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Mine Recognized with 2024 Artificial Intelligence Award from Business Intelligence Group – PR Newswire

MineOS Wins Award for Machine Learning in the 2024 AI Excellence Awards Program

BOSTON and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mine, a pioneering company disrupting the data privacy market, today announced that the Business Intelligence Group has recognized the MineOS platform as a winner in the2024 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards in the Machine Learning category. This prestigious recognition serves as a testament toMineOS's tremendous growth in its mission to innovate and streamline data privacy and governance for the modern enterprise.

With the stack of applications and tools the average organization uses growing substantially in recent years, enterprises are struggling to locate, track, and monitor their data, especially with AI gaining more popularity. This unique challenge, coupled with new data regulations passing across the world, has placed significant demands on the need for an enterprise-grade platform with next-generation AI capabilities like MineOS.

Throughout the past year, the MineOS platform's unique AI-powered data discovery and classification has helped bring never before seen speed and visibility to privacy programs so companies can comply with an ever-evolving regulatory environment. Whereas most legacy privacy solutions require months and resource-intensive scans to compile accurate and continuous data maps, MineOS's machine learning (ML) capabilities dramatically cuts timelines for data inventory insights and accurately identifies and mitigates risks that can leave organizations vulnerable if left undiscovered.

"To be recognized by the Business Intelligence Group for all the work we've put into building our next-generation AI and ML technology to innovate and push data privacy forward is an incredible achievement," said Gal Ringel, CEO and Co-Founder of Mine. "We've always strived to adapt to customers' ever-changing needs in a world of more and more data privacy regulations, and we know this award further showcases our commitment to set a new privacy paradigm that will fit and empower both consumers and companies."

"We are truly honored to recognize Mine with this prestigious award," stated Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer for the Business Intelligence Group. "The unwavering commitment of their team to excellence and their innovative AI applications have catapulted them to this remarkable achievement. Congratulations to the entire organization!"

For more information on MineOS products and services, please visithttps://www.mineos.ai/.

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Powering the privacy programs of hundreds of organizations around the world, from the trail blazers of tomorrow to globally-recognized brands like Reddit and HelloFresh, Mine's mission is to not only give companies the best data privacy & governance tools around but to form meaningful privacy partnerships.From ensuring compliance with global regulations to providing continuous inventory discovery and classifications powered by seamless integrations, MineOS is at the forefront of making data privacy intuitive, automated, and scalable. Headquartered in Tel Aviv and spanning to Boston and Germany, Mine has secured $42.5M in funding from leading investors, including Google's AI fund, Battery Ventures, PayPal Ventures, US insurance giants MassMutual and Nationwide, and more as part of our journey to empower data rights and a more privacy-conscious internet.

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Artificial Intelligence Tops List of Policy Priorities at 2024 Security Hill Day – Security Sales & Integration

From AI and school security to workforce development and tax policy, Security Hill Day serves as crucial advocacy tool for the industry.

Nearly 50 security industry executives met on Capitol Hill March 5-6 for the 2024 Security Hill Day to help educate policymakers about our $110 billion industry that provides nearly two million jobs throughout the United States and Canada and advocate for key policy and legislative priorities.

From artificial intelligence (AI) and school security to workforce development and tax policy, Security Hill Day serves as crucial advocacy tool for the security industry.

While attendees of Security Hill Day covered a wide range of relevant policy priorities, as with most industries, AI remained the hottest topic in meetings on the Hill and with congressional speakers.

In the halls of Congress, the future of AI in the United States has become the most discussed topic in recent memory. On the forefront stands Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.), an advocate in both the private sector and Congress for AI and its potential for positively shaping our future as a country.

Representing Californias 8th Congressional District and having a unique background in AI, Rep. Obernolte has been instrumental in founding the Congressional AI Caucus and maintains an approach to AI policy that greatly aligns with the interests of the security industry.

Rep. Obernolte joined attendees at Security Hill Day for the opening reception and policy dinner, where he spoke about his priorities for the newly formed bipartisan House AI Task Force, its work over the next year and the potential impact of policymaking on AI.

He also received the Security Industry Association (SIA) Legislator of the Year Award for his efforts in this space, which also includes authoring the CREATE AI Act, to help American students and entrepreneurs become leaders in the exciting work of developing AI-driven technologies.

The congressman spoke about bipartisan plan under the task force to focus on driving economic growth, spurring job creation and enhancing national competitiveness while intently focusing on not overregulating AI and protecting American citizens and businesses.

As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, the impact of AI continues to permeate almost every industry. AI-driven technologies are especially critical to todays safety and security applications, driving most recent innovations in the security industry and enabling groundbreaking improvements in capabilities to protect businesses and consumers and bolster public safety.

At Security Hill Day, industry executives also heard from Michael Richards, director of policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center (C_TEC). Roberts provided an update on his work with the U.S. Chamber of Commerces state and federal artificial intelligence portfolio and AI Policy Working Group, which comprises over 100 companies and trade associations, including SIA.

While approaches to AI policy in the U.S. are still being determined, the security industry is poised to work together with policymakers to help ensure new capabilities enabled by AI are harnessed for the betterment of society.

We appreciate the efforts of leaders like Rep. Obernolte and groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerces AI working group for laying the foundation for navigating the complexities of the AI policy landscape.

Colby Williams is the associate director of government relations for the Security Industry Association.

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Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products – FDA.gov

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. AI systems use machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments; abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner; and use model inference to formulate options for information or action. AI includes machine learning, which is a set of techniques that can be used to train AI algorithms to improve performance of a task based on data.

AI has emerged as a transformative force. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. This landing page serves as your gateway to a wealth of information, resources, and insights into the intersection of AI and medical products. Learn more about how the FDA is shaping the future of health care through the responsible and innovative integration of AI.

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Harnessing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence – FDA.gov

By: Robert M. Califf, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs

At the FDA, weve been working for years to anticipate and prepare for the challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and also to harness its potential. Some in the nonscientific community may be surprised by the seemingly sudden amount of attention on AI. But for scientists and regulators, this issue is not newweve seen it coming for a long time, and Id like to catch up with you today on this exciting topic.

AI has the potential to enable major advances in the development of more effective, less risky medical products and more nutritious food. To give you an idea of its impact, consider that since 1995 the FDA has received over 300 submissions for drugs and biological products with AI components, and more than 700 submissions for AI-enabled devices.

Submissions have included aspects related to drug discovery and repurposing, enhancing clinical trial design elements, dose optimization, endpoint/biomarker assessment, and postmarket surveillance. These submissions also cover a growing diversity of medical devices that leverage AI to improve clinical workflows and patient experiences or outcomes in addition to sophisticated prediction algorithms.

And the areas of nutrition and food safety are on the verge of a revolutionary improvement due to the combination of digitization, AI and growth in computing power.

The FDA is also exploring the use of AI technologies to facilitate our internal operations and regulatory processes, which could benefit both agency experts and the public by streamlining workflows and facilitating high quality, novel medical products more quickly reaching the patients who need them.

At its most basic, AI can strengthen our operational systems and bring increased productivity, opportunity, and efficiency to our work, helping us process and analyze complex data faster, including data from medical imaging or digital health technologies, for example. We can free up staff by automating repetitive administrative functions and enable them to focus on more complex meaningful activities to weigh the evidence and arrive at better decisions. Our workforce should also have more time to explain those decisions to the public and learned intermediaries in the biomedical and clinical world.

The AI landscape is expanding every day and there is a lot more to say on this topic. Weve issued: Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together, and I hope youll check it out. The paper reaffirms our commitment to promoting the responsible and ethical development, deployment, use, and maintenance of safe and effective medical products that incorporate or are developed with AI.

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Researchers gave AI an ‘inner monologue’ and it massively improved its performance – Livescience.com

Giving artificial intelligence (AI) systems an "inner monologue" makes them considerably better at reasoning, new research shows.

The method trains AI systems to think before they respond to prompts, just as many people consider what we should say next before we speak. This is different from the way scientists have trained mainstay AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, which don't "think" about what they write or anticipate different possibilities for the next steps in a conversation.

Dubbed "Quiet-STaR," the new method instructs an AI system to generate many inner rationales in parallel before responding to a conversational prompt. When the AI answers prompts, it generates a mixture of these predictions with and without a rationale, printing the best answer which can be verified by a human participant depending on the nature of the question.

Finally, it learns by discarding rationales that proved incorrect. In effect, the training method gives AI agents the capacity to anticipate future conversations and learn from ongoing ones.

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The researchers applied the Quiet-STaR algorithm to Mistral 7B, an open-source large language model (LLM), and posted the results March 14 to the pre-print database arXiv. (The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.)

The Quiet-STaR-trained version of Mistral 7B scored 47.2% on a reasoning test versus 36.3% before any training. It still flunked a school math test, earning a score of 10.9%. But that was nearly double the starting score of 5.9% in the vanilla version.

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Models like ChatGPT and Gemini are built from neural networks collections of machine learning algorithms arranged in a way that mimics the structure and learning patterns of the human brain. However, systems built using this architecture are abysmal at common sense reasoning or contextualization and AI chatbots do not have genuine "understanding."

Past attempts to improve the reasoning capabilities of LLMs have been highly domain-specific and could not be applied to different types of AI models.

The self-taught reasoner (STaR) algorithm, which the researchers used as a basis for their work, is one example of such a training algorithm but is held back by these limitations.

The scientists who developed Quiet-STaR named it that because the principles of STaR can be applied quietly in the background and generally over several different types of LLM, independent of the original training data. Now they want to investigate how techniques like theirs can reduce the gap between neural network-based AI systems and human-like reasoning capabilities.

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The small Caribbean island making a fortune from artificial intelligence – EL PAS USA

In 1988, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) assigned two-letter domains for every country. Spain was given .es, .mx for Mexico and .uk for the United Kingdom. Anguilla didnt realize it at the time, but the little Caribbean island was fortunate to get the .ai top-level domain. Nearly four decades later, the artificial intelligence boom is bringing in much needed income to the island of Anguilla, all because of the .ai domain extension. Big and small companies want to build AI websites using Anguillas .ai domain, which charges for the privilege. Domain registrations and investments now make up a third of Anguillas revenue in this British Overseas Territory about 155 miles (250 kilometers) from Puerto Rico.

Blue seas, white sand beaches and coral reefs are the main attractions of this island, which depends largely on tourism. In 2020, the most expensive domain on the island, expert.ai, sold for 95,000 ($103,300). The real breakthrough came with the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. Within five months, .ai domain registrations soared. Sales nearly quadrupled, says Vince Cate, who manages domain registrations for the Anguillan government. We already represent approximately a third of the government budget, he said.

Every national government manages the rates and renewal periods of its domains, says Gonzalo de la Cruz, from Especialistas Web. In Spain, the cost of each .es domain registration ranges from 1-10 ($1.09-$10.87) and must be renewed every year. Anguilla earned $3 million from domain registrations in January 2024 alone, but Cate estimates that the figure will double by the time theyre due for renewal. We register domains for two years. If we maintain this rate of $3 million per month for new domains, our income will jump to $6 million per month when renewals are required in a years time.

Some AI companies like stability.ai and character.ai have already claimed their domain names. Big players like Google, Meta and X (formerly Twitter) have also staked their claims in the AI domain. In 2023, over 200,000 domain names were registered. Anguillas revenue sources include tourism, offshore banking, and fishing, with a GDP in 2020 topping 275 million ($300 million). Despite the islands small size and population of around 16,000, domain registration revenue is significant. Estimates indicate registrations could bring in 72 million ($78.3 million) by 2025.

Before the trend, and long before ChatGPT, there was a trailblazer acquiring .ai domains. Igor Gabrielan, an AI and robotics enthusiast since childhood, started buying .ai domains in 2011 when registration opened to foreigners. He now owns 750 domains for sale, but hasnt reaped the rewards yet. Despite the many jewels in my collection, the big companies havent contacted me, said Gabrielan. His biggest sale netted him $50,000 in exchange for portal.ai.

Gabrielan only owns one Spanish-language domain name: Amigo.ai. I havent heard of large domains in Spanish, he said. The Spanish acronym for artificial intelligence is IA, and the .ia domain hasnt been assigned to any country.

Anguilla is not the only one cashing in on domain names. In 1994, Chris Clark bought the pizza.com domain name for $20 and sold it in 2008 for $2.6 million. Tuvalu, a small Polynesian country in the South Pacific, earned $50 million in 2000 by selling .tv domains to television channels. An intriguing situation occurred with the .amazon domain when the eight Amazon basin countries vied for control, but ICANN granted it to Amazon, Jeff Bezos multinational internet sales company.

Cate compares Tuvalus .tv domains with Anguillas .ai domains, noting a key difference. Tuvalu works though business partners for .tv domain registrations, while Anguilla manages its registrations internally. Were doing it locally, so the government gets almost all the money. Meanwhile, Gabrielan is confident that the artificial intelligence growth trend will continue and companies will seek him out to buy all the sought-after .ai domains he owns.

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MiR1200 Pallet Jack: Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Pallet Handling – Automation.com

March 19, 2024 - Mobile Industrial Robots A/S (MiR) announced the launch of the MiR1200 Pallet Jack autonomous mobile robot (AMR). With advanced artificial intelligence (AI) pallet detection, powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, MiR1200 Pallet Jack uses 3D vision to identify pallets and do pick up and pallet delivery with unprecedented precision. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack is our latest effort to push the boundaries in autonomous material handling, said Mads Paulin, vice president of R&D at MiR, We believe that the built-in AI detection system is a significant improvement over older detection technologies. Our approach will reduce pick-and-place cycle times, deliver best-in-class pick accuracy and allow us to continuously deliver advanced, AI-based functionality and value to our customers.

Designed to integrate seamlessly into existing MiR AMR fleets and interoperate with MiRs deck load AMRs, the MiR1200 Pallet Jack is a perfect match for large-scale enterprise customers who typically operate more complex workflows with larger fleets and multiple sites. These customers can now turn to MiR as a one-stop shop for material handling. As the latest addition to MiRs wide range of AMRs, the MiR1200 Pallet Jack adds a new application area to our existing solutions for transportation scenarios from small to heavy loads, pallet transportation, and more, said Jean-Pierre Hathout, president of MiR. All robots can be seamlessly managed and integrated via our industry leading fleet management tool, MiR Fleet, and monitored and optimized using MiR Insights.

Thanks to its 3D vision capabilities, the MiR1200 Pallet Jack addresses the challenges many enterprises face with resource-intensive material handling, especially in complex environments that make automation difficult and where automation is needed due to increasing labor shortage. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack can dynamically modify its route to avoid obstacles such as loose objects on the floor or overhead obstacles. It processes a large number of cameras and LiDAR data in real time by accelerating the full stack on the GPU and several other processors built into the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module. The MiR1200 Pallet Jacks ability to navigate effortlessly in tight spaces with minimal changes to the existing infrastructure makes it the perfect fit for optimizing logistics efficiency and ensuring timely delivery of pallets. With MiR1200 Pallet Jack, we have developed a rugged AMR pallet jack that will work in existing customer sites that present unique environmental challenges for automation, Hathout added. In the design of this robot, we have leveraged the accumulated expertise in software from MiR, and high-payload AMRs that are the result of MiRs 2022 merger with AutoGuide, another Teradyne-owned company. In addition, the MiR1200 Pallet Jacks robust tricycle drive system is developed through a partnership with Logitrans, which has 80+ years of experience with material handling.

The MiR1200 Pallet Jack is not only about speed and efficiency. Safety remains a top priority. Safety is in the DNA of every MiR product, Hathout said. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack complies with the latest product safety standards, including ISO3691-4. The fusion of multiple sensor platforms and top-tier safety features provides a much safer alternative to traditional forklifts, pallet trucks and manual pallet jacks. Key features of the MiR1200 Pallet Jack include:

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says some form of artificial general intelligence will come within the next 5 years – TechSpot

In context: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to AI capable of expressing human-like or even super-human reasoning abilities. Also known as "strong AI," AGI would sweep away any "weak" AI currently available on the market and berth a new era of human history.

During this year's GPU Technology Conference, Jensen Huang talked about the future of artificial intelligence technology. Nvidia designs the overwhelming majority of GPUs and AI accelerator chips employed today, and people often ask the company's CEO about AI evolution and future prospects.

Besides introducing the Blackwell GPU architecture and new "superchips" B200 and GB200 for AI applications, Huang discussed AGI with the press. "True" artificial intelligence has been the topic of modern science fiction for decades. Many think the singularity will come sooner rather than later now that lesser AI services are so cheap and accessible to the public.

Huang believes that some form of AGI will arrive within five years. However, science has yet to define general artificial intelligence precisely. Huang insisted that we agree on a specific definition for AGI with standardized tests designed to demonstrate and quantify a software program's "intelligence."

If an AI algorithm can complete tasks "eight percent better than most people," we could proclaim it as a definite AGI contender. Huang suggested that AGI tests could involve legal bar exams, logic puzzles, economic tests, or even pre-med exams.

The Nvidia boos stopped short of predicting when, or if, a human-like reasoning algorithm could arrive, though members of the press continually ask him that very question. Huang also shared thoughts on AI "hallucinations," a significant issue of modern ML algorithms where chatbots convincingly answer queries with baseless, hot (digital) air.

Huang believes that hallucinations are easily avoidable by forcing the AI to do its due diligence on every answer it provides. Developers should add new rules to their chatbots, implementing "retrieval-augmented generation." This process requires the AI to compare the facts discovered in the source with established truths. If the answer turns out to be misleading or non-existent, it should be discarded and replaced with the next one.

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Citizen scientists and AI take a cosmic cruise to discover 430000 new galaxies – Space.com

Citizen scientists and artificial intelligence have come together to discover a staggering 430,000 galaxies scattered across the universe. The massive haul includes 30,000 ring galaxies, which are considered to be the rarest of all possible galaxy shapes.

The discoveries represent the first results from the "GALAXY CRUISE" citizen science project. They were delivered by 10,000 volunteers who scoured through data collected with the Subaru Telescope.

Subaru is an 8.2-meter, optical-infrared telescope located near the summit of the extinct volcano Maunakea on the island of Hawaii. This cutting-edge telescope collects a ton of incredible data so much so that astronomers struggle to sift through it all to spot and classify the shapes of new galaxies. That is where the 10,000 citizen scientists came in, but even this vast army of volunteers needed a little assistance. Hence, they turned to AI for a helping hand.

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"Although AI classification takes less than one hour even for 700,000 galaxies, this work cannot be done without the data collected by GALAXY CRUISE over the past two years," team leader and Waseda University researcher Rhythm Shimakawa said in a statement. "We would like to thank all the citizen astronomers who participated in the project. I hope to see more collaborative outcomes in the future."

Galaxies come in a range of shapes and sizes; often, these morphologies can reveal important galactic history. For instance, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a neat spiral galaxy. Spiral galaxies are named as such because of their long arms that wind out from a bright and dense central concentration of stars, gas and dust. This is the most common type of galaxy in the universe, accounting for approximately 70% to 80% of all galaxies

Far less common are ring galaxies, which account for no more than 1% to 3% of galaxies in the observable universe. In fact, in some estimates of ring galaxy populations, that number can fall as low as 0.1%.

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Ring galaxies get their name because they exhibit dense cores of ancient stars surrounded by distant rings of bright blue young stars. The first ring galaxy discovered by humanity was "Hoag's Object," identified in 1950.

To enable AI to make rapid classifications of galaxies, Shimakawa and colleagues first had to introduce it to catalogs of classifications made by humans. After familiarizing the AI with 20,000 galaxies classified by humans, they let it loose on 700,000 galaxies in the Subaru data.

The AI classified 400,000 galaxies as spiral galaxies and 30,000 of the galaxies as ring galaxies. This finally offers scientists a sample size of these rare galaxies that's large enough to start making a meaningful analyses of the realms.

The team determined that ring galaxies display characteristics that make them intermediates between spiral galaxies and what are known as elliptical galaxies, which have a less defined structure.

The current thinking is that they are created when two spiral galaxies slam together and merge. This violent process is known to wipe out the prominent features of spiral galaxies, particularly their distinctive spiral arms. The theory agrees with recent findings regarding ring galaxy formation, which suggest they are created in a special kind of collision.

When one galaxy hits another head-on like a bullet, it's thought to cause pulses that radiate out from the galactic center of the target galaxy, spurring a ring structure.

The team's findings not only broaden our understanding of an extremely rare galaxy type, but also demonstrate the power of AI to sort through vast catalogs of astronomical data.

The team's research was published in January in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

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