Category: Ai

Lexus’s first autonomous EV has drones and ‘artificial muscle technology’

[ad_1] Lexus leaned into the futuristic theme, which is evident from the vehicle’s “hoodless” form, glass roof and gull-wing (aka DeLorean) doors. Inside, Lexus put gesture controls to use and created AR vehicle info systems. The front seats are meant to feel more like first-class airplane seats, and the backseats use something called “artificial muscle […]

Amazon joins Facebook’s fight against deepfakes

[ad_1] The Challenge will also add two professors, the Technical University of Munich’s Laura Leal-Taixé and the University of Naples Federico II’s Luisa Verdoliva, as academic advisors. At the same time, Facebook is giving researchers some of the samples they need to help spot deepfakes. It’s releasing the first 5,000 example videos out of the […]

NVIDIA’s EGX supercomputer tech can crunch 1.6 terabytes a second

[ad_1] As an example, NVIDIA said Walmart deployed its EGX tech in its Levittown, NY retail lab to improve in-store shopping. It can apparently tell employees to retrieve shopping carts, restock produce and meat, open up checkout lanes and stock shelves. In that application, “Walmart is able to compute in real time more than 1.6 […]

Arca will use AI to soundtrack NYC’s Museum of Modern Art

[ad_1] If you pay a visit to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in the near future, you’ll be awash in artificial intelligence before you’ve even seen an exhibit. Electronic musician Arca (who has produced for Bjork and FKA Twigs) has announced that a piece she wrote using Bronze’s AI creative tool will provide […]

Sony's self-driving 'Sociable Cart' delivers mixed-reality inside, ads outside

[ad_1] Sony's Sociable Cart SC-1 — the autonomous vehicle-cum-party bus designed for theme parks and golf courses — has finally landed. Launching in Japan's Kanucha Bay Resort in Nago City, and the Botanical Garden in Okinawa City, the pilot scheme kicks… [ad_2] Source link

Here’s how Alexa learned to speak Spanish without your help

[ad_1] The first tool studies a handful of “golden utterances” (that is, reference commands suggested by the developers) to learn general syntax and semantics patterns. After that, it produces “rewrite expressions” that themselves create thousands of new yet similar sentences to work from. The system works quickly — you could move from 50 utterances to […]

Your AirPods are going to die

[ad_1] Everyone’s AirPods will die. We’ve got the trick to replacing them.Geoffrey A. Fowler,The Washington Post If you hopped on the AirPod bandwagon early, your earbuds are likely near the end of their life. The Washington Post details what happens when your true wireless audio accessory stops working, including the fact that “battery service” really […]

Microsoft and Lauv launch website focused on mental health

[ad_1] My Blue Thoughts is a concept that started three years ago, when Lauv, whose real name is Ari Leff, installed simple blue boxes at his concerts where attendees could drop pieces of paper with their thoughts. After each concert, Leff (or his team) would share pictures of the collected thoughts to his Instagram. Leff […]

MIT-IBM developed a faster way to train video recognition AI

[ad_1] The trick is in shifting how video recognition models view time. Current models encode the passage of time in a sequence of images, which creates bigger, computationally-intensive models. The MIT-IBM researchers designed a temporal shift module, which gives the model a sense of time passing without explicitly representing it. In tests, the method was […]

Adobe adds new AI tools in Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2020

[ad_1] The full-featured versions of Photoshop and Premiere can be overwhelming, and the methods to reach a desired outcome are rarely obvious. In other words, you really have to know what you’re doing. The Elements versions of the software offer straightforward workflows that avoid obscure menus and hotkeys, as well as a one-time purchase rather […]