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Can you tell between a real and computer-generated face?

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

The test is simple enough: Guess which human face is real and which is not. You’d be surprised how tricky it can get. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Artificial Intelligence, Nvidia, University Of Washington, and Gan

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HyperSciences wants to ‘gamechange’ spaceflight with hypersonic drilling tech

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

It’s no coincidence that Elon Musk wants to both tunnel down into and soar above the Earth. If you ask the team at HyperSciences, the best way to get to space is to flip drilling technology upside down and point it at the sky. In the process, that would mean ditching the large, expensive fuel […]

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AWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML models

sudshr47 January 24, 2019

AWS isn’t exactly known as an open-source powerhouse, but maybe change is in the air. Amazon’s cloud computing unit today announced the launch of Neo-AI, a new open-source project under the Apache Software License. The new tool takes some of the technologies that the company developed and used for its SageMaker Neo machine learning service and brings […]

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Autonomous subs spend a year cruising under Antarctic ice

sudshr47 January 24, 2019

The freezing waters underneath Antarctic ice shelves and the underside of the ice itself are of great interest to scientists… but who wants to go down there? Leave it to the robots. They won’t complain! And indeed, a pair of autonomous subs have been nosing around the ice for a full year now, producing data unlike any other expedition ever has.

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Bumblebees bearing high-tech backpacks act as a living data collection platform

sudshr47 December 11, 2018

There’s lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time. Why not hitch a ride on something that already flies all day? That’s the idea behind this project that equips bumble bees with sensor-filled backpacks that charge wirelessly and collect data on the fields they visit.

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Football matches land on your table thanks to augmented reality

sudshr47 June 19, 2018

It’s World Cup season, so that means that even articles about machine learning have to have a football angle. Today’s concession to the beautiful game is a system that takes 2D videos of matches and recreates them in 3D so you can watch them on your coffee table (assuming you have some kind of augmented reality setup, which you almost certainly don’t). It’s not as good as being there, but it might be better than watching it on TV.

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Watch a laser-powered RoboFly flap its tiny wings

sudshr47 May 16, 2018

Making something fly involves a lot of tradeoffs. Bigger stuff can hold more fuel or batteries, but too big and the lift required is too much. Small stuff takes less lift to fly but might not hold enough energy to do so. Insect-size drones have had that problem in the past — but now this RoboFly is taking its first flaps into the air, thanks to the power of lasers.

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Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fund

sudshr47 April 24, 2018

The founding partners of the new Seattle-based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent-heavy, cash-light region around Amazon and Microsoft’s corporate headquarters. “We’ve underperformed relative to the talent pool,” is how Heather Redman, one of the firm’s three founding partners describes the region. Well, now Flying Fish has held […]

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Want to fool a computer vision system? Just tweak some colors

sudshr47 April 16, 2018

Research into machine learning and the interesting AI models created as a consequence are popular topics these days. But there’s a sort of shadow world of scientists working to undermine these systems — not to show they’re worthless but to shore up their weaknesses. A new paper demonstrates this by showing how vulnerable image recognition models are to the simplest color manipulations of the pictures they’re meant to identify.

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Who’s a good AI? Dog-based data creates a canine machine learning system

sudshr47 April 11, 2018

We’ve trained machine learning systems to identify objects, navigate streets, and recognize facial expressions, but as difficult as they may be, they don’t even touch the level of sophistication required to simulate, for example, a dog. Well, this project aims to do just that — in a very limited way of course. By observing the behavior of A Very Good Girl, this AI learned the rudiments of how to act like a dog.