News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning en-us Tech Xplore provides the latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning AI's current hype and hysteria could set the technology back by decades Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world's most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI will either solve all our problems or destroy us or our society, and the press frequently report on how AI will threaten jobs and raise inequality, there's actually very little evidence to support these ideas. What's more, this could actually end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt. Machine learning & AI Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:44:55 EST news483180280 Researchers improve AI that can tell from your voice if you're depressed Artificial intelligence can now more accurately detect whether you're depressed by analyzing the sound of your voice, thanks to new research by University of Alberta computing scientists. Machine learning & AI Fri, 12 Jul 2019 08:13:00 EST news482137972 AI program beats pros in six-player poker—a first Artificial intelligence programs have bested humans in checkers, chess, Go and two-player poker, but multi-player poker was always believed to be a bigger ask. Mission: accomplished. Machine learning & AI Fri, 12 Jul 2019 03:32:16 EST news482121128 Artificial intelligence may be used to reveal secrets behind traditional folk music dating back thousands of years The secrets behind traditional folk music from across the globe and dating back thousands of years are likely to be revealed by using artificial intelligence, according to a leading academic expert. Machine learning & AI Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:17:20 EST news482051824 Using artificial intelligence to detect discrimination A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool for detecting unfair discrimination—such as on the basis of race or gender—has been created by researchers at Penn State and Columbia University. Machine learning & AI Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:31:32 EST news481980675 Beyond sex robots: Erobotics explores erotic human-machine interactions Science fiction films such as Blade Runner (1982), Lars and the Real Girl (2007) and Her (2013) explore the advent of human-machine relationships. And in recent years, reality has met fiction. Robotics Machine learning & AI Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:40:01 EST news481966636 Navigating the winding road toward driverless mobility As we all watch automakers and autonomous tech companies team up in various alliances, it's natural to wonder about their significance and what the future will bring. Are we realizing that autonomous driving technology and its acceptance by society could take longer than expected? Is the cost of investing in such technology proving more than any single organization can sustain? Are these alliances driven by a need for regulation that will be accepted by governments and the public or for developing standards on which manufacturers can agree? Automotive Machine learning & AI Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:49:42 EST news481963772 Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon's 'war cloud' Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system. But Amazon's early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away. Business Machine learning & AI Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:40:50 EST news481894829 Deep learning-powered 'DeepEC' framework helps accurately understand enzyme functions A deep learning-powered computational framework, 'DeepEC,' will allow the high-quality and high-throughput prediction of enzyme commission numbers, which is essential for the accurate understanding of enzyme functions. Machine learning & AI Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:45:28 EST news481887920 Neuroscience and artificial intelligence can help improve each other Despite their names, artificial intelligence technologies and their component systems, such as artificial neural networks, don't have much to do with real brain science. I'm a professor of bioengineering and neurosciences interested in understanding how the brain works as a system—and how we can use that knowledge to design and engineer new machine learning models. Machine learning & AI Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:48:44 EST news481884512 Team programs a humanoid robot to communicate in sign language For a robot to be able to "learn" sign language, it is necessary to combine different areas of engineering such as artificial intelligence, neural networks and artificial vision, as well as underactuated robotic hands. "One of the main new developments of this research is that we united two major areas of Robotics: complex systems (such as robotic hands) and social interaction and communication," explains Juan Víctores, one of the researchers from the Robotics Lab in the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the UC3M. Robotics Machine learning & AI Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:54:56 EST news481805682 Accelerating the grapevine effect Gossip is an efficient way to share information across large networks and has unexpected applications in solving other mathematical and machine-learning problems. Machine learning & AI Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:23:19 EST news481796593 Wimbledon reworks AI tech to reduce bias in game highlights Efforts to make artificial intelligence fairer now extend to Wimbledon's courts. Machine learning & AI Thu, 04 Jul 2019 13:08:24 EST news481464494 Smartphone network helps uncover hundreds of anti-cancer molecules in food A crowdsourcing project which uses thousands of idling smartphones has helped to uncover anti-cancer properties of everyday foods and medicines. Machine learning & AI Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:00:49 EST news481363232 How big data can help you choose better health insurance There are plenty of easy consumer choices. Paper clips: easy. Dish sponges: easy. Those products sit at one end of the spectrum. At the other end, impossibly distant, is health insurance. Machine learning & AI Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:37:05 EST news481358213 Building trust in artificial intelligence From telecommunications to road traffic, from healthcare to the workplace—digital technology is now an intrinsic part of almost every area of life. Yet how can we ensure that developments in this field, especially those that rely on artificial intelligence (AI), meet all our ethical, legal and technological concerns? In a project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, and with the participation of Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne are drawing up an inspection catalog for the certification of AI applications. They have now published a white paper presenting the philosophical, ethical, legal and technological issues involved. Consumer & Gadgets Machine learning & AI Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:10:02 EST news481278681 Unmanned aerial vehicles Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are increasingly used for tasks that are too difficult or dangerous for people to complete. But better control and communication among groups of similarly tasked UAVs is still needed, experts say. Consumer & Gadgets Machine learning & AI Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:50:01 EST news481277596 A look inside neural networks Artificial intelligence (AI) is already firmly embedded in our everyday lives and is conquering more and more territory. For example, voice assistants are already an everyday item in many people's smartphones, cars and homes. Progress in the field of AI is based primarily on the use of neural networks. Mimicking the functionality of the human brain, neural networks link mathematically defined units with one another. But in the past it was not known just how a neural network makes decisions. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI and Technische Universität Berlin have developed a technology that reveals the criteria AI systems use when making decisions. The innovative Spectral Relevance Analysis (SpRAy) method based on Layer-wise Relevance Propagation technology provides a first peek inside the "black box." Machine learning & AI Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:58:05 EST news481276677 Machine detection of human-object interaction in images and videos Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, has received a Google Faculty Research Award to support his work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos. Machine learning & AI Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:52:14 EST news481204327 Rise of the robots: Coming to a first-year Intro to Journalism class near you Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming human interactions in nearly every aspect of life, from how business is conducted to how people access healthcare to how news is delivered and consumed. Machine learning & AI Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:00:02 EST news481201035 The answer to forecasting Bitcoin may lie in artificial intelligence As Bitcoin tries to regain some of the lustre it held in late 2017 when it nearly reached US$20,000 in value, investors are still questioning how to predict such a volatile currency. Business Machine learning & AI Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:40:02 EST news481194894 Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting people doing and saying things they never did or said are a fundamental threat to the longstanding idea that "seeing is believing." Not anymore. Machine learning & AI Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:44:24 EST news480757453 Virtual reality faces—animating precise, lifelike avatars for VR in real-time Computer scientists are focused on adding enhanced functionality to make the "reality" in virtual reality (VR) environments highly believable. A key aspect of VR is to enable remote social interactions and the possibility of making it more immersive than any prior telecommunication media. Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) have developed a revolutionary system called Codec Avatars that gives VR users the ability to interact with others while representing themselves with lifelike avatars precisely animated in real-time. The researchers aim to build the future of connection within virtual reality, and eventually, augmented reality by delivering the most socially engaged experience possible for users in the VR world. Computer Sciences Machine learning & AI Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:12:48 EST news480683551 Protecting emergency personnel: Platform shows potential of AI in hazardous environments Whether it's at rescue and firefighting operations or deep-sea inspections, mobile robots finding their way around unknown situations with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively support people in carrying out activities in hazardous environments. The potential as well as the concrete benefits of AI in this field are illustrated in a current report from Plattform Lernende Systeme, Germany's Platform for Artificial Intelligence, using two application scenarios. The report was presented today at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where scientists are involved in the platform. The authors also identify technical and social challenges, as well as conditions that need to be created for the reliable and economic use of AI in life-hostile environments. Machine learning & AI Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:16:15 EST news480680164 Setting the standard for machine learning The microcomputer revolution of the 1970s triggered a Wild West-like expansion of personal computers in the 1980s. Over the course of the decade, dozens of personal computing devices, from Atari to Xerox Alto, flooded into the market. CPUs and microprocessors advanced rapidly, with new generations coming out on a monthly basis. Computer Sciences Machine learning & AI Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:58:05 EST news480675475 Querying big data just got universal To solve one of the key obstacles in big-data science, KAUST researchers have created a framework for searching very large datasets that runs easily on different computing architectures. Their achievement allows researchers to concentrate on advancing the search engine, or query engine, itself rather than on painstakingly coding for specific computing platforms. Computer Sciences Machine learning & AI Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:34:58 EST news480591288 Robots may care for you in old age—and your children will teach them It's likely that before too long, robots will be in the home to care for older people and help them live independently. To do that, they'll need to learn how to do all the little jobs that we might be able to do without thinking. Many modern AI systems are trained to perform specific tasks by analysing thousands of annotated images of the action being performed. While these techniques are helping to solve increasingly complex problems, they still focus on very specific tasks and require lots of time and processing power to train. Robotics Machine learning & AI Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:28:36 EST news480583700 Neural networks taught to recognize similar objects on videos without accuracy degradation Andrey Savchenko, Professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE University), has developed a method that can help to enhance image identification on videos. In his project, a network was taught by a new algorithm and can now make decisions on image recognition and classification at a rate 10 times faster than before. This research was presented in the paper "Sequential three-way decisions in multi-category image recognition with deep features based on distance factor" published in Information Sciences. Machine learning & AI Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:25:50 EST news480338740 Researchers develop 'vaccine' against attacks on machine learning Researchers from CSIRO's Data61, the data and digital specialist arm of Australia's national science agency, have developed a world-first set of techniques to effectively 'vaccinate' algorithms against adversarial attacks, a significant advancement in machine learning research. Machine learning & AI Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:31:04 EST news480241857 The intersection of vision and language Nine thousand two hundred artificial intelligence researchers. Five thousand one hundred sixty-five research papers submitted, of which only 1,300 were accepted. One Best Student Paper. Machine learning & AI Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:48:56 EST news480178124