By using an artificially intelligent algorithm to predict patient mortality, a research team from Stanford University is hoping to improve the timing of end-of-life care for critically ill patients. After parsing through 2 million records, the researchers identified 200,000 patients suitable for the project. The researchers were “agnostic” to disease type, disease stage, severity of Read more about New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy[…]

In a third test attempting to assess Google Photos’ view of people, WIRED also uploaded a collection of more than 10,000 images used in facial-recognition research. The search term “African american” turned up only an image of grazing antelope. Typing “black man,” “black woman,” or “black person,” caused Google’s system to return black-and-white images of Read more about When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind – it’s hard to take an AI to account[…]

a paper by Nicholas Carlini and David Wagner of the University of California Berkeley has explained off a technique to trick speech recognition by changing the source waveform by 0.1 per cent. The pair wrote at arXiv that their attack achieved a first: not merely an attack that made a speech recognition SR engine fail, Read more about Boffins tweak audio by 0.1% to fool speech recognition engines[…]

NEMESIS, according to Crose, can help spot symbols that have been co-opted by hate groups to signal to each other in plain sight. At a glance, the way NEMESIS works is relatively simple. There’s an “inference graph,” which is a mathematical representation of trained images, classified as Nazi or white supremacist symbols. This inference graph Read more about This Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI to Find Hate Symbols on Twitter[…]

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, computer scientists Ani Nenkova and Yinfei Yang, of Google and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, describe a new machine learning approach to classifying written journalism according to a formalized idea of “content density.” With an average accuracy of around 80 percent, their system Read more about AI System Sorts News Articles By Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information[…]

A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text. The system is Google’s second official generation of the technology, which consists of two deep neural networks. The first network translates the text Read more about Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans[…]

his month the Canadian government is launching a pilot program to research and predict suicide rates in the country using artificial intelligence. The pilot will mine Canadians’ social media posts “in order to identify patterns associated with users who discuss suicide-related behavior,” according to a recently published contract document. Source: Canada Is Using AI to Read more about Canada to use AI to Study ‘Suicide-Related Behavior’ on Social Media[…]

In a research paper presented in December through a workshop at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) and made available last week through ArXiv, a team of researchers from Google discuss a technique for creating an adversarial patch. This patch, sticker, or cutout consists of a psychedelic graphic which, when placed Read more about Using stickers in the field of view to fool image recognition AIs[…]

olgens KLM worden wekelijks 30.000 gesprekken gevoerd door de 250 socialmediamedewerkers. De luchtvaartmaatschappij wordt wekelijks ruim 130.000 keer genoemd op social media. Gemiddeld bestaat een gesprek tussen KLM en een klant uit vijf tot zes vragen en antwoorden. De veelgestelde vragen die met behulp van kunstmatige intelligentie automatisch kunnen worden beantwoord, worden meestal aan het Read more about KLM uses AI to answer questions on social media[…]

“Our machines can very easily recognise you among at least 2 billion people in a matter of seconds,” says chief executive and Yitu co-founder Zhu Long, “which would have been unbelievable just three years ago.” Yitu’s Dragonfly Eye generic portrait platform already has 1.8 billion photographs to work with: those logged in the national database Read more about China’s big brother: how artificial intelligence is catching criminals and advancing health care[…]

The neural network is trained on 15,000 signals from the Kepler dataset that have been previously verified as planets or non-planets. A smaller test set with new, unseen data was fed to the neural network and it correctly identified true planets from false positives to an accuracy of about 96 per cent.The researchers then applied Read more about AI helps find planets in other solar systems[…]

This week, Google released a tool called DeepVariant that uses deep learning to piece together a person’s genome and more accurately identify mutations in a DNA sequence.Built on the back of the same technology that allows Google to identify whether a photo is of a cat or dog, DeepVariant solves an important problem in the Read more about Google Taught an AI to Make Sense of the Human Genome[…]

Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016. Set in a dystopian world with mass unemployment, the movie attracted many fans, with one viewer describing it as amusing but strange. But the most notable aspect of the film involves its creation: an artificial-intelligence (AI) bot wrote Sunspring’s screenplay. ome researchers have already used Read more about AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators[…]

There’s a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But it’s not really Gadot’s body, and it’s barely her own face. It’s an approximation, face-swapped to look like she’s performing in an existing incest-themed porn video.The video was created with a machine learning algorithm, using easily accessible materials and open-source Read more about AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked – Motherboard[…]

In the paper, DeepMind describes how a descendant of the AI program that first conquered the board game Go has taught itself to play a number of other games at a superhuman level. After eight hours of self-play, the program bested the AI that first beat the human world Go champion; and after four hours Read more about DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess (and shogi and go) player in a few hours using generic reinforcement learning[…]

Coditany of Timeness” is a convincing lo-fi black metal album, complete with atmospheric interludes, tremolo guitar, frantic blast beats and screeching vocals. But the record, which you can listen to on Bandcamp, wasn’t created by musicians.Instead, it was generated by two musical technologists using a deep learning software that ingests a musical album, processes it, Read more about This frostbitten black metal album was created by an artificial intelligence[…]

I’m excited to announce the initial release of Mozilla’s open source speech recognition model that has an accuracy approaching what humans can perceive when listening to the same recordings. We are also releasing the world’s second largest publicly available voice dataset, which was contributed to by nearly 20,000 people globally. […] This is why we Read more about Announcing the Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Dataset[…]

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs.More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a ‘child’ that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts.The Google researchers automated Read more about Google’s AI Built its own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans[…]

Air Help, het claimbedrijf voor vliegtuigpassagiers, zet kunstmatige intelligentie in om real-time te beslissen of een claim sterk genoeg is om in te dienen. De juridische bot Lara bepaalt of vertragingen en annuleringen conform de Europese regelgeving in aanmerking komen voor een vergoeding.De bot is geprogrammeerd om onder andere de vluchtstatus, luchthavenstatistieken en weerrapporten te Read more about AirHelp zet volgende stap in kunstmatige intelligentie[…]

AWS Announces Five New Machine Learning Services and the World’s First Deep Learning-Enabled Video Camera for Developers Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to build, train, and deploy machine learning models AWS DeepLens is the world’s first deep learning-enabled wireless video camera built to give developers hands-on experience with machine learning Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, Amazon Read more about Amazon Announces Five New Machine Learning Services and the World’s First Deep Learning-Enabled Video Camera for Developers[…]

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas. As the team of six researchers explained in their arXiv paper this month, people who want to stay private often blur their photos, not knowing that Read more about Boffins craft perfect ‘head generator’ to beat facial recognition[…]

Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how Read more about Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported[…]

A team of researchers from the University of Lyon, Purdue and Ubisoft have published a paper showing what may well be the future of creating video game worlds: an AI that is able to construct most of its own 3D landscapes. Similar to Nvidia’s work that is able to conjure its own celebrity mugshots, the Read more about Using Generative Adverserial Networks to create terrain maps[…]