Media
Media synthesis and personalized content: my epiphany on GANs • r/artificial
Remember when Hayao Miyazaki called an AI-created animation "an insult to life itself?" The cold fact is that it's not going away. If anything, we're on the cusp of an era where AI-created media is dominant. Nvidia's new AI creates disturbingly convincing fake videos Researchers from Nvidia have created an image translation AI that will almost certainly have you second-guessing everything you see online. The system can change day into night, winter into summer, and house cats into cheetahs with minimal training materials.
[P] Going Deeper: Infinite Deep Neural Networks • r/MachineLearning
The described "meta-layer" with infinite many sub-layers has a ResNet-like structure (see Figure 3 on page 5 on the linked github page). This means every sub-layer has a structure like f(x) x g(x). Every new added layer, therefore, has this structure. To make the process of adding layers smoother there is a factor "d" between 0 and 1 added to this layer-defintion: f(x) x d*g(x). Usually "adding" (more correct: activating; because the model assumes that there are from the beginning infinite many layers) a new layer requires multiple iterations where "d" grows from 0 up to a value smaller than 1 (the limit is 1). Therefore, if a new layer is added, the value of "d" is very small, e.g.
Nvidia changed EULA - no deep learning on geforce gpus in datacenters • r/deeplearning
I feel as if this could be a good thing. It would keep the price down for the general consumer market. Else I'd fear supply/demand could drive the GTX1180 to be a $1000 card. It sucks because their price to performance ratio is way higher, but consumers can't afford the same as what corporations can.
Sick of the same old Christmas Carols? AI can write you a new tune
It's Christmas Day!! How many carol singers have you encountered so far this? Or how many times have you heard Michael Bublé on repeat? Whilst there's a new Christmas Number One every year, they're never particularly festive thanks to the X-Factor, and no one seems to be dedicating their time to creating a new generation of Christmas classics. What to do when humans are failing at a task? Last Christmas, Researchers from University of Toronto developed an AI system that composes and then sings a Christmas song through analysing an image that you upload.
AI Has Been Creating Music and the Results Are...Weird
In late May, a small crowd at St. Dunstan's church in East London's Stepney district gathered for two hours of traditional Irish music. But this event was different; the tunes it featured were composed, in part, by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, dubbed folk-rnn, a stark reminder of how cutting-edge AI is gradually permeating every aspect of human life and culture--even creativity. Developed by researchers at Kingston University and Queen Mary University of London, folk-rnn is one of numerous projects exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative arts. Folk-rnn's performance was met with a mixture of fascination, awe, and consternation at seeing soulless machines conquering something widely considered to be the exclusive domain of human intelligence. But these expeditions are discovering new ways that man and machine can cooperate.
New Religion Created to Worship Artificial Intelligence God
A Church has been developed by a Silicon Valley engineer Anthony Levandowski to worship an Artificial Intelligence God. His aim is to bring together people who believe that Artificial Intelligence is surpassing human capability, knowledge and intellectual & cognitive skill. Mr. Levandowski said, "I …
'Decision intelligence platform' Element Data raises another $2.6M to fuel growth
The fresh cash will help the year-old company increase sales and marketing efforts for its flagship product, Decision Insights Computing Engine (DICE), which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help people make decisions based on a broad range of criteria. It's been a busy 2017 for …