Category: Artificial Intelligence

How IBM Watson saved the life of a woman dying from cancer, exec says – Business Insider

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“There’s a 60-year-old woman in Tokyo. She was at the University of Tokyo. She had been diagnosed with leukemia six years ago. She was living, but not healthy. So the University of Tokyo ran her genomic sequence through Watson and it was able to ascertain that they were off by one thing. Actually, she had Read more about How IBM Watson saved the life of a woman dying from cancer, exec says – Business Insider[…]

AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine Intelligence And Deep Learning Accelerators

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AMD is announcing a new series of Radeon-branded products today, targeted at machine intelligence (AI) and deep learning enterprise applications, called Radeon Instinct. As its name suggests, the new Radeon Instinct line of products are comprised of GPU-based solutions for deep learning, inference, and training. The new GPUs are also complemented by a free, open-source library Read more about AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine Intelligence And Deep Learning Accelerators[…]

Chicago Face Database

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The Chicago Face Database was developed at the University of Chicago by Debbie S. Ma, Joshua Correll, and Bernd Wittenbrink. The CFD is intended for use in scientific research. It provides high-resolution, standardized photographs of male and female faces of varying ethnicity between the ages of 17-65. Extensive norming data are available for each individual Read more about Chicago Face Database[…]

TensorFlow — Googles’ Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence

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TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile Read more about TensorFlow — Googles’ Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence[…]

Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language

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If you can translate from A to B and from B to C can you translate from A to C without learning the translations directly? Well yes you can. So the translate AI has created its’ own language B (we think) that can function as a midpoint between not only A and C, but also Read more about Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language[…]

Miles Deep – AI Porn Video Editor

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Using a deep convolutional neural network with residual connections, Miles Deep quickly classifies each second of a pornographic video into 6 categories based on sexual act with 95% accuracy. Then it uses that classification to automatically edit the video. It can remove all the scenes not containing sexual contact, or edit out just a specific Read more about Miles Deep – AI Porn Video Editor[…]

Google’s Photo Scan App Makes Backing Up Old Snapshots Easy as Hell

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The Photo Scan app launched by Google today for iOS and Android lets you scan printed photos in just a couple of seconds, using machine learning to correct imperfections in the capture process that they look great every time. Here’s how it works: Download the app, and open it up. You’ll see a viewfinder. Hold Read more about Google’s Photo Scan App Makes Backing Up Old Snapshots Easy as Hell[…]

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit now on Github: deep learning AI that recognises human speech at very low error rates

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The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit—previously known as CNTK—helps you harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning. Source: The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit – Microsoft Research They also offer RESTful APIs on another site, Cognitive Services, with applications you can tap into and APIs for vison, speech, language, knowledge and search. They usually offer free testing, Read more about The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit now on Github: deep learning AI that recognises human speech at very low error rates[…]

Someone built an AI chatbot from a text message database of a dead man, works quite well

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It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup. She had struggled with whether she was Read more about Someone built an AI chatbot from a text message database of a dead man, works quite well[…]

CIA Can Anticipate Social Unrest ‘Three to Five Days’ Out in Some Cases

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The agency, Hallman said, has significantly improved its “anticipatory intelligence,” using a mesh of sophisticated algorithms and analytics against complex systems to better predict the flow of everything from illicit cash to extremists around the globe. Deep learning and other forms of machine learning can help analysts understand how seemingly disparate data sets might be Read more about CIA Can Anticipate Social Unrest ‘Three to Five Days’ Out in Some Cases[…]

AI Machine-learning models vulnerable to reverse engineering

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In a paper [PDF] presented in August at the 25th Annual Usenix Security Symposium, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Cornell University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed that machine learning models can be stolen and that basic security measures don’t really mitigate attacks. Machine learning models may, for example, Read more about AI Machine-learning models vulnerable to reverse engineering[…]

Unintended consequences of AI: Amazon Echo seems to condition kids to be rude

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Alexa will put up with just about anything. She has a remarkable tolerance for annoying behavior, and she certainly doesn’t care if you forget your please and thank yous. But while artificial intelligence technology can blow past such indignities, parents are still irked by their kids’ poor manners when interacting with Alexa, the assistant that Read more about Unintended consequences of AI: Amazon Echo seems to condition kids to be rude[…]

Swarm A.I. Correctly Predicts the Kentucky Derby, Accurately Picking all Four Horses of the Superfecta at 540 to 1 Odds – showing that humans can swarm

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Until recently, the human species has been unable to take advantage of this fundamental biological technique, for we didn’t evolve the ability to swarm. Enter Unanimous A.I., a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2014 by serial entrepreneur and researcher Dr. Louis Rosenberg. The core question Rosenberg set out to answer was: Can humans swarm, and Read more about Swarm A.I. Correctly Predicts the Kentucky Derby, Accurately Picking all Four Horses of the Superfecta at 540 to 1 Odds – showing that humans can swarm[…]

Fathom – AI Neural Network learning accelerator on a USB stick

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Movidius is also introducing the Fathom Neural Compute Stick — the first product of its kind — a modular deep learning accelerator in the form of a standard USB stick. Featuring a full-fledged Myriad 2 VPU, the Fathom Neural Compute Stick not only enables rapid prototyping, but also delivers high levels of neural network compute Read more about Fathom – AI Neural Network learning accelerator on a USB stick[…]

Machine Learning Inspired by Human Learning  – AI can learn handwriting using a single example

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Taking inspiration from the way humans seem to learn, scientists have created AI software capable of picking up new knowledge in a far more efficient and sophisticated way. The new AI program can recognize a handwritten character about as accurately as a human can, after seeing just a single example. The best existing machine-learning algorithms, Read more about Machine Learning Inspired by Human Learning  – AI can learn handwriting using a single example[…]

How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators

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The developers at Ashley Madison created their first artificial woman sometime in early 2002. Her nickname was Sensuous Kitten, and she is listed as the tenth member of Ashley Madison in the company’s leaked user database. On her profile, she announces: “I’m having trouble with my computer … send a message!” Source: How Ashley Madison Read more about How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators[…]

Evolving swarm intelligence in robots

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The Lausanne university in Switserland has moved from the software to the reality: they’ve managed to get robots to evolve and learn behaviours, as well as the behaviour to decieve and cooperate through communication (flashing lights) and movement. It’ s a very interesting experiment, showing that robots are getting smarter every day and are now Read more about Evolving swarm intelligence in robots[…]