Daily Archives: March 25, 2020
The Latest and Greatest AI-Enabled Deepfake Takes us ‘Back to the Future’
With well over 6 million views since its mid-February release, YouTuber EZRyderX47’s Back to the Future deepfake video, with Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland seamlessly replacing Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, has become quite the viral sensation. The video is brilliantly done, from the lip-sync to the anything but uncanny eyes; the choice of films, and clip, was inspired as well, a welcome window into a new riff on a Hollywood classic. Produced using two readily available pieces of free software – HitFilm Express, from FXhome, and Deepfacelab – the startingly believable piece instantly conjures up all sorts of notions, both wonderful and sinister, regarding the seemingly unlimited horizons of AI-enhanced digital technology. If today’s visual magicians can create any image with stunning photoreal clarity, what, dare we ask, can propogandists, criminals and other “bad” actors do with the same digital tools? Read More
#fake, #videosStanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages
We introduce Stanza, an open-source Python natural language processing toolkit supporting 66 human languages. Compared to existing widely used toolkits, Stanza features a language-agnostic fully neural pipeline for text analysis, including tokenization, multiword token expansion, lemmatization, part-of speech and morphological feature tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition. We have trained Stanza on a total of 112 datasets, including the Universal Dependencies treebanks and other multilingual corpora, and show that the same neural architecture
generalizes well and achieves competitive performance on all languages tested. Additionally, Stanza includes a native Python interface to the widely used Java Stanford CoreNLP software, which further extends its functionalities to cover other tasks such as coreference resolution and relation extraction. Read More
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Moscow uses facial recognition network to maintain quarantine
A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia.
The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints over sophisticated state surveillance. Read More
Massively Scaling Reinforcement Learning with SEED RL
Reinforcement learning (RL) has seen impressive advances over the last few years as demonstrated by the recent success in solving games such as Go and Dota 2. Models, or agents, learn by exploring an environment, such as a game, while optimizing for specified goals. However, current RL techniques require increasingly large amounts of training to successfully learn even simple games, which makes iterating research and product ideas computationally expensive and time consuming. Read More
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Rick's Cafe AI 