What’s that liquid? IBM’s flavor-identifying ‘e-tongue’ will tell you
What’s that liquid? IBM’s flavor-identifying ‘e-tongue’ will tell you
Computer scientists at IBM Research have developed an A.I.-assisted e-tongue. The sensor-filled portable device promises to identify different liquids based on their taste alone -- whether that's bottled water, raw materials or, err, bodily fluids. Here is how it works.
Animal-A.I. Olympics will test bots against the latest animal intelligence tests
Animal-A.I. Olympics will test bots against the latest animal intelligence tests
The Animal-A.I. Olympics is a competition open to everyone which aims to test top artificial intelligence agents by putting them through cognition tests designed for animals. Here's what you need to know about it -- including the all-important details about how to enter.
A learning bias found in kids could help make A.I. technology better
A learning bias found in kids could help make A.I. technology better
Computer science researchers at New York University think that a type of learning bias present in kids could help make A.I. better when it comes to learning tasks like understanding language. Here's what they showed in a recent piece of research -- and why it matters.
MIT and IBM’s new A.I. image-editing tool lets you paint with neurons
MIT and IBM’s new A.I. image-editing tool lets you paint with neurons
Imagine Photoshop for the deep fake generation. No, we're not quite there yet, but researchers at IBM and MIT have created an amazing demo showing how cutting-edge A.I. is going to power future image-editing tools. Check out their demonstration -- and have a go for yourself.
New A.I. and voice synthesis makes Gatebox your cutest, cleverest digital pal
New A.I. and voice synthesis makes Gatebox your cutest, cleverest digital pal
The concept of living at home with a friendly, intelligent digital character is almost a reality, due to a partnership between Line, the popular messaging app, and Gatebox, a cult Japanese artificial intelligence company. Line's Clova A.I. will live alongside Gatebox's character, and now we can see how it will work.
A Netflix data scientist taught an A.I. to recognize smooching scenes in movies
A Netflix data scientist taught an A.I. to recognize smooching scenes in movies
A senior data scientist at Netflix has taught an A.I. to recognize kissing scenes in movies. Amir Ziai developed the tool as part of his work to obtain an A.I. graduate certificate from Stanford University. Here's why it turns out to be a surprisingly difficult task to automate.
Create apocalyptic A.I. worlds with this camera app that removes people from pics
Create apocalyptic A.I. worlds with this camera app that removes people from pics
What would the shots in your camera roll look like without any people? Bye Bye Camera is a new iOS app that uses artificial intelligence to remove all people from the photo. It's not designed for practical applications, but as an artistic statement about the growth of A.I.
Apple’s new Seattle campus may mean big things for Siri, artificial intelligence
Apple’s new Seattle campus may mean big things for Siri, artificial intelligence
Apple plans to hire 2,000 more employees for a new Seattle campus, the company announced Monday, with a significant number of those jobs focused on the Siri voice assistant and artificial intelligence. The new campus marks a major expansion right in Amazon and Microsoft's backyard.
Walmart using A.I.-powered cameras to spot dodgy shoppers at self-checkouts
Walmart using A.I.-powered cameras to spot dodgy shoppers at self-checkouts
Walmart is using computer vision technology at some of its stores in an effort to spot sneaky behavior at its self-checkout counters. The A.I.-powered cameras automatically identify any dodgy activity before alerting staff, who can then intervene to confirm the situation.
This humanlike synthesized speech could be the future of audiobooks
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.
PowerPoint is easier than ever with Microsoft’s new A.I. tools
PowerPoint is easier than ever with Microsoft’s new A.I. tools
Microsoft is bringing the power of artificial intelligence to PowerPoint with new tools to help Office 365 users tell impactful stories. These tools make it easy to design stunning slides by suggesting designs, add context to your data, and even help you become a better speaker through smarter coaching.
Facebook builds virtual homes to train A.I. agents in realistic environments
Facebook builds virtual homes to train A.I. agents in realistic environments
Researchers at Facebook have created Habitat, a platform that enables rapid training for A.I. agents by placing them in virtual homes. While it may take years for robots to learn tasks in the physical world, A.I. will receive thousands of hours of training in just a few minutes in Habitat.
Adobe develops tool to identify Photoshopped images of faces
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.
As Google keeps racing ahead, where is Apple’s A.I. strategy?
As Google keeps racing ahead, where is Apple’s A.I. strategy?
As the Google Assistant continues to grow and improve, Apple’s Siri is lagging behind. While Google prizes artificial intelligence and machine learning, Apple is still focused on hardware. Just what is Apple’s A.I. strategy? Can it catch up, or even close the gap, and why does it matter anyway?
Top Oxford researcher talks the risk of automation on employment
Top Oxford researcher talks the risk of automation on employment
The threat of robots and A.I. stealing jobs is hotly debated. In a new book, titled The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation, Oxford professor Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey sorts the truth from the fiction. Dr. Frey spoke with Digital Trends about his findings.
Google’s DeepMind A.I. defeats human opponents in Quake III Capture the Flag
Google’s DeepMind A.I. defeats human opponents in Quake III Capture the Flag
Google's DeepMind lab created For the Win, an artificial intelligence program that was able to learn Quake III Arena's Capture the Flag mode well enough to beat human opponents. Interestingly, a team with a human player and an A.I. agent had a better chance of winning than a team with just A.I. agents.
The promise and pitfalls of using robots to care for the elderly
The promise and pitfalls of using robots to care for the elderly
There's something dystopian about the idea of a future in which robots care for the elderly. But is this something we should really fight against? A number of new projects show that a future of caregiving robots and artificial intelligence may be just what the doctor ordered.
Yakuza director thinks PS5’s evolution will focus on A.I. and machine learning
Yakuza director thinks PS5’s evolution will focus on A.I. and machine learning
Toshihiro Nagoshi, the director for the Yakuza series, revealed some new details pertaining to the next entry and the new lead character. He also dropped a few nuggets related to the PS5. One significant take is that Nagoshi thinks the most significant evolution on the next-gen console is A.I., not graphics.
The Tamagotchi Effect: How digital pets shaped the tech habits of a generation
The Tamagotchi Effect: How digital pets shaped the tech habits of a generation
Tamagotchis, the egg-shaped virtual pets that were the obsession of kids and the scourge of many parents and teachers in the late 1990s, are making a comeback. Here's how the originals helped shape the tech views of an entire generation of kids, now in their twenties and thirties.
Samsung’s new A.I. software makes generating fake videos even easier
Samsung’s new A.I. software makes generating fake videos even easier
A.I. is getting better and better at producing fake videos. Now Samsung has developed software which makes creating fake videos even easier. The new software can create somewhat convincing fakes from just a few images of a person. Potentially, it could even work with a single image of a face.
Alexa and Google Home smart speakers bring A.I. to nearly one in three U.S. homes
Alexa and Google Home smart speakers bring A.I. to nearly one in three U.S. homes
A new Consumer Technology Association (CTA) study found that 31% of U.S. households own smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home. If that percentage seems low, consider that only 8% of households owned smart speakers in 2016. Smart speaker ownership almost doubled in each of the last two years.
Get ready to waste your day with this creepily accurate text-generating A.I.
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.
Faith in superior abilities of machines is key to accepting self-driving cars
Faith in superior abilities of machines is key to accepting self-driving cars
Some people love the idea of self-driving cars, while other people find the concept terrifying or creepy. A new survey has revealed the biggest difference between these groups is not how open they are to new technology in general, but whether they believe machines can outperform humans in driving tasks.
Everything announced at Microsoft Build 2019, from Edge to Azure
Everything announced at Microsoft Build 2019, from Edge to Azure
Microsoft has a lot of exciting news at this year's Build conference and much of it was announced during the major keynote address to kick things off. In the lead up to the rest of the exciting Build show, here's everything we learned about what Microsoft has coming up in 2019.
A.I. is getting scary good at generating fake humans. Watch this demo
A.I. is getting scary good at generating fake humans. Watch this demo
Researchers from Japan have shown off a new artificial intelligence system that is able to create photorealistic, high-res videos of people who don't actually exist outside of a computer. Here's how its Adversarial Generative Network technology works -- and what this advance means.
How IBM’s cutting-edge A.I. put a losing soccer team on a winning streak
How IBM’s cutting-edge A.I. put a losing soccer team on a winning streak
If you’ve seen the 2011 movie Moneyball, you’ll be familiar with the way that data crunching can be used to create a winning sport team against the odds. That's what IBM attempted recently when it turned the power of its Watson A.I. to improving the chances of a UK soccer team.
Groundbreaking A.I. can synthesize speech based on a person’s brain activity
Groundbreaking A.I. can synthesize speech based on a person’s brain activity
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a way to use artificial intelligence to turn brain signals into spoken words. It could one day pave the way for people who cannot speak or otherwise communicate to be able to talk with those around them.
Luminar Accent A.I. can now recognize faces for more natural instant edits
Luminar Accent A.I. can now recognize faces for more natural instant edits
Want to edit faster? Skylum Luminar's latest update enhances the Accent A.I. to use machine learning for instant enhancements. The tool now recognizes faces for more natural skin tones along with other enhancements. Luminar 3.1.0 also includes a few organization and workflow tweaks.
Amal and George Clooney want to change the world. Can Microsoft help?
Amal and George Clooney want to change the world. Can Microsoft help?
Microsoft and The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) unveiled the AI-powered TrialWatch app Thursday morning, a new tool in CFJ’s ongoing TrialWatch effort to shine a light on injustice in courts around the globe – which too often are simply barbaric.
Kia’s HabaNiro concept is an autonomous electric car that knows when you’re sad
Kia’s HabaNiro concept is an autonomous electric car that knows when you’re sad
Debuting at the 2019 New York Auto Show, the Kia HabaNiro concept is supposed to preview the future of the everyday car. That future will include artificial intelligence tech that can read the driver's emotions, according to Kia. The HabaNiro's electric powertrain also provides 300 miles of range, Kia says.
How emotion-tracking A.I. will change computing as we know it
How emotion-tracking A.I. will change computing as we know it
Affectiva is just one of the startups working to create emotion-tracking artificial intelligence that can work out how you're feeling. From gaming to cars to healthcare, here are some of the ways that emotion-tracking tech promises to revolutionize computing as we know it.
Digital Trends Live: PlayStation 5, Samsung Galaxy Fold, and more
Digital Trends Live: PlayStation 5, Samsung Galaxy Fold, and more
Episode 110 of Digital Trends Live saw the latest information for the PlayStation 5, and Amazon reportedly listening to private conversations to improve the Echo. We also sat down with Travis Schneider of PatientPop to discuss how healthcare providers are modernizing patient care.
Animals, algorithms, and obstacle courses: Welcome to the A.I. Olympics
Animals, algorithms, and obstacle courses: Welcome to the A.I. Olympics
Scheduled to take place this June, the Animal-A.I. Olympics will test whether the world's top artificial intelligence algorithms can complete intelligence tests designed for animals. Here's why that matters -- and why this could be the ultimate challenge for today's A.I.
A.I. could monitor farms from above to make sure they’re not illegally polluting
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!