Machine learning & AI news
Machine learning & AI
A new framework to generate human motions from language prompts
Machine learning-based models that can autonomously generate various types of content have become increasingly advanced over the past few years. These frameworks have opened new possibilities for filmmaking and for compiling ...
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The use of AI in war games could change military strategy
The rise of commercially viable generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform a vast range of sectors. This transformation will be particularly profound in contemporary military education.
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Insider Q&A: Trust and safety exec talks about AI and content moderation
Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitter's advertising business when she started ...
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Neural networks can mediate between download size and quality, according to researcher
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth have been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob ...
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Engineering
Researchers develop performance technology for aerial and satellite image extraction
The development of the world's most performant neural network module for accurately extracting objects from aerial and satellite imagery is expected to have wide applications across various fields, according to DGIST and ...
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Business
Most executives already using generative AI tools, survey shows
Despite popular concern about generative AI making jobs redundant, a new survey by INSEAD shows employees and business leaders alike are enthusiastic about the transformative technology. In fact, two out of three respondents ...
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Business
How AI can enhance flexibility, efficiency for customer service centers
Whenever you call a customer service contact center, the team on the other end of the line typically has three goals: to reduce their response time, solve your problem and do it within the shortest service time possible.
Apr 22, 2024
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Business
Supermarket facial recognition failure—why automated systems must put the human factor first
The incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise.
Apr 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising
An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it's hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally ...
Apr 21, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
AI chatbots refuse to produce 'controversial' output—why that's a free speech problem
Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly's image creation tool saw similar ...
Apr 21, 2024
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Business
InstaDeep CEO takes AI from Tunis to London
Karim Beguir launched the artificial intelligence start-up InstaDeep in Tunisia in 2014 with just two computers and $2,000.
Apr 21, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives no release date
Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars—but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about facilitating deep fake content.
Apr 20, 2024
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Business
AI a 'fundamental change in the news ecosystem': Expert
Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause "a fundamental change in the news ecosystem", media expert David Caswell told AFP.
Apr 20, 2024
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Business
AI's relentless rise gives journalists tough choices
The rise of artificial intelligence has forced an increasing number of journalists to grapple with the ethical and editorial challenges posed by the rapidly expanding technology.
Apr 20, 2024
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Software
Microsoft's AI app VASA-1 makes photographs talk and sing with believable facial expressions
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft Research Asia has developed an AI application that converts a still image of a person and an audio track into an animation that accurately portrays the individual speaking or singing ...
Machine learning & AI
To build a better AI helper, start by modeling the irrational behavior of humans
To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to behave suboptimally when making decisions.
Apr 19, 2024
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