One of the most interesting sessions at Adobe MAX is traditionally the Sneaks keynote, where engineers from the company's various units show off their most cutting-edge work. These days, a lot of the work focuses on AI, often based on the Adobe Sensei platform. This year, the company gave us an early look at Project Sweet Talk, one of the featured sneaks of tonight's event. The idea here is pretty straightforward, but hard to pull off: take a portrait, either a drawing or a painting, identify the different parts of the face, then animate the mouth in sync with a voice-over. Today, Adobe's Character Animator (which you may have seen on shows like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) does some of that, but it's limited in the number of animations, and the result, even in the hands of the best animators, doesn't always look all that realistic (as far as that's possible for the kind of drawings you animate in the product).

Once upon a time, projectors were big, clunky, and, well, not exactly easy to move around if you want to watch the big game in your backyard or a movie at a friend's house. However, portable projectors have come a long way and Anker's Nebula Capsule II Smart Mini Projector is a solid bet. The Anker projector, which runs Android TV, is lightweight, works with Google Assistant, and has an auto-focus function that automatically adjusts the screen size to your projector screen within a second, not to mention other features that deliver a sharp and clear picture. I've been in the market for a smart projector so I can watch my favorite teams play and watch movies outside. I had high hopes of testing the Nebula Capsule II against a large projection screen in my backyard, but due to the high Florida humidity--and unbearable October heat--I decided to stick to testing the smart projector indoors. There are a few bare white walls in my house, so I set this projector up in my living room and got to testing.

It's no longer a secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. What once was a puzzling and rather niche area of computer science, has suddenly started to take over our lives with its many applications. As a result, due to this mysterious and unknown characteristic of AI and its more prominent child, machine learning, news sites, and the press, in general, have taken a liking on overstating the reality behind the successes or advances in the field. This phenomenon often leads to articles of an unsavory nature that seems to sensationalize and even fearmonger what's genuinely going on. In this essay, I want to shed some light on this issue.

It's no longer a secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. What once was a puzzling and rather niche area of computer science, has suddenly started to take over our lives with its many applications. As a result, due to this mysterious and unknown characteristic of AI and its more prominent child, machine learning, news sites, and the press, in general, have taken a liking on overstating the reality behind the successes or advances in the field. This phenomenon often leads to articles of an unsavory nature that seems to sensationalize and even fearmonger what's genuinely going on. In this essay, I want to shed some light on this issue.

Deployed for healthcare, environmental and even bartending duties around the world, robots have just been enlisted to sort through waste flowing through a Florida recycling plant, where they perform faster and safer than humanly possible. The 14 high-speed, precision robots installed this summer at Single Stream Recyclers (SSR) in Sarasota are guided by an artificial intelligence platform that applies computer vision and machine learning to direct the robots' rapid-fire movements. "The average human can pick 30-40 items per minute. The robots can pick 80 items per minute," said John Hansen, co-owner of SSR, which processes materials from numerous Southwest Florida communities at its nearly 100,000-square-foot recovery facility. Developed by Denver-based AMP Robotics, the robots identify and sort plastics, cartons, paper, cardboard, metals and other materials streaming through their cube-like housing.

Splitting a song into separate vocals and instruments has always been a headache for producers, DJs, and anyone else who wants to play around with isolated audio. There are lots of ways to do it but the process can be time-consuming and the results often imperfect. A new open source AI tool makes this tricky task faster and easier. The software is called Spleeter and was developed by music streaming service Deezer for research purposes. Yesterday the company released it as an open source package, putting the code up on Github for anyone to download and use.

Election officials and social media firms already flummoxed by hackers, trolls and bots are bracing for a potentially more potent weapon of disinformation as the 2020 election approaches -- doctored videos, known as "deep fakes," that can be nearly impossible to detect as inauthentic. In tech company board rooms, university labs and Pentagon briefings, technologists on the front lines of cybersecurity have sounded alarms over the threat, which they say has increased markedly as the technology to make convincing fakes has become increasingly available. On Tuesday, leaders in artificial intelligence plan to unveil a tool to push back -- it includes scanning software that UC Berkeley has been developing in partnership with the U.S. military, which the industry will start providing to journalists and political operatives. The goal is to give the media and campaigns a chance to screen possible fake videos before they could throw an election into chaos. The software is among the first significant efforts to arm reporters and campaigns with tools to combat deep fakes.

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Technology's fine--I definitely like texting, and some of the shows on Netflix are tolerable--but the field's got some serious kinks to work out. Some of these are hardware-related: when, for instance, will quantum computing become practical? Others are of more immediate concern. Is there some way to stop latently homicidal weirdos from getting radicalized online? Can social networks be tweaked in such a way as to not nearly guarantee the outbreak of the second Civil War?

Along with innovative services, AI is helping the M&E industry to take big strides towards a bright and profitable future. FREMONT, CA: The media and entertainment sector is experiencing a wave of transformations with the accelerated adoption of advanced technologies. Artificial intelligence, being one of the most impressive technologies, is already an impactful part of the industry. The advanced technology gives machines cognitive powers, which is so beneficial to businesses that CIOs have been giving it the highest priority lately. The M&E CIOs who have led their organizations towards embracing AI has enjoyed exceptional success in the form of improved quality of services and accelerated growth.