AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say – The Verge
Deepfakes are becoming very easy to create. As shown in the work by scientists from Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton…
Author: Martin Treiber and Artifical Intelligence
Perception As Controlled Hallucination | Edge.org
An EDGE conversation with Andy Clark on perception and the role of predictive processing. The concept of predictive processing describes the brain as pediction machine gathering statistical information to adapt its model of the world. Sources: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination https://www.mindcoolness.com/blog/bayesian-brain-predictive-processing/
Mobile, Mobile, Mobile!
Recent studies in the US [1,2] emphasize the importance of mobile for retail. The numbers speak for themselves: 61% of online purchases were made via…
The importance of a seamless checkout
A easy to use checkout process for your online business is of utmost importance. Why? Because more than one in four shoppers abandoned a cart due to a…
Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Behind a successful AI there is a human doing critical work. It’s an open secret that behind the “magic” of AI tools there are large teams of people,…
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Instagram (or Insta as the platform is called by the cognoscienti) is experimenting with a feature that removes likes .
The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence | June 2019 | Communications of the ACM
Modern AI approaches often work like black boxes: nobody really knows why things work the way they work.
Opinion: Data isn’t the new oil — it’s the new nuclear power | ideas.ted.com
Interesting thoughts by James Bridle on data which is often compared with oil: Data is a valuable, powerful commodity — but unlike oil, it is unlimited in quantity and in its capacity for harm. Source: Opinion: Data isn’t the new oil — it’s the new nuclear power
Hidden Heroines of Chaos: Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton | Quanta Magazine
The untold story of two women who played an essential part in developing chaos theory [1]. While a lot has changed since 1960ies still many programmers…
Almost 80% of AI and ML Projects Have Stalled, Survey Says – Robotics Business Review
Doing an AI project is hard. The main obstacle is the volume and quality of the training data, so Nathaniel Gates, CEO and co-founder of Alegion While…