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ScienceArchaeology

How AI Is Deciphering Lost Scrolls From the Roman Empire

The Herculaneum papyri were too fragile to unwrap for centuries. Now, they may not have to be.

By Isaac Schultz Published August 28, 2024
ScienceHealth

This AI Can Tell if You Have Covid-19 Just by Listening to Your Cough, Researchers Say

It feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady stream of chamomile tea. Thankfully, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they figured out a way to gauge whether a person has covid-19 just from the sound of their cough, so … Continued

By Alyse Stanley Published October 31, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Nvidia Wants to Eliminate Compression During Video Calls by Using Neural Networks to Perfectly Render Your Face

There are a thousand reasons to hate hopping on a video call every 10 minutes to chat with your co-workers, among them the ugly video compression artifacts that can occasionally make your face completely unrecognizable. Nvidia has a potential solution to the problem, but instead of fixing compression algorithms, it wants to use neural networks to … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published October 7, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled With AI Is as Close as You’ll Get to the Experience of Driving on the Moon

The last time astronauts walked on the moon was in December of 1972, decades before high-definition video cameras were available. They relied on low-res grainy analog film to record their adventures, which makes it hard for viewers to feel connected to what’s going on. But using modern AI techniques to upscale classic NASA footage and … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published July 9, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Disney’s Developed Movie-Quality Face-Swapping Technology That Promises to Change Filmmaking

In a few short years, neural-network-powered automated face swaps have gone from being mildly convincing to eerily believable. But through new research from Disney, neural face-swapping is poised to become a legitimate and high-quality tool for visual effects studios working on Hollywood blockbusters. One of the bigger challenges of creating deepfake videos, as they’ve come … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published June 29, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Google’s Art App Now Turns Your Selfies Into Famous Masterpieces

In what promises to be an excellent way to kill a solid 10 minutes, the Google Arts & Culture app has been updated with a new Art Transfer feature that will apply the look of countless famous paintings and artists to your own photos using machine learning techniques. The last time you opened the Google … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published April 2, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Terrifying Things Happen When an AI Generates Fake Faces Synced to Music

We’re still trying to figure out the best applications for neural networks, machine learning, and all the recent advancements in artificial intelligence. Amongst all the practical research being conducted, there’s also lots of frivolous experimentation being done with results that walk the line between fascinating and terrifying. Automated image processing has emerged as a strong … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published March 31, 2020
Tech NewsNews

AI Trained on Moon Craters Is Helping Find Unexploded Bombs From the Vietnam War

There’s still no completely safe and surefire method for locating unexploded ordinance after a war is over, but researchers at Ohio State University have found a way to harness image processing algorithms, powered by machine learning, to study satellite imagery and locate hot spots where UXO are likely to be located. The researchers focused their … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published March 26, 2020
io9Toys and Collectibles

11 of the Coolest Builds By Bored People With a Lot of Lego Bricks

There are a lot of reasons why Lego remains one of the world’s most popular toys, over 3,700, in fact: the number of unique Lego pieces that have been created over the decades. It allows everything from Batmobiles, to excavators, to Kessel running space ships to be built from plastic bricks, but Lego can be … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published March 25, 2020
Tech NewsFakes

This VFX Team Made a Tupac Deepfake to Rap with Snoop Dogg

I’m going to go ahead and file that under “headlines I never imagined I’d be writing in 2020.” For his newest music video, rapper Snoop Dogg commissioned the production studio Corridor Digital to bring Tupac Shakur back to life through the wonders of technology. His vision: Splicing a deepfake Tupac into the rapper’s final interview … Continued

By Alyse Stanley Published March 7, 2020
Tech NewsNews

This Office Space Meets The Matrix Deepfake Deserves a Theatrical Release

The deepfake hits just keep on coming. Following an excellent reimagining of Back to the Future where Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox are replaced with Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland, another talented deepfaker has put Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving into Office Space, creating the fourth Matrix film we really deserve. YouTube deepfaker … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published February 18, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone

There are lots of valid reasons to be worried about how deep learning techniques could potentially be used to manipulate footage for nefarious reasons. But as Denis Shiryaev demonstrates by upscaling some old black and white film footage from 1896, those AI-powered tools can also be a powerful way to bring the past back to … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published February 4, 2020
Tech NewsArtificial Intelligence

WTF Is an Artificial Human and Where Did They Come From?

Neon is the name of the company and also the name of its only product—if you can call it that. I’m told a Neon is a living entity, but it doesn’t have a physical body. I’m told a Neon is computationally created, but it’s not an AI assistant. So what the fuck is Neon and … Continued

By Sam Rutherford Published January 8, 2020
Tech NewsNews

Nvidia Taught an AI to Instantly Generate Fully-Textured 3D Models From Flat 2D Images

Turning a sketch or photo of an object into a fully realized 3D model so that it can be duplicated using a 3D printer, played in a video game, or brought to life in a movie through visual effects, requires the skills of a digital modeler working from a stack of images. But Nvidia has … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published December 9, 2019
io9Toys and Collectibles

A Neural Network Powers This Lego-Built Brick Sorter That Can Recognize Every Piece Ever Made

Lego becomes more and more enjoyable as your collection grows, until the point when your morass of plastic bricks becomes so overwhelming that it’s impossible to find the piece you’re looking for. At that point, you need to develop a sorting system, or do what Daniel West did, and use a bunch of your Lego … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published December 6, 2019
Tech NewsNews

Deep Learning Is Making Video Game Characters Move Like Real People

As video games give players more freedom to explore complex digital worlds, it becomes more challenging for a CG character to naturally move and interact with everything in it. So to prevent those awkward transitions between pre-programmed movements, researchers have turned to AI and deep learning to make video game characters move almost as realistically … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published October 30, 2019
Tech NewsGoogle

Google Tweaks Search to Better Understand Your Gibberish Queries

Searching for information online sometimes takes creativity—depending on how you word a query, Google can bring back some wonky results. That’s why Google announced today that it’s improved search to better understand natural language for “queries [it] can’t anticipate.” Part of the issue is that we imperfect humans don’t always know how to spell what … Continued

By Victoria Song Published October 25, 2019
Tech NewsNews

Google May Have Used Your Mannequin Challenge Videos to Train AI

Remember back in 2016 when everybody was posting those Mannequin Challenge videos? Well, it turns out that instead of collecting dust in Ye Olde Meme Archive, Google researchers are using the videos to help train robots to better navigate their surroundings. While humans are naturally able to look at a 2D video and understand it … Continued

By Victoria Song Published June 27, 2019
Tech NewsNews

A New Method Of Spotting Deepfake Videos Looks For the Subtle Movements We Don’t Realize We Make

The quality and speed at which videos can now be faked using neural networks and deep learning processes promises to make the upcoming presidential election even more of a nightmare. But by exploiting something overlooked in current deepfake techniques, researchers have found an automated way to spot fake videos. Deepfake videos are far from perfect … Continued

By Andrew Liszewski Published June 21, 2019
Tech NewsNews

MIT Is Teaching the Machines How to Make Pizza Based On a Single Photo

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) can do a lot of things—it’s basically the type of machine learning used to generate realistic AI faces and deepfakes. But researchers at MIT are using GAN to do the holy, blessed work of building a neural network to teach computers how to make pizza. The study is titled “How to … Continued

By Victoria Song Published June 19, 2019

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