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Welcome back to The Daily Update — Here’s today’s menu:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Researchers train AI to help detect breast cancer

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Spectre — An AI-powered shutter for your iPhone camera

📸 Business Spotlight: BMW saves more than $1 million a year with AI

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Researchers train AI to help detect breast cancer

Researchers from Cardiff University have developed an AI system that may help doctors detect cancer. The system could help improve the accuracy of medical diagnostics which could lead to earlier breast cancer detection.

Hantao Liu from Cardiff University hopes that the system will support radiologists’ decision making.

Liu said his team worked with radiologists in hospitals in Wales and England and recorded the eye movements of radiologists reading medical images. His team fed this data to the AI system to learn how to survey images like a radiologist.

The new technology aims to make radiologists more responsive rather than replacing them, especially given the 30% shortage of radiology consultants across the UK.

Click here to learn more.

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Spectre — An AI-powered shutter for your iPhone camera

Don’t let the technical limitations of your phone stop you from taking your best photos. Spectre is an AI-powered shutter that turns your iPhone into a professional camera. You can create stunning long exposures right from Spectre’s mobile app.

Spectre features cutting edge computational photography technologies including:

• Computer aided auto-stabilization

• AI scene detection (see how this can create beautiful light trails at night below)

• Intelligent light exposure

Click here to learn more. You can download Spectre for free in the App Store.

📸 Business Spotlight: BMW saves more than $1 million a year with AI

As part of an industry-wide trend, the BMW Group is turning to AI to create a more efficient manufacturing process. BMW has upgraded its Spartanburg, South Carolina plant over the past few years to include new AI capabilities.

Robots weld between 300 and 400 metal studs onto the frame of every SUV. About half a million studs are applied by machines and managed by AI everyday.

AI technology also checks to ensure that every stud is precisely placed. If a stud is misplaced, the system tells the robots to correct it without any human intervention.

According to BMW Group Manager Curtis Tingle, the AI stud correction laser has already saved the company more than $1 million a year. The technology has allowed BMW to remove six workers from the line and redeploy them to other jobs in the factory.

The Spartanburg factory produces about 60% of all BMWs sold in the U.S., which is more than 1,500 vehicles produced daily.

Click here to learn more.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Japan: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to develop a supercomputer to advance the country’s AI industry.

• ‘Godfather of AI’: Renowned AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI already has or will have emotions.

• OpenAI: ChatGPT app has been released for Android.

• Coral: Cohere launches AI knowledge assistant designed for enterprise business use. It aims to provide tailored responses to knowledge workers based on industry-specific data.

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