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Beauty is in the brain: AI reads brain data, generates personally attractive images
Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive. The device demonstrated this knowledge by its ability to create new portraits that were tailored to be found personally ...
Computer Sciences
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MeInGame: A deep learning method to create videogame characters that look like real people
In recent years, videogame developers and computer scientists have been trying to devise techniques that can make gaming experiences increasingly immersive, engaging and realistic. These include methods to automatically create ...
The 2021 AI Index: Major growth despite the pandemic
The last decade was a pivotal one for the AI industry, and 2020 saw AI substantially increase its impact on the world despite the chaos brought about by the COVID pandemic: Technologists made significant strides in massive ...
Machine learning & AI
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Researchers' robots designed to avoid environmental dangers, deliver data quickly
A University of Texas at Dallas research group has developed an autonomous robotic team of devices that can be used at hazardous or difficult-to-reach sites to make surveys and collect data—providing more and faster insights ...
Robotics
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Azure Percept helps Microsoft users make the most of edge AI
Edge computing allows an increasing number of standalone mobile devices to perform tasks such as image recognition, response to voice commands and textual translation, without access to the cloud. During its 2021 Ignite digital ...
US lagging in critical artificial intelligence: panel
The United States is dangerously behind in artificial intelligence critical to its future including national security, according to a commission that includes a former head of Google and the future chief of Amazon.
Business
Mar 02, 2021
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An open-source machine learning framework to carry out systematic reviews
When scientists carry out research on a given topic, they often start by reviewing previous study findings. Conducting systematic literature reviews or meta-analyses can be very challenging and time consuming, as there are ...
Chatbots that resurrect the dead: Legal experts weigh in on 'disturbing' technology
It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and machine learning, the proposed chatbot would bring our digital persona back to life for ...
Business
Mar 02, 2021
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A robot that analyzes shoppers' behavior
Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand distribution based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stocktaking. Their research was ...
Robotics
Mar 02, 2021
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Machine learning revolutionizes methods to quantify the terrestrial biosphere
Researchers from the University establish a new methodology to improve, from space and through machine learning, the observation and analysis of the terrestrial biosphere. This statistical approach will represent a significant ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 01, 2021
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The current pandemic highlights how remote healthcare robots could be beneficial in the future
Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That's the idea behind 3-D structural-sensing ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 27, 2021
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Explainable AI: A must for nuclear nonproliferation, national security
We've all met people so smart and informed that we don't understand what they're talking about. The investment advisor discussing derivatives, the physician elaborating about B cells and T cells, the auto mechanic talking ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 26, 2021
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A deep learning technique to solve Rubik's cube and other problems step-by-step
Colin G. Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, recently developed a deep-learning technique that can learn a so-called "fitness function" from a set of sample solutions to a problem. This technique, ...
AI identifies social bias trends in Bollywood, Hollywood movies
Babies whose births were depicted in Bollywood films from the 1950s and 60s were more often than not boys; in today's films, boy and girl newborns are about evenly split. In the 50s and 60s, dowries were socially acceptable; ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 25, 2021
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Reinforcement learning algorithms score higher than humans, other AI systems at classic video games
A team of researchers at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing classic video games than human players or other AI systems. In their paper published in ...
Development of child abuse response and decision making support system employing AI
Child abuse has continued to rise in recent years, with the number of child abuse reports reaching 133,778 cases in FY2017, or some 12 times the FY1999 level. However, there is an extreme shortage of staff, especially child ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 25, 2021
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AI is killing choice and chance—changing what it means to be human
The history of humans' use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 24, 2021
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Revive the map: 4-D building reconstruction with machine learning
A research team from Skoltech and FBK (Italy) has presented a methodology to derive 4-D building models using historical maps and machine learning. The implemented method relies on geometric, neighborhood, and categorical ...
Engineering
Feb 24, 2021
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AI facial analysis is scientifically questionable. Should we be using it for border control?
Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries.
Security
Feb 24, 2021
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AI predicts if storms will cause blackouts many days in advance
In Finland, stormy weather can happen at any time of year. This is an issue because Finland is heavily forested, and falling trees can knock out power lines and disable transformers, causing power blackouts for hundreds of ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 24, 2021
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