It’s the first example of a recurring production that will rely on deepfakes as part of its core premise.
The fake news: A new weekly satire show from the creators of South Park is using deepfakes, or AI-synthesized media, to poke fun at some of the most important topics of our time. Called Sassy Justice, the show is hosted by the character Fred Sassy, a reporter for the local news station in Cheyenne, Wyoming, who sports a deepfaked face of president Trump, though a completely different voice, hair style, and persona. Read More
Daily Archives: October 29, 2020
Digital Twin, Virtual Manufacturing, and the Coming Diamond Age
If you have ever had a book self-published through Amazon or similar fulfillment houses, chances are good that the physical book did not exist prior to the order being placed. Instead, that book existed as a PDF file, image files for cover art and author photograph, perhaps with some additional XML-based metadata indicating production instructions, trim, paper specifications, and so forth.
When the order was placed, it was sent to a printer that likely was the length of a bowling alley, where the PDF was converted into a negative and then laser printed onto the continuous paper stock. This was then cut to a precise size that varied minutely from page to page depending upon the binding type, before being collated and glued into the binding.
At the end of the process, a newly printed book dropped onto a rolling platform and from there to a box, where it was potentially wrapped and deposited automatically before the whole box was closed, labeled, and passed to a shipping gurney. Read More
Deep Generative Design: Integration of Topology Optimization and Generative Models
Deep learning has recently been applied to various research areas of design optimization. This study presents the need and effectiveness of adopting deep learning for generative design (or design exploration) research area. This work proposes an artificial intelligent (AI)-based deep generative design framework that is capable of generating numerous design options which are not only aesthetic but also optimized for engineering performance. The proposed framework integrates topology optimization and generative models (e.g., generative adversarial networks (GANs))in an iterative manner to explore new design options,thus generating a large number of designs starting from limited previous design data. In addition, anomaly detection can evaluate the novelty of generated designs, thus helping designers choose among design options. The 2D wheel design problem is applied as a case study for validation of the proposed framework. The framework manifests better aesthetics, diversity, and robustness of generated designs than previous generative design methods. Read More
5 Habits of Organizations With Successful AI
Organizations need diverse teams, executive sponsorship and fewer proofs of concept for the strongest AI programs.
Nearly half of CIOs say they now employ AI or intend to within the next 12 months. But how to make AI a core IT competency still eludes most organizations. Boards of directors, CEOs and customers want to use AI to power real improvements in customer and employee experience.
“It might sound counterintuitive, but do as few proofs of concept (POCs) as possible.” Read More
Executive’s guide to developing AI at scale
Developing artificial intelligence and analytics applications typically involves different processes, technology, and talent than those for traditional software solutions. Executives who possess a solid understanding of the basics can ensure they’re making the right investments in their tech stacks and teams to build reliable solutions at scale. We’ve created an interactive guide to help. Read More
This incredible Google experiment lets you time travel to your hometown 200 years ago
In the 20 years he’d lived in New York, Raimondas Kiveris had seen the city change immensely. “It was a completely different place, a different town,” says Kiveris, a software engineer at Google Research. This got him wondering what his neighborhood looked like even before that—before he’d lived there, before he’d even been born. “There’s really no easy way to find that information in any organized way,” he says. “So I was starting to think, can we somehow enable this kind of virtual time travel?”
Thee years later, his attempt at virtual time travel is taking shape as an open-source map that can show, in both a bird’s-eye view and a pedestrian-level view, the changes that happen to city streetscapes over time. Read More
How Can AI And Quantum Computers Work Together?
Traditional computers operate based on data that is encoded in a binary system. Essentially, each bit of data is represented in zeroes and ones only — no more, no less than the two forms. Hence, the binary computing system. However, there is a new generation of computers emerging on the horizon called quantum computing and it’s taking computing systems beyond the normal binary.
… One of the areas where quantum computing is more lucrative and promising is artificial intelligence. As AI operates on the analysis of large datasets, the margin of error and inaccuracy in the process of learning has significant room for improvement — and quantum computing may well allow us to improve the algorithm’s ability to learn and interpret. Read More
NtechLab face biometrics piloted in ten more Russian cities’ public security systems
NtechLab, which provides the face biometric technology used in Moscow’s massive public security system, has launched pilot projects in ten other cities, though Kommersant (as translated by Google) reports that funding challenges could slow or prevent an operational rollout. Read More
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