// Google hosted the Google I/O developer conference at its headquarters in California, marking the first in-person event in three years. During the keynote speech, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced not only the Google Pixel 7a smartphone and Pixel Tablet but also unveiled Google Bard, an AI-powered chatbot. The chatbot is now available in over 180 countries worldwide, with the exception of Hong Kong.

Google 今日在加州總部舉辦 Google I/O 開發者大會，3 年來首次以實體會議方式舉行。在主題演講中 CEO Sundar Pichai 除介紹了 Google Pixel 7a 智能手機、Pixel Tablet 平板電腦之外，也發表了Google Bard AI 人工智能聊天機械人，即日開放全球逾 180 個國家地區使用（香港除外）。
https://unwire.hk/2023/05/11/bard-ai-language/life-tech/ //

// 正如預期的那樣，Google 宣布了與其人工智能聊天機器人相關的重大人工智能功能，包括新的編碼工具、多模態能力以及與 Google Docs 和 Sheets 等其他 Google 工具的整合。

As anticipated, Google announced major AI features related to its AI chatbot. This included new tools for coding, multimodal capabilities, and integration with other Google tools like Docs and Sheets. https://mashable.com/article/google-bard-search-announcement-io-2023 //

// Chris Sander, head of the Systems Biology Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and one of the researchers, said that cancer cells often develop slowly in the human body over many years until the disease gains the upper hand. Artificial intelligence systems can attempt to learn from signs in the body that may be related to this gradual change.

哈佛醫學院系統生物學系實驗室負責人 Chris Sander 表示，癌細胞在人體中逐漸發展，往往要經過許多年，而且相當緩慢，直到疾病佔據上風。而人工智能系統可以試圖從人體中可能與這種逐漸變化有關的跡象中學習。」 https://unwire.pro/2023/05/10/ai-can-predict-pancreatic-cancer-three-years-ahead-of-human-doctors/ai/ //

// Invasive BMIs use minimally invasive methods to connect the brain and the machine by puncturing the blood vessels through small incisions, achieving brain-machine connectivity through minimally invasive surgery similar to heart stents, with less trauma than invasive BMIs and higher signal quality than non-invasive BMIs.

介入式腦機接口是通過微創介入方式將血管穿刺小口，透過類似心臟支架的微創手術實現腦機連接，創傷較侵入式腦機接口更小，訊號質素比非侵入式腦機接口更高 http://startupbeat.hkej.com/?p=133684 //

// The US government has announced plans to invest $140 million in establishing 7 new AI research centers in collaboration with academia, businesses, and various government agencies to improve the ethics and trustworthiness of AI in areas such as climate, agriculture and energy, public health, education, and cybersecurity. The government had already released the direction of the AI Right Act last October, which aimed to provide guidelines for tech companies developing AI and automation systems to ensure the rights and safety of American citizens.

美國政府方面表示，將會斥資 1.4 億美元成立 7 個新的人工智能研發中心，與學術界、企業以及政府不同單位合作研究，在氣候、農業和能源、公共衛生、教育和網路安全等範疇提升人工智能的道德和可信程度。而美國政府方面在去年 10 月公佈了《人工智能權利法案》的立法方向，這個法案旨在向科技企業提供人工智能和自動化系統的開發指引，保障美國公民的權利和安全。 https://unwire.pro/2023/05/08/nsf-announces-140-million-investment-in-seven-artificial-intelligence-research-institutes/ai/ //

// 「錢是王道」。在中國，一塊晶片完成一項人工智能訓練任務需要的時間比一塊速度更快的美國晶片多一倍，但仍然可以完成工作。一位行業消息人士表示:「到那個時候，你需要花費2000萬美元，而不是1000萬美元來進行訓練。這是不是有點困難？是的，但這是否意味著阿里巴巴或百度無法解決這個問題？不，這不是問題。」

Money helps. A chip in China that takes twice as long to finish an AI training task than a faster U.S. chip can still get the work done. “At that point, you’ve got to spend $20 million instead of $10 million to train it,” said one industry source who requested anonymity because of agreements with partners. “Does that suck? Yes it does. But does that mean this is impossible for Alibaba or Baidu? No, that’s not a problem.” https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-05-03/chinas-ai-industry-barely-slowed-by-us-chip-export-rules //

// Accenture has recently released the report “Reinventing Enterprise Operations”, which surveyed 1,700 senior executives from 1,657 institutions to analyze the maturity of institutions’ operations in different areas. According to the report, almost 90% of enterprises are using AI technology to improve operational resilience to varying degrees, with the most popular applications including using language models for financial forecasting (89%) and discovering suppliers (88%). Moreover, 73% of enterprises said that AI is their top priority for digital investment.

Accenture 最近發表《Reinventing Enterprise Operations》報告，訪問了 1,657 個機構的 1,700 名高層人員，分析機構在不同範疇的營運成熟程度。據報告顯示，有接近九成的企業正在不同程度上使用 AI 技術來提升營運韌性，其中最普及的應用包括使用語言模型進行財務預測 (89%) 和發掘供應商 (88%)。其中更有 73% 企業表示以 AI 作為最優先的數碼投資項目。 https://unwire.pro/2023/05/03/accenture-2/ai/ //

// 一位谷歌的高級軟件工程師發表了一篇評論，指出這家互聯網搜索巨頭正在失去在人工智能領域的領先地位，而獨立研究人員在開源社區中使用人工智能技術取得了快速而出乎意料的進展。

A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge in artificial intelligence to the open-source community, where many independent researchers use AI technology to make rapid and unexpected advances. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-05/google-staffer-claims-in-leaked-ai-warning-we-have-no-secret-sauce //

// 避免無人區 – 當我們把大部分工作都轉移到機器上時，人就不再掌控。存在一個無人區，人仍需要做出決策，但卻不能掌握結果。在這個光譜的遠端，使用者感覺自己就像是機器操作員：只是按下按鈕，機器就在工作。操作機器並沒有太多技藝可言。

Avoid No man’s land – once we offload the majority of the work to a machine, the human is no longer in control. There’s a No man’s land where the human is still required to make decisions, but they’re not in control of the outcome. At the far end of the spectrum, users feel like machine operators: they’re just pressing buttons and the machine is doing the work. There isn’t much craft in operating a machine. https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots //