[ad_1] What’s nifty about Smart Fill is that anytime it does its thing, it creates a formula instead of adding data without user input. That’s something that gives you control over how it works since you can tweak its suggestion as needed. It’s also an opportunity to learn how formulas work in Sheets, allowing you […]
Category: machine learning
‘Predictive policing’ could amplify today’s law enforcement issues
[ad_1] Predictive policing in and of itself is nothing new. It’s the straightforward evolution of intelligence-driven techniques, based on long established criminology principles that have been used by law enforcement for decades. The idea of forecasting crimes started back in 1931 when University of Chicago sociologist Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay, a criminologist […]
AI recreates the painting techniques of famous artists
[ad_1] You can’t go back in time to see how Monet or Van Gogh made their masterpieces, but AI might give you the next best thing. MIT CSAIL researchers have created a machine learning system, Timecraft, that can deduce how a painting was produced and recreate the likely brushstrokes, even for famous artists. The design […]
AI breathes new life into a classic ‘80s synth
[ad_1] Musicians in the 1980s had a love-hate relationship with Yamaha’s DX7 synthesizer. Its digital sound engine was unlike the analog synths that came before it, and created a unique timbre, but the thing was a beast to program. (Modern FM synths are substantially more manageable.) This led most users to simply stick with the […]
Apple buys an AI startup to improve Siri’s data
[ad_1] Apple is continuing its string of AI startup acquisitions, this time to improve Siri’s performance. The company has confirmed to Bloomberg that it recently acquired Inductiv, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company that uses AI to correct data — which, in turn, improves machine learning. The company didn’t elaborate on its plans and relied on […]
NVIDIA’s AI built Pac-Man from scratch in four days
[ad_1] In GameGAN’s case, the generative network was trained using 50,000 play sessions of the game and then told to recreate it as a whole, from the static walls and pellets to the ghosts, Pac-Man himself and the rules governing their interactions. The entire process ran on a quartet of GP100s. GameGAN was not, however, […]
Steam uses AI to find interesting games you already own
[ad_1] Valve launched Steam Labs late last year as a way to test out new features for its PC games store. While it already brought the machine learning-based Interactive Recommender from Labs to the regular Library, the latest client update adds a wrinkle with Play Next. Instead of suggesting new games for you to buy, […]
Sony’s new image sensors will make cameras smarter with onboard AI
[ad_1] Onboard AI also means you can get information processed in real-time. A camera at the front of a store could count the number of people entering, and even alert security if someone isn’t wearing a face mask (a major health risk as we’re still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic). Another camera could keep track […]
The first ‘AI Eurovision’ song contest winner was trained on koalas
[ad_1] Other tunes are, shall we say, less than comforting. The song from runner-up Germany, Dadabots x Portrait XO’s “I’ll Marry You, Punk Come,” is about as disturbing as you’d expect from an AI trained on acapellas, death metal and a fake news generator — “extinction is the only way” isn’t exactly the feel-good lyric […]
Microsoft and Intel turn malware into images to help spot more threats
[ad_1] STAMINA has proven mostly effective so far, with just over 99 percent accuracy in classifying malware and a false positive rate slightly under 2.6 percent. However, it has its limits. It works well with small files, but it struggles with larger ones. With enough refinement, though, this could be very useful. Most malware detection […]