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• Can Amazon revolutionise our recycle rates?

• TikTok - Will the US ban it?

• Science on Sunday fun fact

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AI Matters Top News Pick

Amazon's Eco-Friendly Move: Funding AI to Tackle Recycling Challenges

Supporting Women in Green Tech

Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund is backing Glacier, a recycling startup led by CEO Rebecca Hu.

This investment highlights Amazon's focus on empowering women in tech and pushing for better recycling solutions through innovative AI and robotics.

AI Meets Recycling

Glacier is shaking things up in the recycling world by using AI to better sort and process recyclables.

Their tech is set to make recycling more efficient, aiming to bump up the rather low U.S. residential recycling rates.

Big Goals for a Cleaner Future

With this AI boost, Glacier hopes to refine recycling processes and respond to growing demands for sustainable practices.

Amazon's support could be a game-changer in how we handle recyclables, moving towards less waste and more re-use.

Do you think technology can significantly improve our recycling rates?

AI Matters News Highlights

Innovation: A new device called the Poetry Camera combines AI and photography to create poems instead of images, sparking interest in potentially commercializing the open-source project

Legislation: The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a revised bill that mandates the sale of TikTok by its owner ByteDance or faces a ban, with provisions for an extended divestiture period and possible presidential extension

Meta: Meta has launched Llama 3, a new open-source large language model that surpasses industry standards, promising advancements in AI with a commitment to ethical practices and open development​

Microsoft: Microsoft has developed an AI application called VASA-1 which impressively animates still photographs to talk and sing with highly realistic facial expressions

GPT Of The Day

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AI Matters Daily Spotlight

Sunday’s Science - Did You Know?

Mysteries of the Deep Sea Illuminated by AI

Did you know that artificial intelligence is uncovering new mysteries in the ocean's darkest depths?

Recent AI advancements are allowing scientists to explore and analyse underwater environments in ways that were impossible before. One exciting development is the use of AI-driven robots to map uncharted underwater mountains, also known as seamounts, which are biodiversity hotspots that host unknown species and ecosystems.

AI technologies are also helping decipher the complex "language" of dolphins and whales.

By processing and interpreting the vast array of sounds these creatures make, AI is on the brink of enabling us to "talk" to these sophisticated marine mammals, potentially unlocking the secrets of their social interactions and intelligence.

Join us tomorrow for Monday’s Masterclass

AI Matters Bits and Bytes

AI Matters Book Club - April

Dive into the World of AI with Our Monthly Book Club!
This month’s pick is:

Hello World - By Hannah Fry

AI Matters Jargon Buster

“Deep Learning”
Deep Learning is a type of Machine Learning that uses complex neural networks with many layers (hence "deep"). It's especially good at processing large amounts of data, like identifying objects in images or understanding spoken words, mimicking the way humans gain understanding from deep study and repetition

This day in history

21st April 1820
While observing a compass needle scientist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered electromagnetism. This discovery was pivotal for developments within Physics