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Andrea Vattani, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Spiketrap – Interview Series
Andrea Vattani, is the Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Spiketrap, a contextualization company powering audience intelligence and media performance for creators, platforms, and brands. What initially attracted you to computer science and AI? It was a combination of fortuitous circumstances, I showed up at the University of Rome to take the Statistics major admission test, and it turned out I was a day late! I was advised to apply for Computer Science instead and move back to the Statistics department a year later. I went to the Computer Science admission test (which was that day!) and passed it… never moved back to Statistics! My interest in AI really started with realizing how computers can help you automate things, and AI is the ultimate automation machinery.
Visualizing Ensemble Predictions of Music Mood
Music mood classification has been a challenging problem in comparison with some other classification problems (e.g., genre, composer, or period). One solution for addressing this challenging is to use an of ensemble machine learning models. In this paper, we show that visualization techniques can effectively convey the popular prediction as well as uncertainty at different music sections along the temporal axis, while enabling the analysis of individual ML models in conjunction with their application to different musical data. In addition to the traditional visual designs, such as stacked line graph, ThemeRiver, and pixel-based visualization, we introduced a new variant of ThemeRiver, called "dual-flux ThemeRiver", which allows viewers to observe and measure the most popular prediction more easily than stacked line graph and ThemeRiver. Testing indicates that visualizing ensemble predictions is helpful both in model-development workflows and for annotating music using model predictions.
Efficient Dynamic Graph Representation Learning at Scale
Chen, Xinshi, Zhu, Yan, Xu, Haowen, Liu, Mengyang, Xiong, Liang, Zhang, Muhan, Song, Le
Dynamic graphs with ordered sequences of events between nodes are prevalent in real-world industrial applications such as e-commerce and social platforms. However, representation learning for dynamic graphs has posed great computational challenges due to the time and structure dependency and irregular nature of the data, preventing such models from being deployed to real-world applications. To tackle this challenge, we propose an efficient algorithm, Efficient Dynamic Graph lEarning (EDGE), which selectively expresses certain temporal dependency via training loss to improve the parallelism in computations. We show that EDGE can scale to dynamic graphs with millions of nodes and hundreds of millions of temporal events and achieve new state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance.
Legendary musicians Duran Duran and artificial mind Huxley collaborate on an NFT photography…
When you hear the name Huxley, one of the first things that comes to mind is the classic dystopian novel, Brave New World. Set in the not so distant future, we are immersed into a world consumed and controlled by science and technology. Now, we are about to graced by that same imagination in the form of NFTs. Not the infamous author, but the artificial intelligence and programmable artist who lives in the Cloud. Designed by Nested Minds, Huxley is just what we described.
Apple Music's Siri-only plan is now available as iOS 15.2 rolls out
Apple has released its latest firmware updates for iPhone and iPad. One of the more notable features Apple is adding in iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 is the Voice Plan for Apple Music. For $5 per month, subscribers can access the full library of songs, playlists and radio stations via Siri. On iPhone and iPad, you'll be able to access an App Privacy Report, which provides details of the data that Apple and third-party apps accessed during the previous seven days. The report shows how often apps use things like location, photos, camera, microphone and contacts, as well as their network activity. Also new is Apple's Digital Legacy feature.
DJI's Excellent Mavic 3 Is on Another Plane
DJI may have dropped the "Pro" from the Mavic name with the third generation of its flagship drone, but make no mistake--with a brand-new, high-quality camera, two lenses, and full manual exposure control, the Mavic 3 is aimed squarely at video pros. It's a fun drone to fly, but the $2,200 price reflects the camera and lenses, not the flying capabilities. If your primary use for a drone is capturing high-quality photos and videos, this is the best drone on the market by a wide margin. Chances are you don't need footage this good, but it sure is fun and offers incredible results if you can afford it. The Mavic 3 is available in two versions: the standard model, which is what I tested, and a "Cine" version that adds more built-in storage (a 1-terabyte SSD to the standard's 8-gigabyte SSD), and support for ProRes 422 HQ video recording. The ProRes support is a big deal for video pros, and the file size of ProRes footage is the main reason for the larger SSD as well.
An AI trained on Reddit has warned researchers that it'll never be ethical
It did, however, say artificial intelligence stands more of a chance at being the best it can be if it's "embedded into our brains, as a conscious entity, a'conscious AI'". "This is not science fiction. The best minds in the world are working on this," it added, potentially referencing Elon Musk and Neuralink's brain-implanted microchips, which should be ready for use in humans next year. The Oxford Union also asked the AI to argue against the topic, to which it responded: "When I look at the way the tech world is going, I see a clear path to a future where AI is used to create something that is better than the best human beings. It's not hard to see why… I've seen it first hand."
Artificial Intelligence
A Lexus advertisement has become a part of folklore in advertisement circles. Well, it is the world's first ad to be scripted by AI. The system fed on data from many past advertisements of many other luxury products and came up with a script. The ad showed an engineer marveling at his creation who then turns sad as his creation, the automobile is taken away from him to be subjected to a grueling test. In the end, the power brakes that he has built into the car saves the day.
OiKe : the ultimate sensory experience on TV
TV can be considered as the container that keeps the essence of an era including our identity and culture; As we evolve as a society, TV is constantly reinventing itself. Our relationship with TV reflects how we integrate into a society, which is immersed more and more in technology. Against all odds, TV was not replaced by the new Information and Communication Technologies, but rather absorbed them organically, remaining, as well as the main space for creating experiences and community. That is why more than TEN generations have grown up in the warm light and soft static of their screen. The television retains the best demographers applied social science has to offer, and these researchers can determine precisely what Americans in 1990 are, want, see: what we as Audience want to see ourselves as.
Best TV 2021: our top 10 smart TVs
Looking for the best TV to buy this year? You've come to the right place. We've brought together the definitive list of the best TVs available to buy today from QLED and OLED TVs to new Mini LED contenders, all of which are smart TVs that offer great on-board streaming services. Every TV technology brings something different to the table but they all have similar key aims – to offer better contrast, better light control and more vibrant colors. Each of these is well worth your consideration because they can truly elevate your TV watching or gaming experience.