Face-synthesizing algorithms often struggle with facial details like eyes and teeth. These features sometimes get pinned to a fixed spot as a head turns, resulting in an uncanny valley dweller.
A new algorithm, StyleGAN2, fixes this problem and produces "eye-poppingly detailed and correct images." It can also generate never-before-seen cars, churches, and animals.
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In 2012, Chicago PD collaborated with the RAND Corporation and the Illinois Institute of Technology to automatically generate "risk scores" for people they arrested, which were supposed to predict the likelihood that the person would be a "party to violence" in the future (this program was called "TRAP" -- Targeted Repeat-Offender Apprehension Program" -- seemingly […]
I’m a musician. I’m Irish-American, and play Irish music (among other things). And I live in Boston. Naturally, St. Patrick’s Day presents me with some potentially lucrative opportunities. Unfortunately, Gmail is not a very good negotiator: In case you can’t quite tell what’s going on in this screenshot: someone asked how much money I wanted […]
Writing in Wired, Boing Boing contributor Clive Thompson discusses the rise and rise of "Edge AI" startups that sell lightweight machine-learning classifiers that run on low-powered chips and don't talk to the cloud, meaning that they are privacy respecting and energy efficient.
It should come as no surprise that more and more IT professionals are scrambling to earn Microsoft Azure certifications. With the average Azure developer earning around $130,000 a year, these in-demand certifications drastically increase your earning potential and career flexibility, open up opportunities for advancement, and provide a greater understanding of some of the world’s […]
With more and more people working at the office, at home, and on the go, virtually everyone needs a laptop these days. But the truth is that most of us simply don’t require the type of processing power that the incredibly awesome but super-expensive Apple laptops have to offer when it comes to making it […]
We all have at least one in our homes. We spend an inordinate amount of time with it. And we’d be lost without it. Yet the less we think about it, the better. Yes, we’re talking about your toilet. And while you’d rather just ignore it, give it a moment of your time right now. […]