Autonomous underwater robot hunter will take on the invasive lionfish Twenty-five years ago, lionfish started invading coastal waters in the Americas, and the species is now causing damage to the local ecosystems from Venezuela, through the Caribbean, and up the East Coast of the United States. Since most of these fish are genetically similar, the theory goes that a few…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
In our last newsletter, we mentioned academics around the world were boycotting South Korea’s KAIST University because researchers there were working on AI-powered weaponry. While the following aren’t weapons, some very interesting surveillance-related applications surfaced this past week that we think are worth the spotlight, considering how much military use of AI has been in the news recently. But I’m behind a wall One of the most…
The last few days, the news has been swirling with talk of researchers worldwide boycotting work with South Korea’s KAIST University, as the university works on developing AI-powered weapons. Boycotters want stricter controls over AI-powered weaponry, and hopefully this pushback by scientists and academics has a powerful influence over weapon development. Now on to other applications that have garnered attention since last Thursday: “Wow, I can get…