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Altman less interested in replacing coders, Vinod Khosla talks AGI, and Using SVMs to Detect Stress Levels

Sam Altman says he's "less interested in replacing coders," and more interested in something else. Vinod Khosla discusses AGI and other key topics this week. SVMs in smartwatches can detect stress levels with great accuracy. And even more surprising news is revealed in this edition of AI Minds!

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Jose Nicholas Francisco
April 08, 2025

Welcome (back) to AI Minds, a newsletter about the brainy and sometimes zany world of AI, brought to you by the Deepgram editorial team.

In this edition:

  • 🎥 Robotics Company Figure Introduces Natural Walking

  • 📈 Using SVMs to Detect Stress Levels

  • 🔊A Multimodal AI Approach to Dementia Screening from Speech

  • ⚡ Voice AI in Healthcare: Exploring the Art of the Possible with Deepgram and AWS

  • 🐦 Social Media Buzz: Sam Altman “less interested in replacing coders.”

  • 🐝 Significant Progress in AI, Robotics, and text-to-film AI

  • 📲 Three new, trending AI apps for you!

  • 🎙️ The AI Minds Podcast with Jordan Dearsley, Founder & CEO at Vapi

  • 🧠 Vinod Khosla: Why I Backed OpenAI, AGI, & the Zero to One Team

  • 📘 State of Voice AI Report 2025

  • ☎️ The Benefits of Voice AI Agents for Call Centers

  • ↗️ Glossary: Support Vector Machines (SVMs)

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🎥 Robotics Company Figure Introduces Natural Walking

While many in the YouTube comments poke fun at this robot’s gait, the fact remains that Figure is steadfastly moving towards natural human movements in their robots. What are your thoughts on the progress?

🔍  Using SVMs to Detect Stress Levels and Multimodal AI to Predict Dementia from Speech

Quantum Hybrid Support Vector Machines for Stress Detection in Older Adults- This work introduces a unique technique to address stress detection as an anomaly detection problem that uses quantum hybrid support vector machines. With the help of a wearable smartwatch, the authors mapped baseline sensor reading as normal data and stressed sensor reading as anomaly data using cortisol concentration as the ground truth.

Predicting Cognitive Decline: A Multimodal AI Approach to Dementia Screening from Speech - Multimodal speech analysis methods were applied to the PROCESS challenge, which requires participants to use audio recordings of clinical interviews to predict patients as healthy control, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or dementia and regress the patient's Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) scores.

⚡ Voice AI in Healthcare: Exploring the Art of the Possible with Deepgram and AWS

Voice AI in Healthcare: Exploring the Art of the Possible with Deepgram and AWS - See how Deepgram and AWS enable real-time medical speech-to-text in clinical workflows. Explore a voice-powered assistant demo for note-taking, prescriptions, and scheduling.

🐝 Social Media Buzz: Sam Altman less interested in replacing coders… and more!

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🎙️ The AI Minds Podcast!

Jordan Dearsley, Founder & CEO at Vapi. Vapi deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy.

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