Apple has announced a new feature called Live Text, which will digitize the text in all your photos. This unlocks a slew of handy functions, from turning handwritten notes into emails and messages to searching your camera roll for receipts or recipes you’ve photographed.
…Apple says the feature is enabled using “deep neural networks” and “on-device intelligence,” with the latter being the company’s preferred phrasing for machine learning. (It stresses Apple’s privacy-heavy approach to AI, which focuses on processing data on-device rather than sending it to the cloud. Read More
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Musicians Demand Spotify Not Develop Emotional Speech Recognition Patent
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Kliph Scurlock of The Flaming Lips, and all of Harry and the Potters are among the nearly 200 signatures on an open letter to Spotify firmly asking the streaming service not to develop a patent granted earlier this year for tech that can identify emotions in people’s voices.
The patent granted in January describes how Spotify could use its voice recognition tech to infer how someone is feeling by the sound of their voice. The software would also attempt to determine other aspects of the user’s identity, including gender, age, and accent. The resulting profile would then be combined with location data shared with Spotify to generate a playlist of songs that the AI suggests might appeal to the user at that moment. It’s essentially a far more sophisticated and personalized version of the recommendation algorithm used by Spotify right now. Who the listener is, where they are, and how they are feeling would presumably produce a playlist with many more songs the user would like to listen to compared to relying on only their previous listening history. Read More
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