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5 Examples of Modern Artificial Intelligence in Action
Unless you've been living under a rock, probably been reading and seeing a lot about artificial intelligence. And even if that's the case, AI has probably invaded your consciousness in one form or another. People have a lot of different conceptions of AI. For some, it means the end of the world is nigh: The robot revolution will be rising and annihilating humanity any day now. While it's impossible to rule anything out, artificial intelligence is really meant to help us make systems more efficient.
Robot Strippers Are Here
It's 2018 and robots are already driving cars, writing symphonies, and even penning news stories like this one. Now, apparently, our silicon friends are going to start stripping for us, too. According to the New York Post, a Las Vegas strip club will feature a pair of android dancers on the poles in honor of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show this week. The robot strippers are more of a publicity stunt than an actual attempt to be titillating, since they have the heads of security cameras and look like bad Banksy graffiti come to life. But the Sapphire Gentlemen's Club apparently figures it'll be a fun way to bring in some folks from CES this year.
[P] I've got 1k to pay somebody to help me put together an art project using human pose estimation. โข r/MachineLearning
I don't really belong here, considering I barely know how to write some code. But I'm not sure where to look for help building a project where I am trying to utilize Human Pose Estimation and/or skeleton tracking. I've got some funding to pay somebody who is interested in helping, now I just don't know where to find that person, so I thought I'd look here. Here is a video that tries to explain what the project will work like in its final form. Again, I'm just one solitary dude trying to make an interactive media project and I'm a bit over my head. So any suggestions on where to find help would be greatly appreciated.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity and fire
Make no mistake about how seriously Google is taking artificial intelligence. "AI is one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Friday as part of a new show hosted by MSNBC's Ari Melber and Recode's Kara Swisher. "Fire's pretty good," Swisher said. "But it kills people, too. They learn to harness fire for the benefits of humanity, but we have to overcome its downsides, too," he said.
[D] Cross Validation and t-SNE: How to combine all models for visualization? โข r/MachineLearning
I have a classifier that was trained with 10-fold cross validation. I have been averaging the predictions for the 10 models to calculate things like test-set accuracy. I wanted to visualize the feature vector of my classifier using t-SNE. What is the best way to combine all 10 models? I tried concatting all of my normalized feature vectors together across all 10 models, but t-SNE can just pick out all 10 of them and separate them that way.
CafeMedia Uses Watson AI To Power Context-Driven Private Marketplaces AdExchanger
Food brands that want their ad creative to appear next to recipes for quick and easy dinners, Japanese food or gluten-free meals can buy inventory via CafeMedia's private marketplaces that fits into those content categories. CafeMedia created those content categories using IBM Watson's artificial intelligence (AI). Traditionally, companies use content management systems to categorize and tag content. But CafeMedia acquired blogging network AdThrive last October, giving it access to 1,500 bloggers focused on food, family and home content. All of those bloggers used different content management systems and formats for their posts.
Microsoft's AI is a robo Van Gogh that could change how designers work
Microsoft has developed an AI to draw entirely original images based on nothing more than text. You type it, a computer draws it, and we're one step closer to a world where using software like Photoshop and Illustrator is a hands-off experience. Researchers created a text-to-image bot that spits out pretty amazing images when fed a series of descriptive words like "this bird is red with white and has a very short beak." This was accomplished through the creation of neural network called an Attentional Generative Adversarial Network (AttnGAN) that creates the image pixel-by-pixel. Like any other artist or designer, it does both broad strokes and fine details in layers.