A growing body of research suggests that the facial movements of almost anyone can be synced to audio clips of speech, given a sufficiently large corpus. In June, applied scientists at Samsung detailed an end-to-end model capable of animating the eyebrows, mouth, and eyelashes, and cheeks in a person’s headshot. Only a few weeks later, Udacity revealed a system that automatically generates…
Facebook’s AI uses schemas to teach robots to manipulate objects in less than 10 hours of training
October 7, 2019
How might a two-armed robot go about accomplishing a task like opening a bottle? Invariably, it’ll need to hold the bottle’s base with one hand while grasping the cap with the other and twisting it off. That high-level sequence of steps is what’s known as a schema, and…
How to operationalize AI ethics
October 7, 2019
Last week, I moderated a panel at TWIMLcon about how teams and organizations can operationalize responsible AI that combined perspectives from three people from different corners of the tech and AI community.
Rachel Thomas is best known as cofounder of fast.ai, a popular…
Machines have a tougher time summarizing text than you’d think, at least where the summarization is abstractive rather than extractive. While the extraction requires merely concatenating sentences, abstraction involves the task of paraphrasing using novel sentences. Progress has been made in the news domain recently, perhaps owing to the abundance of corpora on which algorithmic systems can be…
AI in messaging: Hard to solve, but full of promise
October 6, 2019
There is a huge whitespace waiting to be filled by the tech companies that recognize the power and potential of messaging.
Roughly 63% of people prefer to share information on “dark social,” or closed, private messaging environments like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
“Let’s not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we’re not sure yet how they’re going to change society,” warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. “Let’s try to think…
AI Medical Service raises $42.9 million to detect cancerous lesions from endoscope footage
October 4, 2019
AI Medical Service, a Tokyo-based provider of AI-powered endoscopic screening products, today announced that it’s raised $42.9 million in a series B funding round led by Globis Capital Partners, with participation from World Innovation Lab (WIL), IGV’s Sony Innovation Fund, and undisclosed existing and previous investors. The fresh funds come on the heels of the startup’s $9 million funding…
Osmo and Disney are unveiling Super Studio Frozen 2, a drawing app that uses artificial intelligence and Disney characters.
The learning application is part of the promotional activity arriving in advance of the November 22 debut of Frozen 2, the sequel to the 2013 animated…
Can AI agents learn to generalize beyond its immediate experience? That’s an open question in machine learning research, and an area of acute interest for firms like Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind.
In a study conducted in collaboration with Stanford and the…
Facebook open-sources data set for code search AI benchmark
October 3, 2019
Facebook AI researchers created code search data sets that utilize information from GitHub and Stack Overflow. The release contains an evaluation data set of 287 Stack Overflow question-and-answer pairs including code snippets, as well as a search corpus of code snippets from nearly 25,000 Android repositories on GitHub.
The Neural Code Search Evaluation Data Set was published on arXiv in August…
