Mar 11, 2020

16 Posts

Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Mar 11, 2020

Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.

Fashion models recently sashayed down Paris Fashion Week catwalks in outfits designed by deep neural nets. Swedish design firm Acne Studios based its 2020 fall/winter men’s line on output from a generative adversarial network.

2 min read
The Batch: Mind-Controlled Robot Hand, Fashions by GAN, Face Recognition Countermeasure, More Realistic Deepfakes, Learning From
Mar 11, 2020

The Batch: Mind-Controlled Robot Hand, Fashions by GAN, Face Recognition Countermeasure, More Realistic Deepfakes, Learning From

The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.

11 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
Mar 11, 2020

Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

2 min read
Conferences in the Time of Covid
Mar 11, 2020

Conferences in the Time of Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.

1 min read
The Batch: Mind-Controlled Robot Hand, Fashions by GAN, Face Recognition Countermeasure, More Realistic Deepfakes, Learning From
Mar 11, 2020

The Batch: Mind-Controlled Robot Hand, Fashions by GAN, Face Recognition Countermeasure, More Realistic Deepfakes, Learning From

The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.

11 min read
Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Mar 11, 2020

Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.

Hoping to keep surveillance capitalists from capitalizing on your face? Safeguard your selfies with a digital countermeasure. Researchers devised a program that subtly alters portrait photos to confuse face recognition models without distorting the image to the human eye.

2 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Mar 11, 2020

AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.

Amputees can control a robotic hand with their thoughts — plus machine learning. University of Michigan researchers developed a system that uses signals from an amputee’s nervous system to control a prosthetic hand.

1 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Mar 11, 2020

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

1 min read
Guest Speaker: Deepfake method syncs up mouth movements with words.
Mar 11, 2020

Guest Speaker: Deepfake method syncs up mouth movements with words.

Deepfake videos in which one person appears to speak another’s words have appeared in entertainment, advertising, and politics. New research ups the ante for an application that enables new forms of both creative expression and

2 min read
Guest Speaker: Deepfake method syncs up mouth movements with words.
Mar 11, 2020

Guest Speaker: Deepfake method syncs up mouth movements with words.

Deepfake videos in which one person appears to speak another’s words have appeared in entertainment, advertising, and politics. New research ups the ante for an application that enables new forms of both creative expression and

2 min read
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Mar 11, 2020

Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.

Fashion models recently sashayed down Paris Fashion Week catwalks in outfits designed by deep neural nets. Swedish design firm Acne Studios based its 2020 fall/winter men’s line on output from a generative adversarial network.

2 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
Mar 11, 2020

Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

2 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Mar 11, 2020

AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.

Amputees can control a robotic hand with their thoughts — plus machine learning. University of Michigan researchers developed a system that uses signals from an amputee’s nervous system to control a prosthetic hand.

1 min read
Conferences in the Time of Covid
Mar 11, 2020

Conferences in the Time of Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.

1 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Mar 11, 2020

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

1 min read

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