In a preprint paper published on the web this week, researchers affiliated with Microsoft Research Asia and the University of Science and Technology of China propose what they claim is a state-of-the-art AI technique for video enhancement and upscaling (i.e., boosting the resolution of footage while retaining quality). Their model (and others like it) could be of use to virtually any person with…
Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images
March 6, 2020
The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the…
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could lead to much more capable AI decision-making systems than have been previously released, which could be a boon for…
Hailo, a startup developing hardware designed to speed up AI inferencing at the edge, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series B funding led by previous and new strategic investors. CEO Orr Danon says the tranche will be used to accelerate the rollout of Hailo’s Hailo-8 chip, which was officially detailed in May 2019 ahead of an early 2020 ship date — a chip that enables…
AI and machine learning jobs are in strong demand around the U.S., but not every region has benefited equally from the boom. That’s according to ZipRecruiter’s Future of Work Report 2020, which is out today. To complie the report, ZipRecruiter surveyed data science job…
Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out the technologies that enable engineers within its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to test, validate, and deploy AI models to cars. It…
It’s easy to feel outrage at Clearview AI for creating facial recognition trained with 3 billion images scraped without permission from sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but the company should be only one of the targets of your ire. Pervasive surveillance capitalism is designed to make you feel helpless, but shaping AI regulation is part of citizenship in the 21st century, and you’ve…
Today, Facebook unveiled a machine learning tool that, in the last year, has removed more than six billion fake accounts. That’s in addition to the millions of new fake accounts that Facebook blocks from being created daily. According to Facebook, the tool has been…
While self-driving cars have hogged the headlines for the past few years, other forms of autonomous transport are starting to heat up.
This month, IBM and Promare — a U.K.-based marine research and exploration charity — will trial a prototype of an artificial…
Google Assistant for Android has just become a lot more useful for people with vision and reading problems, as well as for those learning new languages. The tech giant has rolled out a new feature that gives it the capability to read web pages aloud. Google says the feature brings together many of its advancements in speech technology, making it sound more natural than other more run-of-the-mill…
