Skip to contentGet your Business passes to TNW Conference 2024 🎟️ Buy now →This article was published on September 30, 2020If you’re unimpressed by the book recommendations provided by your tasteless friends, a new AI tool called GPT-3 Books could help revive your joy of reading.The system is the brainchild of Anurag Ramdasan and Richard Reis. The duo are the co-founders of Most Recommended Books, a repository of reading suggestions from the world’s most influential people, from Bill Gates (215 recommendations) to the Rock (one recommendation: The Art and Making of Rampage, a...…Skip to contentGet your Business passes to TNW Conference 2024 🎟️ Buy now →This article was published on September 30, 2020If you’re unimpressed by the book recommendations provided by your tasteless friends, a new AI tool called GPT-3 Books could help revive your joy of reading.The system is the brainchild of Anurag Ramdasan and Richard Reis. The duo are the co-founders of Most Recommended Books, a repository of reading suggestions from the world’s most influential people, from Bill Gates (215 recommendations) to the Rock (one recommendation: The Art and Making of Rampage, a...WW…

This article was published on April 12, 2021An update to England and Wales’ contact-tracing app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules.When gyms, pub gardens, and non-essential shops reopened today, the COVID-19 app was supposed to have a new feature that would log every place that a user checked into. If they later tested positive, the app would inform other people who’d been to that venue.But this collection of location data is prohibited by Apple and Google, who developed the decentralized API model on which the app is based.  The...…This article was published on April 12, 2021An update to England and Wales’ contact-tracing app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules.When gyms, pub gardens, and non-essential shops reopened today, the COVID-19 app was supposed to have a new feature that would log every place that a user checked into. If they later tested positive, the app would inform other people who’d been to that venue.But this collection of location data is prohibited by Apple and Google, who developed the decentralized API model on which the app is based.  The...WW…

Human-centric AI news and analysisAs a talentless artist who likes to imagine myself as a masterful painter, I always appreciate AI tools that turn my embarrassing sketches into masterpieces.Computer artist  recently developed one of my favorite techniques yet: a text-to-image generator that transforms any picture into the style of famous artists.The system morphs an input image towards the suggestion of a text prompt, such as “Salvador Dalí Art.” Over repeated mutations and iterations of each frame, the AI gradually finds features and shapes that match the text description until...…Human-centric AI news and analysisAs a talentless artist who likes to imagine myself as a masterful painter, I always appreciate AI tools that turn my embarrassing sketches into masterpieces.Computer artist  recently developed one of my favorite techniques yet: a text-to-image generator that transforms any picture into the style of famous artists.The system morphs an input image towards the suggestion of a text prompt, such as “Salvador Dalí Art.” Over repeated mutations and iterations of each frame, the AI gradually finds features and shapes that match the text description until...WW…

This article was published on March 31, 2021Spotify has launched a trio of new personalized playlists that evolve alongside your tastes in music.The streaming service today that it’s introducing an artist mix, genre mix, and decade mix. The feature is already rolling out to Free and Premium users around the world.The mixes use Spotify’s vaunted recommendation algorithms to curate playlists based on your listening habits.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.They’ll include your favorite songs from artists, genres, and decades you...…This article was published on March 31, 2021Spotify has launched a trio of new personalized playlists that evolve alongside your tastes in music.The streaming service today that it’s introducing an artist mix, genre mix, and decade mix. The feature is already rolling out to Free and Premium users around the world.The mixes use Spotify’s vaunted recommendation algorithms to curate playlists based on your listening habits.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.They’ll include your favorite songs from artists, genres, and decades you...WW…

This article was published on April 1, 2021MIT researchers have developed a robot that can detect and grab objects that are hidden behind walls or pieces of clutter.The system, called RF-Grasp, uses radio waves to locate items beyond the line-of-sight of a robot’s cameras. It could help warehouse robots grab customer orders or tools that are occluded behind obstacles.Existing mechanical search systems struggle with these tasks due to the constraints of their sensors. If an object is concealed, they typically need to explore the environment and search for the item.Subscribe to...…This article was published on April 1, 2021MIT researchers have developed a robot that can detect and grab objects that are hidden behind walls or pieces of clutter.The system, called RF-Grasp, uses radio waves to locate items beyond the line-of-sight of a robot’s cameras. It could help warehouse robots grab customer orders or tools that are occluded behind obstacles.Existing mechanical search systems struggle with these tasks due to the constraints of their sensors. If an object is concealed, they typically need to explore the environment and search for the item.Subscribe to...WW…

This article was published on March 24, 2021Humans have aspired to colonize the Moon , but the celestial body has an extremely hostile environment.The safest locations for settlers could be under the Moon’s surface.The European Space Agency (ESA) believes lunar caves could provide shelter from radiation, micrometeorites, and extreme temperatures — and perhaps even access to water ice deposits.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.The agency is currently testing an autonomous robot that it hopes will offer new insights into conditions in...…This article was published on March 24, 2021Humans have aspired to colonize the Moon , but the celestial body has an extremely hostile environment.The safest locations for settlers could be under the Moon’s surface.The European Space Agency (ESA) believes lunar caves could provide shelter from radiation, micrometeorites, and extreme temperatures — and perhaps even access to water ice deposits.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.The agency is currently testing an autonomous robot that it hopes will offer new insights into conditions in...WW…

This article was published on December 23, 2021Deepfakes are being used for a range of nefarious purposes, from disinformation campaigns to inserting people into porn, and the doctored images .A new AI tool provides a surprisingly simple way of spotting them: looking at the light reflected in the eyes.The system was created by computer scientists from the University at Buffalo. In tests on portrait-style photos, the tool was 94% effective at detecting Deepfake images.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.[Read: ]The system exposes...…This article was published on December 23, 2021Deepfakes are being used for a range of nefarious purposes, from disinformation campaigns to inserting people into porn, and the doctored images .A new AI tool provides a surprisingly simple way of spotting them: looking at the light reflected in the eyes.The system was created by computer scientists from the University at Buffalo. In tests on portrait-style photos, the tool was 94% effective at detecting Deepfake images.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.[Read: ]The system exposes...WW…

This article was published on March 11, 2021Adobe Photoshop has got a new AI feature that can quadruple the number of pixels in your photos.The tool, called Super Resolution, is now shipping in Camera Raw 13.2 and will be coming soon to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.The feature uses a machine learning model trained on millions of photos to enlarge images whileSubscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.Press a button and watch your 10-megapixel photo transform into a 40-megapixel photo. It’s a bit like how Mario eats a...…This article was published on March 11, 2021Adobe Photoshop has got a new AI feature that can quadruple the number of pixels in your photos.The tool, called Super Resolution, is now shipping in Camera Raw 13.2 and will be coming soon to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.The feature uses a machine learning model trained on millions of photos to enlarge images whileSubscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.Press a button and watch your 10-megapixel photo transform into a 40-megapixel photo. It’s a bit like how Mario eats a...WW…

This article was published on March 2, 2021An official report created for President Biden and Congress has urged the US government to reject calls for a global ban on AI-powered autonomous weapons, as any commitments from Russia or China “likely would be empty ones.”The recommendation was made by US National Security Commission for AI, a panel headed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former deputy secretary of defense Robert Work. Work had  that the US has a “moral imperative” to explore AI weapons.The new report asserts that the US could use autonomous weapons in a safe and...…This article was published on March 2, 2021An official report created for President Biden and Congress has urged the US government to reject calls for a global ban on AI-powered autonomous weapons, as any commitments from Russia or China “likely would be empty ones.”The recommendation was made by US National Security Commission for AI, a panel headed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former deputy secretary of defense Robert Work. Work had  that the US has a “moral imperative” to explore AI weapons.The new report asserts that the US could use autonomous weapons in a safe and...WW…

This article was published on February 9, 2021Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have developed an AI tool that can predict who’ll die from COVID-19 with up to 90% accuracy.The researchers fed the system health data from almost 4,000 COVID-19 patients in Denmark to train it to find patterns in their medical histories.The tool determined whether an uninfected person who later catches the virus will die from the disease with up to 90% certainty.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.[Read: ]It also predicted whether...…This article was published on February 9, 2021Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have developed an AI tool that can predict who’ll die from COVID-19 with up to 90% accuracy.The researchers fed the system health data from almost 4,000 COVID-19 patients in Denmark to train it to find patterns in their medical histories.The tool determined whether an uninfected person who later catches the virus will die from the disease with up to 90% certainty.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.[Read: ]It also predicted whether...WW…