The Tech Community Fights Covid
Tech & Society

The Tech Community Fights Covid

The unfolding Covid-19 crisis calls for individuals and organizations to step up and contribute to the common good. I believe that the tech community has an important role to play in slowing the progress of the virus and shortening the time...

March 18, 20201 min read
The Tech Community Fights Covid
Tech & Society

The Tech Community Fights Covid

The unfolding Covid-19 crisis calls for individuals and organizations to step up and contribute to the common good. I believe that the tech community has an important role to play in slowing the progress of the virus and shortening the time...

March 18, 20201 min read
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20202 min read
Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20202 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20201 min read
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20202 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20201 min read
Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Tech & Society

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.

March 11, 20202 min read
History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage
Tech & Society

History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage

While deep learning is taking us into the future, it’s also opening windows into the past. A Redditor brought 100-year-old silent film footage of New York City into the 21st century by automatically sharpening the picture, boosting the frame rate, and adding color.

March 4, 20201 min read
Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts
Tech & Society

Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts

No more sloppy workouts: AI can correct your form. A home exercise system uses neural nets to analyze your motions and tell you when you perform a move properly, reports The Verge.

March 4, 20201 min read
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
Tech & Society

Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read
How Price Optimization Leads to Better Products and Worse Transparency
Tech & Society

How Price Optimization Leads to Better Products and Worse Transparency

In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power.

March 4, 20201 min read
How Price Optimization Leads to Better Products and Worse Transparency
Tech & Society

How Price Optimization Leads to Better Products and Worse Transparency

In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power.

March 4, 20201 min read
Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts
Tech & Society

Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts

No more sloppy workouts: AI can correct your form. A home exercise system uses neural nets to analyze your motions and tell you when you perform a move properly, reports The Verge.

March 4, 20201 min read
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
Tech & Society

Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read

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