Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
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Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
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Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.

A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.

April 21, 20212 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
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Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
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Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
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Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

April 14, 20212 min read
Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
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Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

April 14, 20212 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Tech & Society

Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Can Tech Regain the Public’s Trust?
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Can Tech Regain the Public’s Trust?

Each year, the public relations agency Edelman produces a report on the online public’s trust in social institutions like government, media, and business. The latest Edelman Trust Barometer contains a worrisome finding...

April 7, 20212 min read
Can Tech Regain the Public’s Trust?
Tech & Society

Can Tech Regain the Public’s Trust?

Each year, the public relations agency Edelman produces a report on the online public’s trust in social institutions like government, media, and business. The latest Edelman Trust Barometer contains a worrisome finding...

April 7, 20212 min read
De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.
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De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.

ImageNet now comes with privacy protection.What’s new: The team that manages the machine learning community’s go-to image dataset blurred all the human faces pictured in it and tested how models trained on the modified images on a variety of image recognition tasks.

April 7, 20212 min read
De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.
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De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.

ImageNet now comes with privacy protection.What’s new: The team that manages the machine learning community’s go-to image dataset blurred all the human faces pictured in it and tested how models trained on the modified images on a variety of image recognition tasks.

April 7, 20212 min read
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
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New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
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New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.
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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
Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.
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Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.

U.S. authorities are investigating Tesla’s self-driving technology. Federal regulators launched a probe of nearly two dozen accidents, some of them fatal, that involved Tesla vehicles equipped for self-driving.

March 31, 20212 min read

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