Google Taught an AI to Make Sense of the Human Genome

This week, Google released a tool called DeepVariant that uses deep learning to piece together a person’s genome and more accurately identify mutations in a DNA sequence.Built on the back of the same technology that allows Google to identify whether a photo is of a cat or dog, DeepVariant solves an important problem in the Read more about Google Taught an AI to Make Sense of the Human Genome[…]

AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016. Set in a dystopian world with mass unemployment, the movie attracted many fans, with one viewer describing it as amusing but strange. But the most notable aspect of the film involves its creation: an artificial-intelligence (AI) bot wrote Sunspring’s screenplay. ome researchers have already used Read more about AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators[…]

AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked – Motherboard

There’s a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But it’s not really Gadot’s body, and it’s barely her own face. It’s an approximation, face-swapped to look like she’s performing in an existing incest-themed porn video.The video was created with a machine learning algorithm, using easily accessible materials and open-source Read more about AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked – Motherboard[…]

DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess (and shogi and go) player in a few hours using generic reinforcement learning

In the paper, DeepMind describes how a descendant of the AI program that first conquered the board game Go has taught itself to play a number of other games at a superhuman level. After eight hours of self-play, the program bested the AI that first beat the human world Go champion; and after four hours Read more about DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess (and shogi and go) player in a few hours using generic reinforcement learning[…]

This frostbitten black metal album was created by an artificial intelligence

Coditany of Timeness” is a convincing lo-fi black metal album, complete with atmospheric interludes, tremolo guitar, frantic blast beats and screeching vocals. But the record, which you can listen to on Bandcamp, wasn’t created by musicians.Instead, it was generated by two musical technologists using a deep learning software that ingests a musical album, processes it, Read more about This frostbitten black metal album was created by an artificial intelligence[…]

Announcing the Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Dataset

I’m excited to announce the initial release of Mozilla’s open source speech recognition model that has an accuracy approaching what humans can perceive when listening to the same recordings. We are also releasing the world’s second largest publicly available voice dataset, which was contributed to by nearly 20,000 people globally. […] This is why we Read more about Announcing the Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Dataset[…]

Google’s AI Built its own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs.More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a ‘child’ that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts.The Google researchers automated Read more about Google’s AI Built its own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans[…]

AirHelp zet volgende stap in kunstmatige intelligentie

Air Help, het claimbedrijf voor vliegtuigpassagiers, zet kunstmatige intelligentie in om real-time te beslissen of een claim sterk genoeg is om in te dienen. De juridische bot Lara bepaalt of vertragingen en annuleringen conform de Europese regelgeving in aanmerking komen voor een vergoeding.De bot is geprogrammeerd om onder andere de vluchtstatus, luchthavenstatistieken en weerrapporten te Read more about AirHelp zet volgende stap in kunstmatige intelligentie[…]

Amazon Announces Five New Machine Learning Services and the World’s First Deep Learning-Enabled Video Camera for Developers

AWS Announces Five New Machine Learning Services and the World’s First Deep Learning-Enabled Video Camera for Developers Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to build, train, and deploy machine learning models AWS DeepLens is the world’s first deep learning-enabled wireless video camera built to give developers hands-on experience with machine learning Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, Amazon Read more about Amazon Announces Five New Machine Learning Services and the World’s First Deep Learning-Enabled Video Camera for Developers[…]

Boffins craft perfect ‘head generator’ to beat facial recognition

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas. As the team of six researchers explained in their arXiv paper this month, people who want to stay private often blur their photos, not knowing that Read more about Boffins craft perfect ‘head generator’ to beat facial recognition[…]

Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported

Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how Read more about Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported[…]

Using Generative Adverserial Networks to create terrain maps

A team of researchers from the University of Lyon, Purdue and Ubisoft have published a paper showing what may well be the future of creating video game worlds: an AI that is able to construct most of its own 3D landscapes. Similar to Nvidia’s work that is able to conjure its own celebrity mugshots, the Read more about Using Generative Adverserial Networks to create terrain maps[…]

Forget cookies or canvas: How to follow people around the web using only their typing techniques

In this paper (Sequential Keystroke Behavioral Biometrics for MobileUser Identification via Multi-view Deep Learning), we propose DEEPSERVICE, a new technique that can identify mobile users based on user’s keystroke information captured by a special keyboard or web browser. Our evaluation results indicate that DEEPSERVICE is highly accurate in identifying mobile users (over 93% accuracy). The Read more about Forget cookies or canvas: How to follow people around the web using only their typing techniques[…]

Re:scam and jolly roger – AI responses to phishing emails and telemarketers

Forward your scammer emails to Re:scam and here’s what happens. Source: Re:scam The AI bot assumes one of many identities with little mistakes and tries to keep the scammer busy with the email exchange for as long as possible using humor. Which reminds me of http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ (seems to be down now), which had a number Read more about Re:scam and jolly roger – AI responses to phishing emails and telemarketers[…]

Machine learning of neural representations of suicide and emotion concepts identifies suicidal youth | Nature Human Behaviour

The clinical assessment of suicidal risk would be substantially complemented by a biologically based measure that assesses alterations in the neural representations of concepts related to death and life in people who engage in suicidal ideation. This study used machine-learning algorithms (Gaussian Naive Bayes) to identify such individuals (17 suicidal ideators versus 17 controls) with Read more about Machine learning of neural representations of suicide and emotion concepts identifies suicidal youth | Nature Human Behaviour[…]

How we fooled Google’s AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun

Students at MIT in the US claim they have developed an algorithm for creating 3D objects and pictures that trick image-recognition systems into severely misidentifying them. Think toy turtles labeled rifles, and baseballs as cups of coffee. It’s well known that machine-learning software can be easily hoodwinked: Google’s AI-in-the-cloud can be misled by noise; protestors Read more about How we fooled Google’s AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun[…]

39 episodes of ‘CSI’ used to build AI’s natural language model

group of University of Edinburgh boffins have turned CSI:Crime Scene Investigation scripts into a natural language training dataset.Their aim is to improve how bots understand what’s said to them – natural language understanding.Drawing on 39 episodes from the first five seasons of the series, Lea Freeman, Shay Cohen and Mirella Lapata have broken the scripts Read more about 39 episodes of ‘CSI’ used to build AI’s natural language model[…]

A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs

Learning from few examples and generalizing to dramatically different situations are capabilities of human visual intelligence that are yet to be matched by leading machine learning models. By drawing inspiration from systems neuroscience, we introduce a probabilistic generative model for vision in which message-passing based inference handles recognition, segmentation and reasoning in a unified way. Read more about A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs[…]

Nvidia uses Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation and makes photorealistic faces with them

We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively, starting from low-resolution images, and add new layers that deal with higher resolution details as the training progresses. This greatly stabilizes the training and allows us to produce images of unprecedented quality, e.g., Read more about Nvidia uses Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation and makes photorealistic faces with them[…]

Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to a ROBOT as critics say it now has more rights than women

  audi Arabia has become the first nation to grant citizenship to a robot – prompting critics to point out that the cyborg now has more rights than women in the country. The oil-rich state made the baffling announcement at a conference in capital city Riyadh. A robot named Sophia was filmed giving a speech Read more about Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to a ROBOT as critics say it now has more rights than women[…]

New AI Go machine defeats old best Go AI by 100-0, learning without human input.

A long-standing goal of artificial intelligence is an algorithm that learns, tabula rasa, superhuman proficiency in challenging domains. Recently, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go. The tree search in AlphaGo evaluated positions and selected moves using deep neural networks. These neural networks were trained by supervised Read more about New AI Go machine defeats old best Go AI by 100-0, learning without human input.[…]

Artificial intelligence just made guessing your password a whole lot easier

Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create a program that, combined with existing tools, figured more than a quarter of the passwords from a set of more than 43 million LinkedIn profiles. Yet the researchers say the technology may also be used to beat baddies at their own game. […] The Read more about Artificial intelligence just made guessing your password a whole lot easier[…]

Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents for Tensorflow

Unity Machine Learning Agents We call our solution Unity Machine Learning Agents (ML-Agents for short), and are happy to be releasing an open beta version of our SDK today! The ML-Agents SDK allows researchers and developers to transform games and simulations created using the Unity Editor into environments where intelligent agents can be trained using Read more about Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents for Tensorflow[…]

AI’s can generate fake reviews indistinguishable from real reviews for both humans and fake review detectors

Fake reviews used to be crowdsourced. Now they can be auto-generated by AI, according to a new research paper shared by AmiMoJo: In this paper, we identify a new class of attacks that leverage deep learning language models (Recurrent Neural Networks or RNNs) to automate the generation of fake online reviews for products and services. Read more about AI’s can generate fake reviews indistinguishable from real reviews for both humans and fake review detectors[…]