VideosRemember that artificially intelligent software that could transform lifeless still images, such as portrait paintings, into moving heads? Well, you can now take a single photo or picture of someone and animate it to make them say specific words and sentences, using AI algorithms. This machine-learning code can take a person's …

Machine-learning algorithms can help psychologists predict, with 90 per cent accuracy, the onset of psychosis by analyzing a patient's conversations, according to this research here. Psychosis can be a symptom of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. People experiencing psychosis find it difficult to …

VideoArtificial intelligence built by Adobe can detect how an image may have been manipulated using, er, Adobe Photoshop, and predict what a doctored picture should have looked like. Eggheads at the software giant teamed up with academics at the University of California, Berkeley, to develop, and hopefully soon release, tools that …

RoundupHere's your latest dose of machine-learning news beyond what we've already published. Beware, deepfake-generated accounts on LinkedIn An expert in cybersecurity and policy in Russia found a suspicious-looking LinkedIn profile containing what looks like a deepfake-generated profile photo. Said fake profile described a 30- …

AnalysisThe US House of Reps' Intelligence Committee on Thursday held its first hearing into computer-fabricated videos dubbed deepfakes, quizzing experts from across worlds of AI, social policy, and law. These deepfake videos are typically generated by deep-learning software to fool viewers into thinking someone said something they …

Off-the-shelf object-recognition systems struggle, relatively speaking, to identify common items in hard-up homes in countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. The same software performs better at identifying stuff in richer households in Europe and North America. Though initially shocking, and then not so much when you …

VideoOnce again, artificially intelligent software has been demonstrated automatically editing videos of talking heads to make them say things they haven’t actually uttered. And it's getting better at it. Today, it's altering footage of boffins, and Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Kardashian, but next it could be you. Probably not. But …

RoundupIt's been a busy seven days in the world of AI, what with Facebook purloining a database of 3D objects to use in its AI projects, and boffins writing software to produce machine-learning models tiny enough to operate inside microcontrollers. But here's a round-up of news nuggets beyond what we've already covered. Amazon's …

Facebook used a purloined database of 3D objects for its AI projects, according to a Lithuanian company that spent years and millions of dollars compiling the dataset. UAB Planner5D has sued the antisocial media giant and Princeton University in the US, claiming the posh college illegally downloaded more than a million …

Eggheads have devised software that can automatically produce machine-learning models small enough to run inside tiny microcontrollers. Microcontroller units (MCUs) are pretty darn common: they can be found wedged inside everything from microwaves and washing machines, to cars and server motherboards, running relatively simple …

RoundupLet's get right to it: here's your latest roundup of recent machine-learning related news beyond what we've already reported. Cheap human labor is remote controlling Kiwibots: Food delivery machines known as Kiwibots may look dinky and sweet, trundling slowly across the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, to …

Catfishing, the act of pretending to be someone you're not to deceive people over the internet, can be caught early on by machine learning systems to prevent fake online romance scams. Dating websites and apps are the best place for catfishers to set up shop. All you have to do is create a convincing profile. Make it appealing …

Videos“Do not believe what you see on the internet, OK?” a techie, who doctors video clips apparently using AI algorithms and puts them on YouTube, has warned. The resulting digitally altered material ranges from a comedian doing impersonations of celebrities, with the performer's face changed to match those of the stars being …

RoundupHello, here's a quick roundup of recent machine learning tidbits that you can digest after the long weekend. UK’s first legal hearing over facial recognition: One man is taking on South Wales Police for violating his privacy after he claimed his face was scanned with facial recognition cameras without explicit permission. The …

VideoAI code can breathe life into portrait paintings, photos of dead celebrities, and your Facebook selfies, transforming single still images into moving and talking heads. In one demonstration of the software's creepy abilities, the Mona Lisa, famous for its ambiguous expression, is animated just like one of the moving paintings …

AnalysisAI experts, lawyers, and law enforcement urged US Congress to regulate the use of facial recognition technology during a hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday. The technical issues and social impacts of using AI software to analyse images or videos are well known. There have been repeated …

Deep learning algorithms can help doctors predict a patient’s risk of lung cancer, according to fresh research published on Monday. Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the US, there were an estimated 160,000 deaths in 2018. Catching the disease in its early stages can reduce the chance of mortality by up to 43 per cent. …

RoundupLet's get you up to speed on the latest AI news, beyond what we've already covered lately. Hey, our CPUs can do AI, too: One of Intel’s processors, the Xeon Platinum 9282, can train the popular computer vision model ResNet-50 faster than Nvidia’s Tesla V100 GPU. Chipzilla gushed about its 14nm CPU being able to crunch through …