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Fooling OpenAI’s CLIP Vision systemOpenAI have developed a computer vision system called CLIP to recognize objects, images, and text, but this leaves it vulnerable to be easily confused by text labels. “CLIP’s multimodal neurons generalize across the literal and the iconic, which may be a...
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LitterCamComputer vision software can now detect motorists throwing litter out of their window and match this with the car’s number plate to issue an automatic fine of £90. The first trial of the new system will begin in Maidstone, Kent, UK.
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BearID Project“We develop noninvasive technologies to identify and monitor bears, facilitating their conservation.”
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AI autocompletes Windows 95 startup tuneHere’s what happens when the Windows 95 startup sound is fed to OpenAI Jukebox algorithms to generate its continuation. To train Jukebox on a number of music genres, OpenAI researchers crawled the web to extract a new dataset of 1.2 million songs paired with...
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Chants of Fuck the AlgorithmStudents gathered outside of the department of education, in London, to protest Ofqual’s use of an Algorithm to determine this year’s A-level exam results, of which 40% were downgraded, causing many students to lose their places at universities. Video credit: Huck
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First Order Kiss by ShardcoreThe artist Shardcore has used a Machine Learning technique called First Order Motion Model to animate celebrities singing the Prince song kiss.
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training an existing StyleGAN model of faces, on catsJanelle Shane has run various ‘transfer learning’ experiments with RunwayML, where you train an existing model on a new set of images. Here, the popular StyleGAN v2 ‘faces’ model is trained for a while on photos of her cats.
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Coughing Simulations Various research groups are using software to run simulations of how coughing can spread in public places. The first one is by Aalto university and the airplane one is by researchers at Purdue University. Are these funny or scary?
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Sketchflix by Mario KlingemannA drawing bot continuously doodles on an online canvas. The bot is present for conversation - as a spectator you can write messages on the canvas and the bot responds (powered by a ML text generator called GPT-2).
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Human-to-Animal translationA new machine learning model called StarGAN v2 can do image-to-image translation - allowing for experiments into turning humans into animals. Image source here.
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Yelp! Yelp trained a neural net to eliminate bugs from its app’s code, and it simply deleted everything, or so they claim, in their version notes on the app-store. It could be yet another case of the “algorithms ate my homework” excuse for when humans mess up.
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What crowd surveillance software does for fun in it’s spare time.
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Google Translate’s reading of a Spanish menu - with Puppy Warm, and the Hamburger of Fear Complete. A holiday snap by Shardcore
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A user interaction with the Visual Chatbot, a thing made by researchers looking into “meaningful dialog with humans in natural, conversational language about visual content.” I’m trying to figure out what is natural about the above conversation.
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A Samsung Smart Fridge doing its GDPR terms update. The fridge requires you to give it the OK before being allowed to reach for the milk.
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Algo-generated reports on global offal markets on AmazonA collection of computer-generated books, available to buy on Amazon, offer information about the frozen edible offal markets for beef, pork and ‘sheep and horses’, for every continent, in 2016 (only 2016). The books, and software, are by a...