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BabelOn is trying to create Photoshop for your voice
But a startup from San Francisco called BabelOn is working on a particularly unique offshoot of this technology. In a nutshell, BabelOn wants to make it a trivial matter to translate your own voice into another language, even if you don't speak that language yourself. The company says its combo of software and custom-built hardware can analyze what makes up your voice and then use that to recreate speech that sounds just like you, in a language of your choosing. Initially, the company wants to use its technology for things like improving dubbed films or localizing video games, but eventually it wants to be able to translate your speech in real time, say while you're on a Skype call. Microsoft has done this for a while, translating Skype voice calls on the fly, but BabelOn promises that its translations will sound like you, not an anonymous Siri- or Cortana-like digital voice.
Facebook's AI accidentally created its own language โข r/artificial
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EarthRoamer campervan costs more than some people's homes
A luxurious camper favoured by the super rich and celebrities comes packed with all of the comforts of home, and a price-tag to match. The extravagant EarthRoamer XV-LTS 2017 model starts at ยฃ337,000 ($438,000) and allows buyers to fully customise an interior that includes a refrigerator, memory foam bunk, and can sleep up to four people. Previous editions have been purchased by American singer-songwriter John Mayer and a number of other high-profile owners who cannot be named. A luxurious camper favoured by the super rich and celebrities comes packed with all of the comforts of home, and a price-tag to match. Adventurer and nature photographer Bill Swails started the company back in 1998 with the aim of producing a vehicle where the comforts of an RV can be experienced on almost any terrain.
Commentary: The superpowers big data and analytics are quietly giving banks
SINGAPORE: If you could be a superhero, which of the following superpowers would you pick: Flying or invisibility? This, I heard recently, is an interview question one of the big technology companies asks potential candidates. This is a question no doubt designed to test a candidate's ability to think on their feet and demonstrate reasoning. However, with the accelerating pace of technology advancement, navigating the future of business is like choosing superpowers. The emerging superheroes: Blockchain, APIs, cloud, big data, machine learning, the Internet of things (IoT), biometrics all claim to have superpowers that enable you to save the world.
The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know
It is no doubt that the sub-field of machine learning / artificial intelligence has increasingly gained more popularity in the past couple of years. As Big Data is the hottest trend in the tech industry at the moment, machine learning is incredibly powerful to make predictions or calculated suggestions based on large amounts of data. Some of the most common examples of machine learning are Netflix's algorithms to make movie suggestions based on movies you have watched in the past or Amazon's algorithms that recommend books based on books you have bought before. So if you want to learn more about machine learning, how do you start? For me, my first introduction is when I took an Artificial Intelligence class when I was studying abroad in Copenhagen.
Artificially intelligent doll identifies emotions using facial-recognition tech
This smart doll demonstrates a new cheap, privacy-oriented computer vision platform in action. OK, let's get this out the way up top: A robot doll that can sense your child's emotions and change how it behaves accordingly sounds like the kind of high-concept horror movie a Hollywood screenwriter would pitch after binge-watching Westworld and a Chucky marathon. In reality, it describes research being carried out by investigators at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real, Spain. What they've built as a proof of concept is an artificially intelligent doll that can recognize eight different emotions and runs on an AI chip costing just 115 euros (around $130). Emotion recognition is carried out through facial-recognition technology, via a camera hidden in the doll's mouth.
Minority Report at 15 years: what did it get right?
When "Minority Report" hit theaters on June 21, 2002, it arrived to an America -- and a world -- that feels equal parts familiar and alien. We were less than a year into a post-9/11 climate of increased surveillance and color-coded terror alerts. But smartphones, social media and cloud computing were only at their most nascent forms: the iPod and Windows XP were less than a year old, after all. The film, in which police use psychic "precogs" to arrest people for crimes they haven't yet committed, was based on a Philip K. Dick short story from 1956. But it was set in the year 2054.
Analyzing Oscar Data
She graduated from the NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp program taking place between April 11th to July 1st, 2016. This post is based on her final class project - Capstone, due on the 12th week of the program. The original article can be found here. Have you ever seen a marketing ad for a movie and thought, wow I have to see that! Then you go see it, it's a great film, the actor roles are amazing, in your book it's won an Oscar, and it's not even nominated?