It's Surprisingly Easy to Make AI Think a Taxi Is a Vacuum Cleaner
Technologists like to put machine learning on a pedestal, exalting its ability to complement and even exceed human…
AI Still Sucks at Optical Illusions, So at Least We Have That Going for Us
Optical illusions take advantage of shortcomings in the visual system. Certain special designs can trick our brain as…
SETI's New Neural Network Detects Many More Fast Radio Bursts From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have deployed…
New MIT Robot Can Delicately Handle Objects It’s Never Seen Before
Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different…
This Online AI Tool Takes Your Words and Turns Them Into Nightmares
We’ve seen lots of machine learning systems create strange new phrases and dreamlike images after being trained on…
Nvidia Taught an AI to Flawlessly Erase Watermarks From Photos
Photographers already face an uphill battle in trying to preventing people from using their digital photos without…
MIT's New AI-Powered Software Can Extract Individual Instruments From Videos With a Single Click
An instructor of mine once compared mixing a song to baking a cake. The various tracks are the ingredients, and once…
This Neural Network Instant Camera Turns Everything You Shoot Into Cartoon Doodles
Photographers who still shoot on film claim they like the lo-fi, grainy aesthetics of the medium. But by that logic,…
Nvidia Is Using AI to Perfectly Fake Slo-Mo Videos
One of the hardest video effects to fake is slow motion. It requires software to stretch out a clip by creating…
Don't Be Fooled by the 'Forced a Bot' Meme
By now, you’ve probably seen the satirical posts where someone claims to have “forced a bot” to watch thousands of…
The Invisible Radio Waves All Around Us Let MIT's New AI See People Right Through Walls
The information age has generated far more data than humanity can ever hope to manually process, but with the help of…
Deepfake Videos Are Getting Impossibly Good
Fake news sucks, and as those eerily accurate videos of a lip-synced Barack Obama demonstrated last year, it’s soon…
An AI Created New Doom Levels That Are as Fun as the Game's Original Ones
The technical skills of programmer John Carmack helped create the 3D world of Doom, the first-person shooter that took…
AI Is Getting Pretty Good at Studying Distant Galaxies
Will all the warped images and funny names, it can be easy to forget that machine learning can have important uses in sc…
Trippy Magic Happens When AI Only Knows About Flowers, Waves, and Fires
The same way a human only knows as much as they’ve studied or experienced, an artificial intelligence is only as smart…
Just Look at This Freakin' CGI Fur
When you look at fur, the light has taken an extended journey before hitting your eye, bouncing around lots of fur…
That Freaky Bot-Written Harry Potter Chapter Got Turned into a Freaky Cartoon
The sky as a great black ceiling full of blood. Hagrid’s shrieking furniture. Harry dipping Hermione in hot sauce.…
AI-Generated Candy Heart Messages Let Your 'Sweat Poo' Know It's 'Time 2 Wank'
A lot of people are banking on a future ruled by artificial intelligence, but in its current form, AI can still be…
This Carol-Writing Neural Network Wants to Wish You a Very 'Hurry Christmas'
As you gather round the fireplace this Christmas and your smug second cousin decides it’s time to drunkenly berate…
Watch This Neural Network Generate an Infinite Number of Totally Unique Anime Characters
Last month Nvidia revealed its work on using competing neural networks to generate random, but convincing, photos of…