Google's New AI Pathways More Like a Mammalian Brain, Health Canada will Accept More AI/ML Devices, and More!

AWS Unveils Four New Storage Services to Improve Data Management

(USA) AWS unveiled four new storage services and capabilities at its annual re:Invent conference, aimed at providing additional options, lowering prices, and assisting customers in better protecting their data. The first option is a new Amazon S3 Glacier storage class that is meant to provide archived data access in milliseconds. According to AWS, clients can achieve the lowest-cost storage in the cloud with this storage class for data that is kept long-term and seldom accessed, but allows quick retrieval when required.

More AI/ML Medical devices to be Accepted by Health Canada

(Canada) Since 2018, Health Canada has been working on improving its regulatory framework to better promote digital health technology, particularly medical devices. Artificial intelligence, software as a medical device, cybersecurity, medical device interoperability, wireless medical devices, mobile medical apps, and telemedicine are among the key areas of attention. To achieve this aim, Health Canada formed the Digital Health Division under the Medical Devices Bureau and has increased its efforts to develop in-house expertise.

AI/ML medical devices have the potential to transform the healthcare sector since they continually learn from and improve on their performance using real-world data after being released to the market. However, such medical devices are challenging to regulate since Health Canada requires a system to guarantee the medical devices' safety and efficacy as they "adapt" over time.

Twitch will utilize ML to Detect People Evading Bans

(USA) Twitch is stepping up its anti-harassment efforts with a new tool that utilizes machine learning to detect those who may be attempting to circumvent prohibitions. It's the company's newest innovation to tackle things like hate raids, where trolls hurl vile remarks into broadcasters' conversations.

Suspicious User Detection is a new tool that can identify individuals as "likely" or "possible" persons who have avoided bans from a streamer's channel. The machine learning algorithm that powers the program identifies possible evaders by analyzing factors like their activity and account attributes and comparing that information to accounts that have been banned from a streamer's channel.

Google's New AI Pathways Is More Like a Mammalian Brain

(USA) Google introduced Pathways, a new AI Architecture that behaves similarly to the human brain and can learn faster than the existing model. Google introduced a new AI architecture that significantly enhances Google's AI processing capability. The new AI architecture is a single model that can be trained to do millions of tasks and, according to Google, is similar to a mammalian brain. According to Google's statement, the current state of AI is to train a machine to perform one thing really well, such as detect photographs or comprehend animal sounds. To understand sight and sound, two distinct AI models would be required to complete the two jobs.