The study used AI to predict people's political orientation based on images of expressionless faces. BLANK SPACE: Researchers are warning that facial recognition technologies are "more threatening than previously thought" and pose "serious challenges to privacy" after a study found that artificial intelligence can be successful in predicting a person's political orientation based on images of expressionless faces. Former President Donald Trump and President Biden are seen in a split image. DISASTER RESPONSE: An artificial intelligence venture backed by Google is partnering with the military to use AI in responding to natural disasters. 'NATURAL PROGRESSION': A chemotherapy alternative called immunotherapy is showing promise in treating cancer -- and a new artificial intelligence tool could help ensure that patients have the best possible experience.

Artificial intelligence can turn a single photo of an item of clothing being worn into accurate sewing patterns to recreate the garment. Clothing makers use sewing patterns to create the differently shaped pieces of material that make up a garment, using them as templates to cut and sew fabric. Reproducing a pattern from an existing garment can be a time-consuming task, so Xiangyu Xu at Sea AI Lab in Singapore and his colleagues have instead turned to AI.

An innovative model that can get 3D information from a single image The strength that comes from integrating a number of recent advancements. 3D AI art

There's nothing more annoying than indulging in a delicious cheese board at a restaurant, only to forget what the varieties are in front of you are. But the days of scrambling to find the menu could be a thing of the past, thanks to a new app called Cheezam. Cheezam was inspired by the music-finding app, Shazam, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify different cheeses from a single photo. Served in a simmering pot with a selection of dunkable ingredients, cheese fondue is without a doubt one of the most popular dishes among cheese lovers around the world. Now, the famous Swiss dish can be prepared, stirred up and served by a robot chef.

When the Russian warship Moskva sank in the Black Sea south of Ukraine, some 500 crew members were reportedly on board. The Russian state held a big ceremony for the surviving sailors and officers who were on the ship. But, considering Russia's history of being not exactly truthful when it comes to events like this, many people wondered whether these were actual sailors from Moskva. Toler is director of research and training for Bellingcat, the group that specializes in open-source and social media investigations. He used facial recognition software to identify the men in the video through images in Russian social media, and found that most of the men were indeed sailors from Sevastopol, the town the ship was operating out of.

Synthetic humans are a thing of the future, and the latest project to come along in pursuit of that is Alethea AI, a startup that can create photorealistic AI-generated avatars from a single photo. The company is unveiling its AI Avatar Studio today. You can see what they did with my photo, with my permission, in the video embedded in this story. They made me sing the I See Fire song from The Hobbit film with Ed Sheeran's voice. The company created the avatar and lip-syncing within minutes.

"If all 7.7 billion people on Earth uploaded a single photo, you could classify [them all] in under 2.5 hours for less than $600" Google and Nvidia have both declared victory for their hardware in a fresh round of "MLPerf" AI inference benchmarking tests: Google for its custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) silicon, and Nvidia for its Turing GPUs. As always with the MLPerf results it's challenging to declare an overall AI leader without comparing apples with oranges: Alibaba Cloud also performed blisteringly strongly in offline image classification. The MLPerf Inference v0.5 tests were released Wednesday, and capture some of the impressive performance taking place in AI/machine learning, both at the hardware and software level. These performance improvements are rapidly filtering down to the enterprise level: as sophisticated customer service chatbots, models to predict investment outcomes, to underpin nuclear safety, or discover new cures for disease. The MLPerf tests are designed to make it easier for companies to determine the right systems for them, as machine learning silicon, software frameworks and libraries proliferate.

Nvidia's research team has just developed a new AI that can use an existing video and just one image to make the person in the image imitate moves from the video. Technically, the method known as video-to-video synthesis takes an input video like a segmentation mask or human poses to turn it into a photorealistic video using an image. The research team said there are two major problems with the current set of AI models trying to achieve the same: First, these models need a trove of target images to turn them into a video. And second, the capability of these models to generalize the output is limited. To overcome these obstacles, researchers trained a new model that learns to generate videos of previously unseen humans or scenes – images that weren't present in the training dataset – using just a few images of them.

But what if creating a digital clone didn't require all this work? They've animated Britney Spears, Neil Patrick Harris, Marilyn Monroe, even the Mona Lisa herself. Their system learns what the core geometry of someone's face looks like so it can apply that like a mask to someone else's face in a talking head-style video (like interviews or YouTube selfie monologues). Unlike Deepfakes, which uses a technique called a GAN (or generative adversarial network), in which one AI draws pictures in attempt to fool another AI until it gets really really good at forgery, Samsung's system starts by scanning landmarks on someone's face to understand how they will move about a frame. What it sees is a simple line drawing of a nose, mouth, eyes, eyebrows, and a chin–the sketch looks like a Matisse portrait.

Deepfakes are video manipulations that can make people say seemingly strange things. Barack Obama and Nicolas Cage have been featured in these videos. We all know about Mona Lisa's smile. Now, you can watch her talk. A research paper from experts at Samsung's AI Center in Moscow and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology shows how fake videos can be created with a single image, including the classic artwork.