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Make-a-video: The AI Film Maker!

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Meta AI's new model make-a-video is out, and in a single sentence: it generates videos from the text. It's not only able to generate videos, but it's also the new state-of-the-art method, producing higher quality and more coherent videos than ever before! You can see this model as a stable diffusion model for videos. Surely the next step after being able to generate images. This is all information you must've seen already on a news website or just by reading the title of the article, but what you don't know yet is what it is exactly and how it works.


Women don't need special treatment and are immensely talented: Vijayashree Natarajan …

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Her life, presently, she says, is all about AI, automation, and ML (machine learning), and finds it an absolute delight to be able to work on …


Ex Machina: Ava The Final Girl

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After I watched Men, I went to see what others had to say about it, and the first place I went to was a recorded conversion about the film on Diregentleman's channel. Toward the end of the conversation, Henry Galley says Men further diminished Garland's previous two films. Personally, I didn't get that in regards to Annihilation, but Ex Machina, on the other hand, I hadn't seen before. I did not watch Garland's directorial debut in 2014. And my reason is that I have been obsessed with pop culture about robotic A.I. ever since I was a kid from Astro Boy (circa.


When Infodemic Meets Epidemic: a Systematic Literature Review

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Epidemics and outbreaks present arduous challenges requiring both individual and communal efforts. Social media offer significant amounts of data that can be leveraged for bio-surveillance. They also provide a platform to quickly and efficiently reach a sizeable percentage of the population, hence their potential impact on various aspects of epidemic mitigation. The general objective of this systematic literature review is to provide a methodical overview of the integration of social media in different epidemic-related contexts. Three research questions were conceptualized for this review, resulting in over 10000 publications collected in the first PRISMA stage, 129 of which were selected for inclusion. A thematic method-oriented synthesis was undertaken and identified 5 main themes related to social media enabled epidemic surveillance, misinformation management, and mental health. Findings uncover a need for more robust applications of the lessons learned from epidemic post-mortem documentation. A vast gap exists between retrospective analysis of epidemic management and result integration in prospective studies. Harnessing the full potential of social media in epidemic related tasks requires streamlining the results of epidemic forecasting, public opinion understanding and misinformation propagation, all while keeping abreast of potential mental health implications. Pro-active prevention has thus become vital for epidemic curtailment and containment.


And what if two musical versions don't share melody, harmony, rhythm, or lyrics ?

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Version identification (VI) has seen substantial progress over the past few years. On the one hand, the introduction of the metric learning paradigm has favored the emergence of scalable yet accurate VI systems. On the other hand, using features focusing on specific aspects of musical pieces, such as melody, harmony, or lyrics, yielded interpretable and promising performances. In this work, we build upon these recent advances and propose a metric learning-based system systematically leveraging four dimensions commonly admitted to convey musical similarity between versions: melodic line, harmonic structure, rhythmic patterns, and lyrics. We describe our deliberately simple model architecture, and we show in particular that an approximated representation of the lyrics is an efficient proxy to discriminate between versions and non-versions. We then describe how these features complement each other and yield new state-of-the-art performances on two publicly available datasets. We finally suggest that a VI system using a combination of melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and lyrics features could theoretically reach the optimal performances obtainable on these datasets.


Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarisation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We introduce the task of microblog opinion summarisation (MOS) and share a dataset of 3100 gold-standard opinion summaries to facilitate research in this domain. The dataset contains summaries of tweets spanning a 2-year period and covers more topics than any other public Twitter summarisation dataset. Summaries are abstractive in nature and have been created by journalists skilled in summarising news articles following a template separating factual information (main story) from author opinions. Our method differs from previous work on generating gold-standard summaries from social media, which usually involves selecting representative posts and thus favours extractive summarisation models. To showcase the dataset's utility and challenges, we benchmark a range of abstractive and extractive state-of-the-art summarisation models and achieve good performance, with the former outperforming the latter. We also show that fine-tuning is necessary to improve performance and investigate the benefits of using different sample sizes.


Reasons behind the Limited Use of Artificial Intelligence in Latin American Media

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Journalists are automating processes and using systems that mimic human behavior to design tasks related to news gathering, content creation, distribution, marketing, and subscriptions in Latin America. FREMONT, CA: Artificial intelligence (AI) has stopped merely being a science fiction component and has become a reality in recent years. Automation of processes and the creation of systems that mimic human behavior have reached journalism and are being used to design tasks of news gathering, content creation, distribution, marketing, and subscriptions. Automating processes and creating systems that mimic human behavior have reached journalism. The use of AI is currently somewhat limited, despite its enormous potential, and the region is ravenous for information regarding the subject.


Contrastive Domain Adaptation for Early Misinformation Detection: A Case Study on COVID-19

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Despite recent progress in improving the performance of misinformation detection systems, classifying misinformation in an unseen domain remains an elusive challenge. To address this issue, a common approach is to introduce a domain critic and encourage domain-invariant input features. However, early misinformation often demonstrates both conditional and label shifts against existing misinformation data (e.g., class imbalance in COVID-19 datasets), rendering such methods less effective for detecting early misinformation. In this paper, we propose contrastive adaptation network for early misinformation detection (CANMD). Specifically, we leverage pseudo labeling to generate high-confidence target examples for joint training with source data. We additionally design a label correction component to estimate and correct the label shifts (i.e., class priors) between the source and target domains. Moreover, a contrastive adaptation loss is integrated in the objective function to reduce the intra-class discrepancy and enlarge the inter-class discrepancy. As such, the adapted model learns corrected class priors and an invariant conditional distribution across both domains for improved estimation of the target data distribution. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CANMD, we study the case of COVID-19 early misinformation detection and perform extensive experiments using multiple real-world datasets. The results suggest that CANMD can effectively adapt misinformation detection systems to the unseen COVID-19 target domain with significant improvements compared to the state-of-the-art baselines.


Deep Learning

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Deep learning is the sub-field of Machine Learning (ML). If you don't know about Machine Learning, refer to my previous article on Machine Learning. Deep Learning (also called Deep Structured Learning) is a sub-field of Machine Learning methods based on artifical neural network (describe later) with features learning (it is a technique that allows a system to automatically discover the representation needed for classification from raw data). Deep Learning is a subset of ML, which is essentially a neural network with a stack of layers. These neural networks attempt to simulate the behavior of the human brain -- albeit far from matching its ability -- allowing it to "learn" from large amounts of data.


Make-a-video: The AI Film Maker!

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Meta AI's new model make-a-video is out and in a single sentence: it generates videos from text. It's not only able to generate videos, but it's also the new state-of-the-art method, producing higher quality and more coherent videos than ever before! You can see this model as a stable diffusion model for videos. Surely the next step after being able to generate images. This is all information you must've seen already on a news website or just by reading the title of the article, but what you don't know yet is what it is exactly and how it works.