Covid Drives Real Businesses to Tap Deepfake Technology

This month, advertising giant WPP will send unusual corporate training videos to tens of thousands of employees worldwide. A presenter will speak in the recipient’s language and address them by name, while explaining some basic concepts in artificial intelligence. The videos themselves will be powerful demonstrations of what AI can do: The face, and the words it speaks, will be synthesized by software.

WPP doesn’t bill them as such, but its synthetic training videos might be called deepfakes, a loose term applied to images or videos generated using AI that look real. Read More

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9 emerging job roles for the future of AI

AI is poised to transform nearly every industry, and with it will come significant changes for many job functions. Many roles across organizations will require at least some use of artificial intelligence technologies in the coming years, creating massive new opportunities for the AI-savvy regardless of discipline. Read More

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The Essential Guide to Creating an AI Product in 2020

Working on a new Artificial Intelligence-powered product in 2020? If you’re wondering where to start, I’m hoping that this post helps you get your questions answered and thoughts organized before you dive in deep. It is framed for the benefit of the AI product owner in an organization tasked to identify the product to be built, form a team, get it built, and launch it for real users with pain points. Read More

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23 sources of data bias for #machinelearning and #deeplearning

In the paper A survey on bias and fairness in machine learning.- the authors outline 23 types of bias in data for machinelearning. The source is good – so below is an actual representation because I found it useful as it is. Read More

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Artificial intelligence and Cybersecurity: A necessary evil in the fight against malware systems

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized all sectors with its great capacity to process information. In the cybersecurity space, it is capable of increasing the detection, range and precision of cyberattacks.

In this article, we are going to discuss the most important characteristics of artificial intelligence and its relationship with cybersecurity, as well as the challenges that it can present if not properly managed. Read More

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Andrew Mayne’s New AI project captures Jane Austen’s thoughts on social media

Have you ever wanted to pick the brains of Sir Isaac Newton, Mary Shelley, or Benjamin Franklin? Well now you can (kinda), thanks to a new experiment by magician and novelist Andrew Mayne.

The project — called AI|Writer — uses OpenAI’s new text generator API to create simulated conversations with virtual historical figures. Read More

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