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Stable Diffusion vs. Midjourney — which is the best AI art tool?

Stable Diffusion and Midjourney are two of the best AI art tools, but which is better? What is the best AI art tool?
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Here’s what a trend-analyzing A.I. thinks will be the next big thing in tech

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The future of A.I.: 4 big things to watch for in the next few years

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Exoskeletons with autopilot: A peek at the near future of wearable robotics

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Like a wearable guide dog, this backback helps Blind people navigate

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Chess. Jeopardy. Go. Why do we use games as a benchmark for A.I.?

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The web is full of information trapped in unsearchable audio. Podz has a fix

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A Star Trek fan deepfaked Next Generation-era Data into the new Picard series

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A.I. hit some major milestones in 2020. Here’s a recap

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How A.I. bumblebee brains could usher in a new era for navigation

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Leaps, bounds, and beyond: Robot agility is progressing at a feverish pace

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What’s the carbon footprint of A.I.? This clever tool breaks it down

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A.I. could play a vital role in the birth of tomorrow’s IVF children

A new A.I. tool could help embryologists select the optimal embryo for IVF treatment. In doing so, it could help increase the chance of fertility success.
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A.I. can tell if you’re a good surgeon just by scanning your brain

Brain-NET, a new deep learning A.I., can accurately predict a surgeon’s certification scores based on their neuroimaging data.
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Deep learning A.I. can imitate the distortion effects of iconic guitar gods

Researchers have created a deep learning A.I. that accurately reproduces the sounds of iconic guitar amps. That's a way more challenging problem than you might think.
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Revisiting the rise of A.I.: How far has artificial intelligence come since 2010?

In terms of the number and scale of its success stories, the 2010s have a good claim for being the greatest 10 years in the history of artificial intelligence. What were the biggest advances in A.I. over the past decade? Digital Trends takes a trip down recent memory lane.
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A.I. researchers create a facial-recognition system for chimps

Facial recognition technology is pretty great ... for humans. Researchers from the U.K.’s University of Oxford and Japan's Kyoto University are opening that up with a new facial recognition system designed for chimpanzees. Here's why it could actually turn out to be useful.
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Deepfake-hunting A.I. could help strike back against the threat of fake news

Deepfakes are an amazing use of A.I. technology in action. They're also a terrifying glimpse at the future of fake news. At Drexel University, researchers have developed a neural network which can spot these manipulated images with a high degree of accuracy.
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Photorealistic A.I. tool can fill in gaps in images, including faces

Chinese researchers at Sun Yat-sen University and Beijing’s Microsoft Research lab have developed a smart new artificial intelligence system which can accurately fill in blank areas in an image, whether that’s a missing face or the front of a building. Here's how it works.
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A.I. can spot galaxy clusters millions of light-years away

Galaxy clusters are enormous structures of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies which move together. But despite their massive size, they can be hard to identify because they are so very far away from us. Now, a British Ph.D. student has created a deep learning A.I. which could help with this issue.
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Amazon worker’s A.I.-powered cat flap stops his pet from bringing in dead animals

To stop his pet cat Metric bringing dead animals into the house, Amazon employee Ben Hamm rigged up an A.I.-powered cat flap, connected to a smart camera and locking system. Here's how it works -- and how you can go about building your own version if you're so inclined.
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This humanlike synthesized speech could be the future of audiobooks

You probably wouldn't want Siri or Alexa reading you an entire audiobook. But a new startup called DeepZen has developed a text-to-speech A.I. that sounds impressively human when it talks. It can even pick up on necessary emotional cues in text and voice them correctly.
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Adobe develops tool to identify Photoshopped images of faces

With deepfake videos making headlines and campaigns against the over-Photoshopping of models, people are more aware than ever of how images can be digitally manipulated. Now the company that created Photoshop, Adobe, wants to give tools to users to let them spot faked images themselves.
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Get ready to waste your day with this creepily accurate text-generating A.I.

Do you remember the text-generating A.I. created by artificial intelligence research lab OpenA.I. that was supposedly too dangerous to release to the public? Well, someone just released a version of it. Check it out -- and get ready to waste your day making it generate text for you.
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A.I. could monitor farms from above to make sure they’re not illegally polluting

The idea of an artificial intelligence that watches from the skies, seeking out wrongdoing, sounds a bit sci-fi dystopia. Actually, it describes a new A.I. being developed to help detect farms that are illegally polluting waterways. Perhaps not quite so dystopian after all, then!
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Facebook is using A.I. to create the world’s most detailed population maps

Using deep learning A.I., census data, and high-res satellite images, Facebook has created the most accurate population density maps ever. Initially covering the majority of the African continent, the company claims it will eventually map nearly the Earth's entire population.
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IBM helped NASA FDL fix a satellite’s instrument using cutting-edge A.I.

How do you fix a satellite that’s floating 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface? That’s a question that NASA had to answer when it ran into problems with one of its crucial satellites. Fortunately, it was able to call in help from IBM and others to solve the issue using A.I.
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ThisPersonDoesNotExist has spawned a host of amazing copycat sites

After the success of the face-generating website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, the same artificial intelligence tool is being used to create everything from imaginary Airbnb listings to creepy fake cats. Check them out in all their surreal, generative adversarial network greatness.
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DeepSqueak is a machine learning A.I. that reveals what rats are chatting about

Just as Aquaman can talk to fish, so too can researchers at the University of Washington chat with rats. Or, at least, they can better understand what rats are squeaking about thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence system with the ingenious name DeepSqueak. Here's how it works.
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What is an artificial neural network? Here’s everything you need to know

Curious about this strange new breed of AI called an artificial neural network? We've got all the info you need right here.
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An A.I. cracks the internet’s squiggly letter bot test in 0.5 seconds

How do you prove you’re a human on the internet? The answer used to be by solving a CAPTCHA puzzle. But maybe not for too much longer. That's because researchers from China and the U.K. have developed a deep learning A.I. that's capable of cracking CAPTCHAs in 0.5 seconds.
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What is deep learning?

What is deep learning? This branch of AI programming works to create computer systems inspired by the way the brain works. These systems are especially good at dealing with large amounts of data and interpreting human-based content, like voices and facial features.
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Scarily realistic ‘deep video portraits’ could take fake news to the next level

Researchers have developed a new deep learning A.I. system which is able to produce scarily realistic 'deep fake' videos -- right down to details like a person's eyebrows or eyes moving as they speak. Check it out in action, and get ready for the next face of fake news.
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Move over, Shakespeare: This sonnet-writing A.I. is the poet we need

'Shall I compare thee to the Singularity?' Researchers at IBM Research Australia have created an artificial intelligence that's capable of generating new Shakespearean sonnets. Trained on around 2,600 real sonnets, it could even threaten to put the Bard out of business.