Artificial Intelligence

The Smart Portrait beta in the Neural Filters menu allows you to use sliders to change how happy, surprised or angry a face is, as well as changing the angle of the head, the age of the subject, and the direction of the eyes. Results, though, can get a bit weird. So that's what I look like when I'm happy!

Photography

Photoshop's new AI-powered Neural Filters include emotion editing

Perhaps we spoke a tad too soon. Adobe has extended the AI-enhanced capabilities of its Photoshop image editing software to include instant sky replacement, some super-easy selection tools and some early Neural Filters, including emotion editing.

Luminar AI allows super-fast, slider-based sky replacement and relighting of images

Photography

LuminarAI: AI photo editing will make Photoshop look like a stone axe

LuminarAI will be the first image editing tool of its kind: a creative direction engine that harnesses artificial intelligence to work over your images in a variety of dramatic and impressive ways with full control but no hands-on work whatsoever.

The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will be made available for healthcare researchers "using AI to solve pressing medical challenges, including those presented by COVID-19"

Computers

Nvidia aims to build UK's most powerful supercomputer by end of 2020

Nvidia has announced that it has invested nearly US$52 million to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2020, and will be made available to healthcare researchers and academics.

MIT scientists have developed a new machine learning tool that assesses fluid buildup in the lungs

Medical

Machine learning tool scans lung X-rays to predict heart failure

One of the ways physicians can gain some forewarning of impending heart failure is through the detection of excess fluid in the lungs, and MIT researchers have developed a new machine learning tool that could offer them a helping hand.

An AI system can identify degrees of loneliness in older adults by analyzing natural language patterns

Health & Wellbeing

AI system detects loneliness in natural speech patterns

A new proof of concept study, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, has demonstrated how speech-analyzing artificial intelligence tools can effectively predict the level of loneliness in older adults.

The smartphone mounted to the back of the Alice Camera module serves as a real-time viewfinder and settings control

Photography

Alice Camera marries MFT sensor, AI smarts and smartphone control

A London startup is developing an interchangeable lens camera unit called Alice that features a Micro Four Thirds sensor and has a smartphone mounted to the back which is used as a live viewfinder and for settings control.

As a proof-of-concept, a new algorithm establishes that heart disease can be detected using facial analysis

Medical

Potential for "selfies" to detect heart disease raises ethical concerns

A new algorithm has been developed to detect coronary artery disease solely from patient facial photos. The algorithm needs more refinement but experts suggest there are ethical considerations to resolve before a system like this can be deployed.

A new study found AI-produced MRI images were indistinguishable from traditionally generated images

Medical

Facebook AI produces accurate MRI images 4 times faster than current tech

A new study has validated the efficacy of a novel AI algorithm designed to deliver accurate MRI results using a quarter of the data of current systems. This innovation promises to speed up MRI scans without upgrades to pre-existing imaging hardware.

"At DJI Education, we strive to continue to be at the forefront of education innovation. It’s key for us to invest in the next generation of tech innovators by entering the education market supporting and providing tools at a pivotal age," said Jianrong Gao, head of DJI Education.

Robotics

DJI sets up education branch, launches first product

DJI is probably best known for its drones, but last year it launched an educational robot platform named after its annual RomoMaster Robotics Competition. Now the S1 has been joined by the EP Core, the first product in DJI's new Education branch.

The system images a great tit, making note of the plumage pattern on its back

Science

Bird-identifying AI could put an end to leg bands

If you saw a finch once, chances are you'd have great difficulty picking it out from a group of finches later on. A new AI-based system can do just that, though, potentially making life much easier for both biologists and the birds that they study.

Skydio has put its extraordinary AI autonomous flight capabilities into an industrial-grade drone with the X2

Drones

Skydio X2 can autonomously build 3D point-maps of complex objects

Skydio is leveraging the power of what it calls "the most advanced AI device ever shipped" to make its enterprise-grade X2 drone a nigh-on uncrashable machine with some pretty amazing autonomous 3D point-mapping capabilities.

Drones

AI system could locate pilots of intrusive drones

When an unauthorized drone is being flown in a restricted airspace, the authorities understandably want to locate its operator. A new AI-based system may allow them to do so, succeeding where other technologies fail.