May 15, 2019
Data wranglers have tried bulking up training data sets with synthetically generated images, but such input often fails to capture real-world variety. Researchers propose a way to generate labeled data for visual tasks that aims to bring synthetic and real worlds into closer alignment.
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A first for my three-month-old daughter Nova: an outing to the park. As my mother and I watched her staring at a tree. I realized what a novel experience it must be to see a tree close-up for the first time.
May 08, 2019
The usual ways to plot a course from one place to another typically entail a trade-off between economy of motion and computation time. Researchers instead used deep learning to find efficient paths quickly.
May 08, 2019
If digital assistants had feet, their Achilles heel would be requiring users to remember commands that invoke new skills. Amazon proposes a way to train systems like Alexa to learn new domains incrementally.
May 08, 2019
The technique known as attention has yielded spectacular results in speech and natural language tasks. Now researchers have shown that it can improve image recognizers as well.
May 08, 2019
A California grocer is stocking produce grown by robots, a sign of AI’s growing presence in agriculture.
May 08, 2019
Need a quick wardrobe upgrade? Image generation to the rescue! This research project automatically visualizes small changes to clothing that make the wearer look more fashionable.
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On Monday, I delivered a keynote via teleconference for Dubai's AI Everything conference. It was inspiring to see so many governments, businesses, and social enterprises coming together to talk about AI.
May 01, 2019
AI tools that help police and courts make decisions about detention, probation, and sentencing have “serious shortcomings," an AI industry consortium warns.
May 01, 2019
AI is poised to revolutionize diagnosis of eye disease. Articles are piling up in scientific journals heralding computer vision’s success in detecting conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, a common condition that can cause blindness if it’s not treated in time.
May 01, 2019
Never mind Spotify, here's MuseNet — a model that spins music endlessly in a variety of styles.
May 01, 2019
Harry Potter’s magical cloak made him invisible to his Hogwarts colleagues. Now researchers have created a sort of invisibility shield to hide people from computer vision.