Jul 24, 2019
Africa Rising
Africa isn’t known as a tech hub, but the continent’s embrace of AI is putting it in the spotlight. African researchers lately have turned to AI to tackle everything from crop failure to bureaucratic red tape.
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Jul 24, 2019
Do GANs Dream of Moving Pictures?
Generative adversarial networks make amazingly true-to-life pictures, but their output largely has been limited to still images — until now. Get ready for generated videos.
Jul 24, 2019
Wiring the Brain for AI
Chips that connect the human brain to outboard equipment have given paralyzed patients rudimentary control over robotic limbs. Elon Musk envisions brain-computer interfaces that wouldn’t just rehabilitate people but link them to artificial intelligence.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Wiring the Brain for AI, Diagnosing Cancer, Generating Realistic Videos, Innovating in Africa
I recently met an engineer at a large travel agency who had built a fun ML project for sending guests greetings. This was one of the company’s first forays into ML. The project did not generate any revenue, and their managers discouraged them from doing more work on ML.
Jul 17, 2019
Upping the Ante
Artificial intelligence has bested humanity at chess, Go, even StarCraft II. But those games are played against a single opponent in one sitting. Poker requires neural nets to learn skills like tracking a table full of players and maximizing winnings over many games.
Jul 31, 2019
Da Vinci Code
Artificial intelligence is fueling artistic experimentation from painting to music. Now creatives can spend less time keeping up with the expanding AI palette and more time making digital masterpieces.
Jul 17, 2019
More Learning From Less Data
Neural networks surpass human abilities in many tasks, with a caveat: Typical supervised learning requires lots of labeled data. New research is pushing back that threshold.
Jul 17, 2019
Excitement Recognition
Video highlights are as integral to sports as endorsement deals for star athletes. Now AI is picking the most exciting moments and compiling them quicker than humans.
Jul 17, 2019
Emotional Intelligence
Nobody wants to sound like a robot over the phone. But maybe a computer can help you bring more humanity to your phone manner.
Jul 17, 2019
The GAN Reveals Its Knowledge
Generative adversarial networks clearly learn to extract meaningful information about images. After all, they dream up pictures that, to human eyes, can be indistinguishable from photos. Researchers at DeepMind tapped that power, building a GAN that generates feature vectors from images.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Shows Emotional Intelligence, Machines Beat Humans at Poker, Watson Takes Up Tennis, GANs Reveal What They’ve Learned
My stash of new blank notebooks just arrived in the mail. I have a weakness for stationery. I always feel that if only I had the perfect pen and notebook, I might have better ideas.
Jul 10, 2019
New! Improved! Text Recognition
The ability to recognize text is useful in contexts from ecommerce to augmented reality. But existing computer vision systems fare poorly when a single image contains characters of diverse sizes, styles, angles, and backgrounds along with other objects...