AI & Robotics

NVIDIA has unveiled the RTX Broadcast Engine, powered by the Tensor Cores on RTX GPUs, that can do live filters, greenscreening and other tricks for Twitch streamers. The most interesting feature is RTX Greenscreen, which can remove the background from Twitch streamers and replace it with gameplay or whatever you want. “The RTX Greenscreen AI model understands which part of an image is human…

The era of giant battle robots appears to be over… although you might have a chance to bring it back. MegaBots has gone bankrupt after once again running out of money, and it’s auctioning its 16-foot-tall Eagle Prime robot on eBay as part of the shutdown. It’s a fully functional bot that even includes weapon attachments, CAD files and a shipping container full of parts, and the…

Just when you think researchers have found the wackiest possible use for a neural net yet, another team finds an even more novel use for artificial intelligence. Take Facebook’s new Fashion++ AI. It’s a program that will help you become a fashionista. Facebook trained Fashion++ by showing the AI thousands of images of outfits that were deemed “fashionable.” What’s…

Google Assistant users outside the US haven’t had much choice when it comes to voice options — until now, as Google launches a second voice for Assistant in French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Korean, Italian and English for India and the UK. The new voices have been built with DeepMind’s WaveNet technology to help them sound natural, and will be displayed in settings as…