Category: AI/ML News

Many people are familiar with facial recognition systems that unlock smartphones and game systems or allow access to our bank accounts online. But the current technology can require boxy projectors and lenses. Now, researchers report on a sleeker 3D surface imaging system with flatter, simplified optics. In proof-of-concept demonstrations, the new system recognized the face …

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Facial recognition systems, computational tools that can recognize individuals in images or video footage, are now widely employed worldwide. Some users and developers, however, have raised privacy-related concerns, as by definition facial recognition techniques rely on images that capture people’s faces. It is possible to use facial recognition techniques to identify the person by his/her …

Read more “A camera-based anti-facial recognition technique”

Deepfakes are being weaponized in politics. This professor is on a mission to catalog — and stop — AI-generated misinformation.Read More

Songs previously licensed from Universal Music Group artists are disappearing from TikTok. #SwiftTok may never be the same.

Window to the soul? Maybe, but the eyes are also a flashing neon sign for a new artificial intelligence-based system that can read them to predict what you’ll do next.

Shopify adds over 100 new AI-powered features to its commerce platform, helping merchants sell more, work smarter and create better customer experiences.Read More

For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.

Look up “lifelong learning” online, and you’ll find a laundry list of apps to teach you how to quilt, play chess or even speak a new language. Within the emerging fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous devices, however, “lifelong learning” means something different—and it is a bit more complex. It refers to the ability …

Read more “Lifelong learning will power next generation of autonomous devices”

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive has been an institution for over three decades. Soon, it’ll be gone.

A survey of nearly 3,000 machine learning experts on how our lives will be different in an AI world has been completed and the results are in.