Researchers have shown that they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to restore low-quality photos by exposing a neural network to only other low-quality photos, according to work presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Stockholm. The research was developed by representatives from Nvidia, a Santa Clara, California-based technology company, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Aalto University in Greater Helsinki, Finland. The team was able to clean up "grainy" photos by using deep learning to train the neural network with more than 50,000 example images, as explained in a news release from Nvidia. As the authors explained, their work has potential to be used in numerous industries, including radiology. "There are several real-world situations where obtaining clean training data is difficult: low-light photography (e.g., astronomical imaging), physically-based rendering, and magnetic resonance imaging," wrote author Jaakko Lehtinen, an associate professor at Aalto University, and colleagues.

First it was age-old board games and boring office jobs, but now it seems robots are gearing up to take over Hollywood. Following up the stunning success of its debut short movie from last year, Sunspring, the script-writing artificial intelligence Benjamin is back with yet another sci-fi flick. Directed by Oscar Sharp and starring Baywatch icon David Hasselhoff, It's No Game takes us to an alternate reality where, in midst of heated writer's strike in Hollywood, AI script writers have gradually began to replace human ones. Using an advanced nanobot technology, producers have found a way to channel the inner thoughts and mannerism of the AI writers directly to human actors, causing them to act out borderline non-sensical lines put together by various algorithms trained on Shakespeare, Aaron Sorkin and Golden Age Hollywood movies. Accompanying Hasselhoff in It's No Game's cast are Flesh and Bone's Sarah Hay, The Walking Dead's Thomas Payne as well as Tom Guinee.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new artificial intelligence system detects and displays people's personality traits from only a photo of their face. The system, called Biometric Mirror, investigates a person's understanding of AI and their response to information about their unique traits--which may or may not be correct. When someone stands in front of Biometric Mirror, the system detects a range of facial characteristics in seconds. It then compares the user's data to that of thousands of facial photos, which a group of crowd-sourced responders evaluated for their psychometrics.

Light, on the other hand, travels 186,282 miles in a second. Imagine the possibilities if we were that quick-witted. Well, computers are getting there. Researchers from UCLA on Thursday revealed a 3D-printed, optical neural network that allows computers to solve complex mathematical computations at the speed of light. In other words, we don't stand a chance.

Thirty years ago, artificial intelligence was still seen as something only found in science fiction novels. As the world continues to move rapidly towards AI machines, there is one group of individuals who believe that AI can provide more opportunities for the human race, while others believe artificially intelligent machines would destroy the human race if not handled appropriately. It may be a while before this concern is a reality. For now, there are many companies who are creating products based on AI technology and television shows that are giving us a glimpse of what artificial intelligence could look like. While some shows failed to show this in a realistic way, others are almost indistinguishable from actual humans.

Amazon collects a lot of data on its shoppers and that data can say a lot about you. Below are some ways you can protect your privacy. The items we buy say a lot about our lifestyles, our finances, and our domestic lives. If you have an Amazon account, the amount of data that the retail giant collects is astonishing. Many people don't know you get much more than just free two-day shipping with a Prime account.

According to the Times, true artificial intelligence is just around the corner. A year ago, the paper ran a front-page story about the wonders of new technologies, including deep learning, a neurally-inspired A.I. technique for statistical analysis. Then, among others, came an article about how I.B.M.'s Watson had been repurposed into a chef, followed by an upbeat post about quantum computation. On Sunday, the paper ran a front-page story about "biologically inspired processors," "brainlike computers" that learn from experience. This past Sunday's story, by John Markoff, announced that "computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head."

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece that detailed how companies that provide email-based services scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users. Their service agreements make it clear that they require access to your email so that their artificial intelligence algorithms can provide you with smart features such as price comparisons, automated calendar scheduling and more. What they don't tell you is that in some cases, their employees read your emails too, because their AI just can't perform as promised and it needs humans to fill the gap where it falls short. One of the companies presented in the Wall Street Journal article uses AI to add a "smart reply" feature to your email, which can make a big difference if you're managing your account from a mobile device.

Alicia Silverstone's bubble-headed Cher, from the 1995 comedy Clueless, would go gonzo over Amazon's hands-free camera, the Echo Look. She said in the film: "I don't rely on mirrors, so I always take Polaroids." That girl knew a mirror distorts your image, but a picture--or, better yet, a video clip--gives you a pretty good idea of how your clothing looks to other people. The Echo Look is a $200 voice-activated camera that snaps full-body photos and six-second video clips of your daily looks. It comes with a companion app that does two things: It tracks what you wear each day, and it uses that information to offer up fashion advice (including suggestions of complementary togs you can buy from Amazon). Announced in April 2017, but until recently available for purchase only by invitation, the Look is a significant departure from the rest of the Echo lineup.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has developed an AI tool (artificial intelligence) capable of producing 20,000 lines of content per second. Created as part of Alibaba's digital marketing unit Alimama, the tool aims to reduce the heavy and arduous workload of producing copy for product listings by retailers, working by scraping "millions" of existing human writing samples from the company's e-commerce platforms which it interprets using deep-learning models and natural language processing (NLP) technologies. According to Alibaba, the AI tool has passed the Turing Test where a machine is analysed for its ability to imitate a human without detection and is already being used "millions of times a day" by retailers on its properties including Tmall, Mei.com, 1699.com and Taobao. Global fashion brands Esprit and Dickies are two such retailers already using the tool, which can be accessed by selecting an option to'Produce Smart Copy', allowing them to choose from samples of varying tones including "promotional, functional, fun, poetic, or heartwarming". While the release of Alibaba's AI tool will be welcome news for retailers, it may result in some sweaty palms among copywriters.