Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.
Generative Modeling

Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.

A digital doppelgänger of Star Trek’s original star will let fans chat with him — possibly well beyond his lifetime. AI startup StoryFile built a lifelike videobot of actor William Shatner, best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek.

March 31, 20211 min read
Chatbots Against Depression: The Trevor Project used GPT-2 to train crisis counselors.
Generative Modeling

Chatbots Against Depression: The Trevor Project used GPT-2 to train crisis counselors.

A language model is helping crisis-intervention volunteers practice their suicide-prevention skills. The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that operates a 24-hour hotline for LGBTQ youth, uses a “crisis contact simulator” to train its staff in how to talk with troubled teenagers.

March 24, 20211 min read
Chatbots Against Depression: The Trevor Project used GPT-2 to train crisis counselors.
Generative Modeling

Chatbots Against Depression: The Trevor Project used GPT-2 to train crisis counselors.

A language model is helping crisis-intervention volunteers practice their suicide-prevention skills. The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that operates a 24-hour hotline for LGBTQ youth, uses a “crisis contact simulator” to train its staff in how to talk with troubled teenagers.

March 24, 20211 min read
Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.
Generative Modeling

Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.

What’s creepier than images from the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who? Images generated by a network designed to visualize what goes on in peoples’ brains while they watch Doctor Who.

March 24, 20212 min read
Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.
Generative Modeling

Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.

What’s creepier than images from the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who? Images generated by a network designed to visualize what goes on in peoples’ brains while they watch Doctor Who.

March 24, 20212 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Generative Modeling

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Generative Modeling

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.
Generative Modeling

Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.

The University of Hong Kong, and Cornell University to create Neural Body, a procedure that generates novel views of a single human character based on shots from only a few angles.

March 10, 20212 min read
Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.
Generative Modeling

Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.

The University of Hong Kong, and Cornell University to create Neural Body, a procedure that generates novel views of a single human character based on shots from only a few angles.

March 10, 20212 min read
Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
Generative Modeling

Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.

Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.

March 10, 20211 min read
Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
Generative Modeling

Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.

Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.

March 10, 20211 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Generative Modeling

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Generative Modeling

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read

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