For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer. I then decided to convert it to bitmaps. It turns out this is a bit trickier than it might seem like. You need to crop in such a way that each character of a font is vertically aligned, and scale everything to fit the bitmap.

A video of the talk is available here, and the slides are in a PDF in the repository. This should be sufficient to give you a broad overview of the project, and more detailed resources can be found in the'Recommended reading' section. The implementation is contained within the directory babbage.

Three months after Coyote with iCoyote 10, it is now the turn of Inrix enhance your travel experience with the redesign of its traffic information application. Inrix is not very known to the public, but it is as the "world leader in traffic service" to our knowledge rightly, at least in terms of market share. Before opening to the general public, the publisher originally addressed to automakers. It includes to date 250 million vehicles worldwide, manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Ford, Lexus or Mercedes-Benz, which date their speed and position to map the traffic. With the new version 6.0, the full implementation Inrix its sole traffic information function become a guidance application step, a competitor of Waze, TomTom Go and others. Inrix 6.0 differs from the competition in several ways.

At the end of the fifth and final match, Lee Sedol sat back quietly in his chair in a conference room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul as the collected computer scientists celebrated around him. Lee, second only to fellow South Korean Lee Chang-Ho in international titles in the ancient Chinese board game of Go, put up a valiant fight against the machine, AlphaGo, created by Google's DeepMind division. AlphaGo had erred early on, but recovered to overpower the human and win the series four to one. Board games have been used since the early days of artificial intelligence research as ways to measure progress -- IBM's Deep Blue famously beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in New York in 1997 -- and AlphaGo's victory marks another significant milestone in the advancement of the technology. Go presents a far greater challenge to AI than chess.

One of the startups that impressed a lot of people at this years 4YFN was Hu:toma, who builds emotionally evolved artificial intelligence for both personal and business use. I don't think I saw any stands at the event as crowded as Hu:toma's, but luckily one of the two Italian brothers and co-founders Andrea Cibelli found time to chat with Barcinno. One of the really cool features with Hu:toma's AI is that you can teach and train it by feeding it examples They have also implemented an internal mechanism to simulate emotional states which is supposed to make the AI feel more natural. Other competing companyies is more focused on manually feeding the AI to create a language, and not automating it through the machine itself. Obviously co-founder Cibelli, believes that AI will become a huge part of our lives, only few years into the future.

Want to inject some color to your photographs in a hurry? Well, new software can take an alarmingly good guess at what a color version of your black-and-white photographs may look like. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new computer vision system that takes a grayscale image and then adds color to it in a way that looks convincing to humans. That careful description is important: It doesn't necessarily choose the right colors, merely ones that look plausible. It uses what's known as a convolutional neural network to perform its party trick, having been trained on a set of over a million color images.

Ad agency McCann Japan has appointed an artificial intelligence creative director who has the capacity to give creative direction on real client accounts. The AI, AI-CD?, will be in attendance at McCann Worldgroup's new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1, along with 11 new college graduates. According to a report from The Drum, AI-CD? was crafted by the agency under its'Creative Genome Project', the first in a series of projects undertaken by the agency's'McCann Millennials taskforce'. The McCann Japan creation will be the first logic-based creative assistant that's based off the historical success of TV ads, and has been built to respond to a product or message with the top commercial guidance based on previous data. The AI has also been designed so that it can analyse the results of campaigns it's directed in order to make it a more effective AI creative director. President & CEO of McCann Japan, Yasuyuki Katagi said, "Artificial intelligence is already being used to create a wide variety of entertainment, including music, movies, and TV drama, so we're very enthusiastic about the potential of AI-CD ß for the future of ad creation.

Apple won't be blowing its billions on Porsches (well, except for the rumors it's working on a self-driving car), but the birthday seems fitting for a company in a more, shall we call it, mature stage of life. Apple's no longer the brash, hippie company that introduced the Macintosh computer in 1984 as part of its mission to create "bicycles for the mind." And it isn't the struggling organization that was on the verge of bankruptcy when Steve Jobs returned to run it in 1997 and urged people to "Think Different." It's not even the Apple of the early 2000s, when it introduced one blockbuster product after another -- the iPod, iTunes store, iPhone, iPad and even the Apple retail store. The Apple of today is a grown-up company with hundreds of millions of customers actively using more than a billion of its products.

Here's What We Can Expect from Deep Learning in 2016 and Beyond

Skynet has begun its takeover, of the library. Future University of Hakodate researchers have announced that their artificial intelligence has co-written a short-form novel, and it's been accepted by a Japanese story competition. The short-form novel co-written by the AI has been accepted by the Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, and while the story didn't win the competition, its acceptance is a huge win for AI systems becoming more capable of reaching human-like creativity. The team was led by computer science professor Hitoshi Matsubara, who worked closely with their AI during the writing process. The team assigned a gender to the protagonist in the novel, and then developed a rough outline of the plot.