A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.
Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man, was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago.
The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine. — Read More
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
GirlfriendGPT – Your personal AI companion
A starter project to help you build your personalized AI companion with a unique personality, voice, and even SELFIES! — Read More
Homework Machine Hand Writes AI-Generated Assignments
Devadeth’s homework machine generates text based on the user’s own handwriting to result in more convincing penmanship.
I believe that laziness should be encouraged in many situations. Hardworking people will spend hours laboring on a project, but lazy people will find clever ways to achieve the same result with minimal effort. Laziness gave us tools, machines, computers, and ChatGPT. If you’re a lazy student, then ChatGPT is a tempting solution for essay assignments. But most teachers don’t share my enlightened principles, so they require that students write out their essays by hand in order to thwart ChatGPT submissions. To give those students a viable workaround, Devadath P R designed a homework machine that hand writes ChatGPT essays convincingly.
This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve one of the biggest problems with other homework machines, such as this one that I covered a few months ago after it blew up on social media. The problem with most homework machines is that they’re too perfect. — Read More
A visual introduction to machine learning
In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. This is a great interactive resource introducing machine learning and machine learning techniques. — Read More
Explainable AI: Making the Black Box Transparent
Explainable AI (XAI) has been gaining popularity among tech enthusiasts, data scientists, and software engineers in a world where AI is becoming more prevalent.
In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, a new term has been capturing the attention of tech enthusiasts, data scientists, and software engineers alike: Explainable AI (XAI). But what exactly is it? According to DARPA, Explainable AI refers to artificial intelligence systems whose actions can be understood by human experts. In other words, XAI aims to shed light on the inner workings of complex AI models, making them more transparent and less of a ‘black box.’ — Read More
Fake AI image of Pentagon exploding goes viral on Twitter and causes US markets to plummet
A fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington DC, which may have been created using AI technology, caused a brief market selloff.
The image purported to show a large cloud of smoke near the headquarters of the Department of Defense on Monday, and was shared by a string of online accounts on Twitter.
But the image and claims of an explosion were quickly branded fake by the Arlington Fire Department. — Read More
Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes the future top company in artificial intelligence will likely have created a personal digital agent that can perform certain tasks for people.
The technology will be so profound, it could radically alter user behaviors. “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said.
This yet-to-be developed AI assistant will be able to understand a person’s needs and habits and will help them “read the stuff you don’t have time to read,” Gates said Monday during a Goldman Sachs and SV Angel event in San Francisco on the topic of artificial intelligence. — Read More
Preserving the World’s Language Diversity Through AI
Many of the world’s languages are in danger of disappearing, and the limitations of current speech recognition and generation technology will only accelerate this trend. We want to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language, and today we’re announcing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) models that could help them do just that.
Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100 — more than 10 times as many as before — and can also identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than before.
… We’re open-sourcing our models and code so that others in the research community can build on our work and help preserve the world’s languages and bring the world closer together. — Read More
On-boarding your AI Intern
There’s a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Let’s get to work.
In previous posts, I have made the argument that, for a variety of reasons, it is better to think of AI as a person (even though it isn’t) than a piece of software. In fact, perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of our current AI moment is that several billion people just got free interns. They are weird, somewhat alien interns that work infinitely fast and sometimes lie to make you happy, but interns nonetheless.
So, how can you figure out how to best use your intern? — Read More
Does AI mean we don’t need the Semantic Web?
If you hang around with computerists long enough, they start talking about the Semantic Web. If you can represent human knowledge in a way that’s easy for computers to understand it will be transformative for information processing.
But computers, traditionally, haven’t been very good at parsing ambiguous human text.
… [That is now changing.] Do we need to write for computers any more? — Read More
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