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A neural network may help an online music service to spot songs with the potential to go big.What’s new: Musiio uses AI to identify specific attributes and qualities in recorded music. Online audio distributor SoundCloud purchased the Singapore-
DeepMind’s AlphaGo famously dominated Go, a game in which players can see the state of play at all times. A new AI system demonstrated similar mastery of bridge, in which crucial information remains hidden.
A new approach aims to cure text generators of their tendency to produce nonsense.What’s new: AI21 Labs launched Jurassic-X, a natural language processing system that combines neural networks and rule-based programs. Jurassic-X weds
Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.What’s new: Independent researchers determined that Salvator Mundi, the
A startup enables people who participate in voice chat to use realistic artificial voices in real time.What’s new: Massachusetts-based Modulate offers a voice-masking tool to forestall harassment of people, particularly women and trans individuals,
Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.
Drop off your adversarial hats, eyeglasses, and tee shirts to the second-hand store. The latest fashion statement is adversarial makeup.What’s new: Researchers at Ben-Gurion University and NEC developed a system
A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos.What’s new: Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images. The organization is testing it with a dozen
Gamers looking to cheat in first-person shooters can’t miss with AI-assisted marksmanship. What’s new: A video-game hack uses computer vision to blast virtual enemies at superhuman speed, Ars Technica reported.
Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery.What’s new: Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by
Self-driving cars, get ready to share the road with self-riding bikes.What’s new: Beijing-based machine learning researcher Zhihui Peng built a riderless bike that stays upright, navigates, and avoids collisions, Synced
Robots are brushing their way into the beauty market.What’s new: A trio of companies is developing automated nail-painting devices that integrate robotics and computer vision, The New York Times
A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition.What’s new: A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Slate
A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. What’s new: Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the
Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical recordings.What’s new: Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported. The
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