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Mysterious 'humanoid' figures discovered in Peru
Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 18 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Over 140 mysterious new geoglyphs have been discovered in Nazca, Peru, including strange'humanoid' figures. Researchers from Japan's Yamagata University discovered 142 new glyphs. An additional new geoglyph was discovered using artificial intelligence from IBM Japan and the tech giant's Watson supercomputer, which helped researchers reveal the location of the humanoid figure, who appears to be brandishing some form of club.
Google Stadia video game streaming service goes live Tuesday with 22 games
The other streaming war โ bringing video games to the cloud โ is heating up. Google flips the switch Tuesday on its Stadia cloud gaming service, which lets you stream games to your television, computer, tablet and Android phone. Stadia lets you play marquee video games without the need of a game console or PC to house the game. Instead your game resides on Google's expansive array of data servers. As part of the monthly subscription fee, Stadia stores your games and connects you with other gamers in games that support multiplayer gaming.
AI is digitally pasting products into your favourite films and TV
Ad blockers aren't going to be useful for much longer. Major entertainment companies including NBC Universal and 20th Century Fox are now using artificial intelligence to digitally insert advertisements and products into movies and TV shows after they have been filmed. The firms are using technology developed by UK company Mirriad to insert flat posters on buildings, walls and buses in already-filmed scenes and even to add 3D objects. It has the potential to make advertising more targeted and ubiquitous than ever before, and also virtually impossible to avoid.
Microsoft 'Week of AI' virtual workshop series
There are 5 modules of 2.5 hours duration each; and include live demos, quiz and hands-on assignments. Each session will be introduced by an opening core-note by leading data scientists and AI influencers. Season 2 of Microsoft'Week of AI' will focus on skilling with deep technical sessions on data science and conversational AI. The content is designed to prepare the attendees for industry recognized certifications. Season 1 of'Week of AI' sessions covered the basics of AI and introduction to data science and machine learning.
How to Rid Artificial Intelligence of Human Prejudice OpenMind
In 2015, Google had to issue an apology when its photo app mistook a black user for a gorilla--revealing that algorithms are not free of bias, despite their apparent impartiality. The incident brought attention to a problem which had been slowly developing for years. Already in 2009, asiatic users reported that a digital camera was asking them not to blink when they took a photograph with their eyes open. The camera was sold by Nikon, a japanese firm. It's not surprising that artificial intelligence (AI) programs have inherited society's biases, conscious or not, given that they are trained on human decisions and on datasets collected by people.
Mindtech Announces Enhanced Scalability Support for Chameleon
Mindtech Global Ltd, a UK based start-up, has announced container support to allow running multiple instances of their Chameleon synthetic data generation tool on clustered platforms. This approach enables full use of available compute resources leading to a significant reduction in training cycle times for neural networks using Synthetic data. Mindtech's Chameleon was built from the outset with the capability to scale for generating large amounts of data to meet the demands of training visual neural networks for AI systems. The simulator incorporates a scripting engine, enabling easy capabilities for repeated simulation runs, changing single variables at a time. The scenario editor is intended to allow the quick and easy creation of multiple different sequences, to create the data required for the intended use case.
Ray Kurzweil (USA) at Ci2019 - The Future of Intelligence, Artificial and Natural
Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America." Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Ray's many honors, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding.