Tag: artificial intelligence
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Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI
Scientists have given artificial intelligence a direct line into the nervous systems of millimeter-long worms, letting it guide the creatures to a tasty target—and demonstrating intriguing brain-AI collaboration. They trained the AI with a methodology called deep-reinforcement learning; the same is used to help AI players learn to master games such as Go. An artificial…
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Interview with Živa Ljubec
Prior to taking up her current post as Innovation Director with a robotics company, Dr. Živa Ljubec was senior lecturer at SIVA – Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, where she taught cybernetics and other subjects as well as coordinated the Advanced Degree Course in Technoetic Arts, founded by Roy Ascott, who was also her…
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The First AI Cinema Camera
SpecialGuestX, a creative technology agency for the world’s most innovative companies, and 1stAveMachine, a global mixed-media production company, have joined forces to launch CMR-M1 today, the first AI-powered movie camera. The CMR-M1, which stands for Camera Model 1, was inspired by the Cine-Kodak camera, the first portable 16mm camera. In 1924, Kodak revolutionised the film…
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Cerebras unveils “world’s fastest” AI chip
Cerebras Systems has announced the creation of the world’s “fastest” AI chip. The Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) has been purpose-built to train the largest AI models up to ten-times larger than GPT-4 and Gemini. The chip contains 4 trillion transistors, each of which is just 5nm in size. “When we started on this journey…
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Five Words for the Future Workshop
On February 22 and 23 the “Five Words for the Future Workshop” took place in Rome, with Derrick de Kerckhove and Pier Luigi Capucci, curated by Gianna Angelini with the students of AANT – Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie. The workshop aimed to compare the visions of the future of the academy’s students…
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Titanic robots make farming more sustainable
There’s a lot riding on farmers’ ability to fight weeds, which can strangle crops and destroy yields. To protect crops, farmers have two options: They can spray herbicides that pollute the environment and harm human health, or they can hire more workers. Unfortunately, both choices are becoming less tenable. Herbicide resistance is a growing problem…
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HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence
HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence is a digital book of the European Commission on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and society from different perspectives. The eBook, edited by Freddy Paul Grunert, with Massimo Craglia, Emilia Gómez Gutierrez and Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, presents 45 texts by authors from different humanistic and scientific backgrounds. Texts’ reviewers are…
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“Smart clothes” that can measure your movements
In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen levels. But what about a wearable that can detect how you move as you do a physical activity or play a sport, and could potentially even offer feedback on how to improve your technique?…
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Kia to demonstrate Real-time Emotion Adaptive Driving
Kia’s new Real-time Emotion Adaptive Driving (READ) technology will be demonstrated at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Co-developed with the Affective Computing Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, the Real-time Emotion Adaptive Driving system utilises a “world-first emotional AI-based optimized and interactive in-cabin space centred on human senses.”…
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Scentee Machina AI suggests your favorite scent
“Scentee Machina” is the first and smartest room diffuser in the globe, the next generation diffuser equipped with AI technology. So far the diffuser was fragrant weak, cumbersome to manage, only things that bothers busy business people for maintenance. However, with this “Scentee Machina”, all the controls are completely done with your smartphone. The fragrance…
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AI Creates Fake Obama
Artificial intelligence software could generate highly realistic fake videos of former president Barack Obama using existing audio and video clips of him, a new study [PDF] finds. Such work could one day help generate digital models of a person for virtual reality or augmented reality applications, researchers say. Computer scientists at the University of Washington previously…
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Interview with Bill Seaman
Seaman’s work often employs an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means— Recombinant Poetics. Such works often explore the combination and recombination of media elements and processes in interactive and generative works of art. Seaman enfolds image/music/text relations in these works, often creating all of the media elements and articulating the operative media-processes involved.…
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Human & Machine: The Next Great Creative Partnership
Artificial Intelligence is embedding itself in every industry across the globe. If the last ten years were about building AI to help automate analytical and process-driven tasks, the next ten will be about building AI to augment creative workers across all disciplines. The field of computational creativity, or creative AI, is growing at a rapid…
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Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance
Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans. Rightly or wrongly, one industry after another is falling under its spell, even though few have benefited significantly so far. And that raises an…
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“[ITA] Dal 20 al 22 Febbraio all’Università di Genova c’è “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, conferenze e workshop transdisciplinari con artisti, designer, scienziati, tecnologi. fivewordsforthefuture è partner dell’evento. [ENG] From February 20 to22 will take place at the University of Genoa “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, transdisciplinary lectures and workshops involving artists, designers, scientists, technologists.…
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Interview with Leonel Moura
Leonel Moura (1948) is a European artist born in Lisbon, Portugal, that works with AI and robotics. He created in 2003 his first swarm of ‘Painting Robots’, able to produce original artworks based on emergent behavior. Since then he has produced several artbots, each time more autonomous and sophisticated. RAP (Robotic Action Painter), 2006, created…