Using advances in artificial intelligence engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on a new type of walking cane for blind or visually impaired.
Tel Aviv University researchers have achieved a technological-biological breakthrough: in response to the presence of an odor, the new biological sensor sends data that the robot is able to detect and interpret.
Text-to-speech models usually require significantly longer training samples, while VALL-E creates a much more natural-sounding synthetic voice from just a few seconds.
Researchers from Stanford University developed a new type of stretchable biocompatible material that gets sprayed on the back of the hand and can recognize its movements.
Point·E is a new system for text-conditional synthesis of 3D point clouds that first generates synthetic views and then generates colored point clouds conditioned on these views.
Self-driving cars have long been considered the next generation mode of transportation. To enable autonomous navigation of such vehicles numerous different technologies need to be implemented.
New research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses machine learning, data analysis and artificial intelligence to identify potential nuclear threats.
Researchers have discovered new ways for retailers to use AI in conjunction with in-store cameras to better understand consumer behavior and adapt store layouts to maximize sales.
Decoding speech based on brain activity has been a long-established goal of neuroscientists and clinicians. Nowdays, Meta is working on an AI model that can decode speech from noninvasive recordings of brain activity to help people after traumatic brain injury.
Look to Speak is designed to help those with motor function impairments and speech difficulties to communicate more easily. The app lets people use their eyes to select pre-written phrases and have them spoken out loud.
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that precisely collects and models the underlying acoustics of a location from just a limited number of sound recordings.
By 2050 humanity will have to almost double the global food supply to make sure that every dweller of the planet has enough food. With climate change going at increasing speed, water resources drop and arable lands erode, doing that sustainably will be a huge challenge for us.
During the last decade, one of the biggest issues in the gaming industry is the explosive growth of the AAA video games production cost. Studios are always on the look-up for technologies that could help bring down the cost of game development. Recent advances in the neural image generation models bring some hope that the realization of this dream may be not so far away.
Can computers think? Can AI models be conscious? These and similar questions often pop up in discussions of recent AI progress, achieved by natural language models GPT-3, LAMDA and other transformers. They are nonetheless still controversial and on the brink of a paradox, because there are usually many hidden assumptions and misconceptions about how the brain works and what thinking means. There is no other way, but to explicitly reveal these assumptions and then explore how the human information processing could be replicated by machines.
Now you won’t surprise anyone with filters that improve the quality of photos. But the restoration of old portraits still leaves much to be desired. Older photos tend to be too blurry, so normal image sharpening methods won't work on them.