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Amazon Modifies Shopping Experience
Amazon Style opened their first-ever physical fashion store [https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-reimagines-in-store-shopping-with-amazon-style] where clients can find collections of women’s and men’s clothing. Company decided to make the best of shopping on Amazon in real life: good prices and selection. While using the Amazon Shopping app, customers can send items to a fitting room, from which they can use a touchscreen to browse more options, and ask for more sizes or styles that
Feb 1, 2022
Music Star in One Click
Mr. Mitchell is the founder of a website and app - Boomy. The idea of the app is assist users in creating their own music applying AI [https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59878572] operating system that does most of the music creation heavy lifting . Look for your favorite music genres and simply tap "create song", and then the program will compose one for you in a sec. The app’s AI is designed to quickly pick the track's key, chords and melody. And, after this step, it gives you tips to help yo
Jan 31, 2022
Human-like AI Avatars by DeepBrain AI
A CES 2022 Innovation Awards Winner DeepBrain AI seems to have successfully hastened us to the reality of “humanising” AI assistants [https://www.deepbrainai.io/en/ces-review/]. The company offered its customers the ability to easily create AI assistants in a familiar, enlightening, and approachable manner. Its video guide explaining how the assistant may work combines solutions, influencing the power of Artificial Intelligence to quickly create realistic human-based AI avatars that educate, res
Jan 27, 2022
Influence of AI on Biotechnology
There are around 15 million distinct species of living organisms on this planet. Out of those, only 2 million have been identified. Furthermore, approximately 80% of the world’s rivers and oceans are unexplored. Basically, this means that freshwater and marine ecosystems may contain the largest number of unknown plant and animal species known to humans. What does this mean? To discover and protect these species, we need to have comprehensive monitoring systems in place. Such systems can and sho
Jan 25, 2022
Advancing Hearing Comprehension
In a research published in the academic journal “Nature Communications”, Josh McDermott explained how he employed computational modeling to analyze factors that affect how humans can hear pitch [https://news.mit.edu/2021/perfecting-pitch-perception-1217]. This kind of model closely simulates that of humans — but only when it is trained using music, voices, or other naturalistic sounds. This study connected an artificial neural network with an actual model of the mammalian ear, combining the pow
Jan 20, 2022
AI Asserting on Different Topics at Oxford Union Debate
The experiment was created to start a discussion about the ethics of the AI technology. The AI said that the only way to stop such thing becoming too authoritative is not to have AI at all. The Megatron LLB Transformer was created by the Applied Deep Research team at a computer chip firm Nvidia and based on earlier work by Google. The project itself was developed by post-graduate students studying Artificial Intelligence for Business at Oxford's [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59687236] S
Jan 20, 2022
Benefits from Pathogenic Fungi in the Root Mycobiome
Perplexing microbial [https://phys.org/news/2021-12-differentiating-friends-foes-fungal-root.html] communities inhabit plants and inflect their development. Exclusively, roots host an expanded diversity of micro-organisms along with bacteria and fungi that straightforward affect plant health. It is a publication in Nature Communications, where Fantin Mesny and co-authors contribute novel insights into how these fungi conquer roots, why a lot of them are possibly harmful and what comprehends be
Jan 18, 2022
Sparse Data Foreseeing Laboratory Quakes
A special machine-learning concept created for sparse data reliably predicts fault slip in laboratory earthquakes [https://phys.org/news/2021-12-sparse-lab-quakes.html]. This can be essential for predicting fault slip and potentially earthquakes in the industry. The recent study by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team has evolved on their previous success using data-driven approaches that worked for slow-slip events in Earth but came up small on large-scale stick-slip faults that generated rel
Jan 14, 2022
Use of AI-generated Characters for Different Fields
To boost the potential of the technology, the researchers at MIT Media Lab and their colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Osaka University have built an open-source, convenient character generation pipeline [https://news.mit.edu/2021/ai-generated-characters-for-good-1216] that integrates AI models for facial gestures, voice, and motion. It can be used to create a variety of audio and video outputs. The pipeline also connects the resulting production to a traceable, co
Jan 13, 2022
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Jan 12, 2022
Bean Machine for AI Uncertainty by Meta
Meta (meaning Facebook) made an announcement of Bean Machine [https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/12/introducing-bean-machine-a-probabilistic-programming-platform-built-on-pytorch/] . It is a probabilistic programming system that, formally, makes it easier to perform and learn about confusions in AI models. Bean Machine can be used to discover unobserved properties of a model via automatic, “uncertainty-aware” learning algorithms. Probabilistic modeling, the kind of the AI technique that Be
Jan 12, 2022
Finetuning of GPT-3 Is Now Officially Allowed, says OpenAI
OpenAI has announced that its customers now have the opportunity to create custom versions of GPT-3 [https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/14/openai-begins-allowing-customers-to-fine-tune-gpt-3/] , a model that can generate human-like text and code. The new GPT-3 fine-tuning capability enables customers to train GPT-3, to identify definitive patterns for tasks and workloads like content generation, classification, and text summarization in particular domains. The fine-tuned models demonstrate 2x acc
Dec 30, 2021