Jun 19, 2019
Tech giants have slowed down their hiring for pure AI research. But don’t let that cool your ambitions. A journalist spoke with six industry insiders about hiring trends. His sources said their companies no longer are building huge research teams. Instead, they’re staffing up AI engineering.
Jun 19, 2019
Images produced by generative adversarial networks can be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a GAN-made 3D representation could be worth a million.
Jun 19, 2019
Neuroscientists developed a system that, they say, can detect subtle signs of psychosis in conversational speech.
Jun 19, 2019
Typical deep reinforcement learning requires millions of training iterations as the network stumbles around in search of the right solution. New research suggests that AI can learn faster by considering its mistakes.
Jun 19, 2019
U.S. representatives mulled over legal precedents for — and impediments to — regulating the realistic computer-generated videos known as deepfakes.
Jun 19, 2019
Drone maker DJI released a toy robot tank that shoots splattering pellets, skitters on omnidirectional wheels, and learns to navigate the playroom battlefield.
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I spoke last week at re:MARS, Amazon's conference focusing on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. I heard great talks from Jeff Bezos, Kate Darling, Ken Goldberg, Marc Raibert, and others.
Jun 12, 2019
The most widely used image-recognition systems are better at identifying items from wealthy households than from poor ones.
Jun 12, 2019
Generative adversarial networks can synthesize images to help train computer vision systems. But GANs are compute-hungry and don’t always produce realistic output. Now there’s a more efficient and true-to-life alternative.
Jun 12, 2019
Here’s a conundrum: Deep learning could help address a variety of intractable problems, climate change among them. Yet neural networks can consume gargantuan quantities of energy, potentially dumping large amounts of heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
Jun 12, 2019
Another week, another way to make deepfakes. A team at Samsung recently proposed a model that generates talking-head videos by imposing facial landmarks over still images. Now a different team offers one that makes an onscreen speaker say anything you can type.
Jun 05, 2019
In self-driving cars, the laser-radar hybrid known as lidar senses surrounding objects to determine the path of a vehicle. In drones, it’s being used to see through forests to evaluate the impact of climate change on the ground.