Interesting Uses of AI That You May Never Think of
AI Spots 40,000 Prominent Scientists Overlooked by Wikipedia
AI is often criticized for its tendency to perpetuate society’s biases, but it’s equally capable of fighting them. Machine learning is currently being used to scan scientific studies and news stories to identify prominent scientists who aren’t featured on Wikipedia.
This Robot Uses AI to Find Waldo, thereby ruining Where's Waldo
Built by creative agency Redpepper, There’s Waldo zeroes in and finds Waldo with a sniper-like accuracy. The metal robotic arm is a Raspberry Pi-controlled uArm Swift Pro which is equipped with a Vision Camera Kit that allows for facial recognition.
Indian Techie Claims to Have Created First Hindi-Speaking Humanoid
The Indian equivalent of Sophia, the world’s first humanoid, Rashmi uses linguistic interpretation and artificial intelligence to pick up the feeling of a conversation and articulate appropriate responses.
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Object that Sounds
In look, Listen, and Learn and Objects that Sound (to appear at ECCV 2018), we explore this observation by asking: what can be learnt by looking at and listening to a large number of unlabelled videos?
CycleGAN Bikini Fix for Nudes
Adult content recognition with deep neural networks (ACORDE) for example can distinguish between sensitive and non-sensitive content, providing a binary classification result to completely block content containing nudity. However, such a solution can compromise user experience with digital media. An alternative approach is censoring only sensitive regions of an image.
When Recurrent Models Don't Need to be Recurrent
"In this post, we explore the trade-offs between recurrent and feed-forward models. Feed-forward models can offer improvements in training stability and speed, while recurrent models are strictly more expressive. "
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The Technical University of Munich (TUM) had lured Cheng from a Japanese research institute. At TUM he founded the Institute of Cognitive Systems (ICS). With eight employees in a central office on Karlstraße 45, Cheng set to work on his arduous task: recreating the complexities of human skin and wiring it all to a brain.
Harvard & University of Toronto Researchers Apply Deep Generative Models to Inverse Molecular Design
Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling from Harvard University and Alán Aspuru-Guzik from the University of Toronto have successfully applied machine learning models to speed up the materials discovery process.
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