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Is this art? AI-generated portrait fetches over $400,000 at auction

Rich Haridy October 28, 2018

Last week, the first ever work of AI-generated art to be sold by a major auction house fetched US$432,500. The work, entitled Portrait of Edmond Belamy, sold for 45 times its estimate, however many in the AI art community are frustrated such a basic example of algorithmic art achieved this success.

This piece of AI-generated art sold at Christie's auction house for $432,000

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The AI solution for diagnosing early cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease

Rich Haridy October 4, 2018

A big challenge facing Alzheimer’s and dementia researchers today is finding a way to identify patients suffering from the earliest stages of cognitive decline. New research is suggesting that AI could be the key to accurately predicting those patients most at risk of developing Alzheimer’s.

An AI system is being developed to predict whether a person will suffer cognitive decline up ...

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IBM is on a mission to remove prejudice from AI

James Holloway September 28, 2018

Organizations are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to automate that decision making. But if those AI algorithms use imperfect data and flawed assumptions, they inherit the biases and prejudices of the humans behind them. But IBM is throwing down the gauntlet.

IBM's toolkit aims to make the decisions that affect our everyday lives fairer for everyone

Robotics

Alibaba's service robot will work the hotels

Ben Coxworth September 27, 2018

When we last heard about Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, it was making deliveries-by-drone and developing a vending machine for cars. Now, Alibaba A.I. Labs has announced an artificially-intelligent wheeled robot that will be tending to the needs of hotel guests.

A side view of the Alibaba robot, which is slated to enter service in October

Science

AI better than humans at predicting outcomes for those at risk of psychosis and depression

Rich Haridy September 26, 2018

A study has revealed a machine-learning algorithm can effectively predict the social outcomes of patients with depression or psychosis better than human experts. The research found the AI outperformed clinician predictions when estimating a patient’s social functioning up to a year in the future.

A machine learning has model effectively predicted social outcomes up to one year in the future

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BAE Systems developing "wearable cockpit" for fighter pilots

David Szondy September 23, 2018

BAE Systems is seeking to make the jet fighter cockpit of tomorrow a much simpler place by replacing conventional instruments and controls with a virtual reality system that uses artificial intelligence and eye-tracking technology.

Experts at BAE Systems are developing technologies to enable pilots to control the fighter jet of ...

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Next-gen deepfakes can falsely put words in people's mouths

James Holloway September 11, 2018

Deepfake. It's a word that's entered the modern lexicon for all the wrong reasons. The technique can superimpose the likeness of one person onto a video of someone else. Now, new research could take deepfakes to the next level, taking the detailed content of one video and applying it to another.

"Finding ways to detect them will be important moving forward," says Carnegie Mellon researcher Aayush Bansal

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Neural network can detect depression in everyday conversation

James Holloway September 6, 2018

In a new paper, researchers at MIT have detailed a neural network capable of detecting depression. Unlike previous methods using machine learning, MIT's neural net doesn't require the subject to answer specific questions – it can make an assessment based on everyday conversation, or even text.

The neural network can detect depression in both text and speech

Medical

Facebook and NYU turn to AI to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster

Rich Haridy August 20, 2018

The NYU School of Medicine's Department of Radiology is joining forces with Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research group on a project aiming to utilize AI to dramatically speed up the time it takes to complete a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

A joint collaboration between NYU and Facebook hopes to demonstrate results within the year

Computers

3D-printed Deep Learning neural network uses light instead of electrons

Matt Kennedy August 1, 2018

It's a novel idea, using light diffracted through numerous plates instead of electrons. And to some, it might seem a little like replacing a computer with an abacus, but researchers at UCLA have high hopes for their quirky, shiny, speed-of-light artificial neural network.

UCLA researchers have "created a unique all-optical platform to perform machine learning tasks at the speed ...