Making life a little easier after loss It’s difficult after losing a limb to become accustomed to prosthetics. It’s obviously very different than the limb a person lost, one that naturally and easily responds to what the brain tells it to do. With innovations in prosthetics, however, ease of use is on the rise. By using machine learning, researchers are able to…
The environment and technology are sometimes at odds, but they don’t always have to be. New technologies can help protect and save our environment. Here are four ways technology is working to do just that. Rainforest Connection The Brazilian Tembé people live on and own land in the rainforest. In recent years, they’ve had to work hard to patrol their…
Gentler on the eye One of the most popular AI/ML news stories in the past two week was Nvidia’s use of deep learning to turn regular videos into slow-motion videos. Slowing down a video that wasn’t initially filmed as a slow-motion video creates a choppy and hard-to-watch sequence. With this new application, though, the system is able to predict what missing…
When you think about artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture, a couple applications likely come to mind, but there are a lot of ways AI and machine learning technology are intertwining themselves in agricultural and farming products. Here are some areas that have experienced recent innovations: Chickens Chickens are usually most vocal in the morning, chicken farmers say. At night or…
Applications of AI and ML range from frivolous to serious, and a lot of applications these last two weeks lean toward the more serious, but let’s start with something somewhat frivolous. The world’s weather encapsulated in Google’s terrarium Imagine there’s a little terrarium in your living room that can mimic the current conditions of any place around the world. Just ask it to show…
You’ve likely heard key business phrases like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, neural networks, adversarial neural networks, and the like. These phrases are all the rage right now, and for good reason since these technologies are revolutionizing business and industry. So what if you want to jump on the bandwagon and introduce this new tech to your…
Your gait is your tell Researchers have developed a new way to identify you: they can tell who you are by the way you walk. The tech evaluates 24 different factors in your gait and is surprisingly accurate—it has a 99 percent accuracy rating. And if you’re trying to fake the way someone else walks, it won’t work. The system can root you…
Last week we were impressed with some of the AI announcements and demonstrations at Google’s I/O developer conference, most notably the very lifelike phone calls made by Google’s assistant, placing both a hair appointment and a dinner appointment. It was so lifelike it sparked a stinging rebuttal by several people concerned with ethics. Now, Google says it’ll have the bot identify itself when it places…
A lot has happened recently in the AI and machine learning realm, most notably a new academic boycott: the highly acclaimed journal Nature, which has one of the highest impact factors for academic journals, is aiming to start a closed-access machine learning journal, and some big names in the space, like Ian Goodfellow, Jeff Dean, and Yoshua Bengio, don’t like it. By signing…
6 Ways AI Is Making the World a More Secure Place By Natalie Daelemans Home Security Cameras There are lots of companies out there selling home security systems designed to keep your house safe from intruders. However, the cameras these systems use can be pretty limited. They detect motion and pick up sounds, but then send alerts to you—the human—to…