Martin Anderson - Journalist, Writer and Editor on Machine Learning (AI/ML)
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NOTE: As of December 2022, I am now working full-time for Metaphysic.ai, and am not currently available for freelance work.
I'm Martin Anderson, a writer occupied exclusively with machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and closely-related topics, with an emphasis on image synthesis, computer vision, and NLP. If you've had a look at my output and are considering working with me, please find out more here.
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- The Road to Realistic Full-Body Deepfakes
Featured on Hacker News Front Page - To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways
Featured on Hacker News Front Page - Is DALL-E 2 Just ‘Gluing Things Together’ Without Understanding Their Relationships?
Featured on Hacker News Front Page - Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go, In Terms Of Input?
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Index
Featured on Hacker News
Various editorial and news output of mine, from different platforms, that made it to the front page of Hacker News. Click here
Editorial News & Features
Unite.ai - News and news analysis on ML/AI, largely on emerging research.
Ross Dawson - News and features on machine learning and futurism.
Substack - Personal blog on Machine Learning
Intelligent Automation Network (formerly aiia.net - Features on Machine Learning)
Techerati.com (fka The Stack) - I edited this tech news site for nearly three years, and include here only content related to machine learning, AI, and Big Data, though I wrote several hundred other pieces on different topics in my time at this platform.
B2B
Metaphysic - Features on deepfakes and other facial synthesis technologies
Metaphysic (Wiki) - Knowledge Base entries about ML in image synthesis
Width.ai (B2B) (formerly scala.ai) - Features on Machine Learning
IFlexion/ITransition (B2B) - Features on machine learning and business analytics.
Featured on Hacker News Front Page
A Call to Legislate ‘Backdoors’ Into Stable Diffusion
14th February 2023
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NVIDIA’s Implicit Warping Is a Potentially Powerful Deepfake Technique
17th October 2022
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The Road to Realistic Full-Body Deepfakes
22nd September 2022
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Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?
1st September 2022
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To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways
8th August 2022
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Is DALL-E 2 Just ‘Gluing Things Together’ Without Understanding Their Relationships?
4th August 2022
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Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders Through AI Facial Expression Evaluation
3rd August 2022
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Detecting Deepfake Video Calls Through Monitor Illumination
6th July 2022
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NeRF: An Eventual Successor for Deepfakes?
28th June 2022
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Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community
14th June 2022
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Google Has Banned the Training of Deepfakes in Colab
28th May 2022
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Reshaping Human Body Types With AI
31st March 2022
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‘Simple’ AI Can Anticipate Bank Managers’ Loan Decisions to Over 95% Accuracy
18th February 2022
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Creating Artificial Mechanical Turks With Pretrained Language Models
30th December 2021
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Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender, AI Researchers Find
17th December 2021
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Attacking Natural Language Processing Systems With Adversarial Examples
14th December 2021
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The ‘Invisible’, Often Unhappy Workforce That’s Deciding the Future of AI
13th December 2021
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Training Computer Vision Models on Random Noise Instead of Real Images
9th December 2021
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Human Image Synthesis From Reflected Radio Waves
8th December 2021
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A Cartel of Influential Datasets Is Dominating Machine Learning Research, New Study Suggests
6th December 2021
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Why Adversarial Image Attacks Are No Joke
29th November 2021
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Disney Combines CGI With Neural Rendering to tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley
30th November 2021
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Facebook: ‘Nanotargeting’ Users Based Solely on Their Perceived Interests
14th October 2021
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Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35 Million Bank Heist in 2020
15th October 2021
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AI Predicts Accident Hot-Spots From Satellite Imagery and GPS Data
13th October 2021
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Minority Voices ‘Filtered’ Out of Google Natural Language Processing Models
24th September 2021
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Hobbling Computer Vision Datasets Against Unauthorized Use
18th September 2021
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The Shortcomings of Amazon Mechanical Turk May Threaten Natural Language Generation Systems
17th September 2021
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MIT: Measuring Media Bias in Major News Outlets With Machine Learning
14th September 2021
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Optical Adversarial Attack Can Change the Meaning of Road Signs
16th August 2021
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‘Master Faces’ That Can Bypass Over 40% Of Facial ID Authentication Systems
4th August 2021
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AI-Generated Language Is Beginning to Pollute Scientific Literature
19th July 2021
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Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go In Terms Of Input?
13th May 2021
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Relighting And Color Grading With Machine Learning
5th April 2021
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Best futurists ever: The big hits and the misses from Arthur C. Clarke's eccentric and influential predictions
6th December 2018
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Best futurists ever: The predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the waterbed
November 20th 2018
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Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering
21st April 2016
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Editorial News & Features
Unite.ai
NVIDIA’s eDiffi Diffusion Model Allows ‘Painting With Words’ and More
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UniTune: Google’s Alternative Neural Image Editing Technique
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DALL-E 2’s Unique Solution to Double Meanings
20th October 2022 |
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AI-Assisted Object Editing with Google’s Imagic and Runway’s ‘Erase and Replace’
18th October 2022 |
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GOTCHA– A CAPTCHA System for Live Deepfakes
17th October 2022 |
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Deepfake Detectors Pursue New Ground: Latent Diffusion Models and GANs
14th October 2022 |
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Creating Full Body Deepfakes by Combining Multiple NeRFs
13th October 2022 |
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Separating ‘Fused’ Humans in Computer Vision
10th October 2022 |
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Teaching Robots About Tools With Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
5th October 2022 |
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Encoding Images Against Use in Deepfake and Image Synthesis Systems
25th September 2022 |
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How Stable Diffusion Could Develop as a Mainstream Consumer Product
15th September 2022 |
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Three Challenges Ahead for Stable Diffusion
6th September 2022 |
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Deep Learning Models Might Struggle to Recognize AI-Generated Images
1st September 2022 |
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Depth Information Can Reveal Deepfakes in Real-Time
24th August 2022 |
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JPEG Compression Increases Facial Recognition Error Rate for Non-Caucasian Faces, Study Finds
22nd August 2022 |
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Restoring Over-Compressed Social Media Videos With Machine Learning
19th August 2022 |
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Using AI to Summarize Lengthy ‘How To’ Videos
16th August 2022 |
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An AI System That Can Make Images of People More ‘Beautiful’
11th August 2022 |
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The ‘Nonsense Language’ That Could Subvert Image Synthesis Moderation Systems
9th August 2022 |
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Is DALL-E 2 Just ‘Gluing Things Together’ Without Understanding Their Relationships?
4th August 2022 |
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Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders Through AI Facial Expression Evaluation
3rd August 2022 |
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‘Degraded’ Synthetic Faces Could Help Improve Facial Image Recognition
1st August 2022 |
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Relighting Neural Radiance Fields With Any Environment Map
28th July 2022 |
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AI Offers Improved Tracking of Offshore Property Ownership in the UK
25th July 2022 |
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Improving the Photorealism of Driving Simulations with Generative Adversarial Networks
23rd July 2022 |
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Researchers Identify a Resilient Trait of Deepfakes That Could Aid Long-Term Detection
22nd July 2022 |
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DeepMind: AI May Inherit Human Cognitive Limitations, Could Benefit From ‘Formal Education’
15th July 2022 |
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An AI-Driven Bias Checker for News Articles, Available in Python
14th July 2022 |
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Our Subconscious Deepfake-Detection Skills Could Power Future Automated Systems
12th July 2022 |
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Detecting Deepfake Video Calls Through Monitor Illumination
6th July 2022 |
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A Detection System for Pure Image Synthesis Frameworks Like DALL-E 2
30th June 2022 |
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Identifying Instagram Crowdturfers with Machine Learning
28th June 2022 |
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Adobe and Meta Decry Misuse of User Studies in Computer Vision Research
24th June 2022 |
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How to Keep Smartphones Cool When They’re Running Machine Learning Models
23rd June 2022 |
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How to Know When Image Synthesis Systems Are Producing Genuinely ‘Original’ Material
20th June 2022 |
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RigNeRF: A New Deepfakes Method That Uses Neural Radiance Fields
15th June 2022 |
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Reddit Bans ‘SFW’ Deepfake Community
14th June 2022 |
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GAN as a Face Renderer for ‘Traditional’ CGI
7th June 2022 |
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Curbing the Growing Power Needs of Machine Learning
2nd June 2022 |
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Google Has Banned the Training of Deepfakes in Colab
28th May 2022 |
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Retrieving Real-World Email Addresses From Pretrained Natural Language Models
26th May 2022 |
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The ‘Racial Categorization’ Challenge for CLIP-based Image Synthesis Systems
24th May 2022 |
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Detecting ‘Professional’ Malicious Online Reviews with Machine Learning
20th May 2022 |
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Removing Objects From Video More Efficiently With Machine Learning
19th May 2022 |
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Stealing Machine Learning Models Through API Output
18th May 2022 |
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NeRF: The Challenge of Editing the Content of Neural Radiance Fields
16th May 2022 |
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Assessing the Historical Accuracy of ImageNet
15th May 2022 |
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Restructuring Faces in Videos With Machine Learning
9th May 2022 |
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Editing a GAN’s Latent Space With ‘Blobs’
8th May 2022 |
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Anticipating New Spam Domains Through Machine Learning
5th May 2022 |
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Devaluing Stocks With Adversarially Crafted Retweets
4th May 2022 |
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A Video Codec Designed for AI Analysis
1st May 2022 |
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AI Image Matting That Understands Scenes
24th April 2022 |
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Biometric Authentication by Grinding Your Teeth
19th April 2022 |
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Tackling ‘Bad Hair Days’ in Human Image Synthesis
15th April 2022 |
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Aesthetic Preference Recognition as a Potential Authentication Factor
13 April 2022 |
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Machine Learning vs. Cookie Consent Systems
12th April 2022 |
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AI Helps Nervous Speakers to ‘Read the Room’ During Videoconferences
11th April 2022 |
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Deepfake Detection Based on Original Human Biometric Traits
8th April 2022 |
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Consistent AI Video Content Editing with Text-Guided Input
7th April 2022 |
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The Perils of Using Quotations to Authenticate NLG Content
5th April 2022 |
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Research: Anti-Spam Algorithms Showed Political Bias During 2020 USA Elections
4th April 2022 |
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‘Creative’ Facial Verification with Generative Adversarial Networks
30th March 2022 |
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Fidelity vs. Realism in Deepfake Videos
29th March 2022 |
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NeRFocus: Bringing Lightweight Focus Control to Neural Radiance Fields
12th March 2022 |
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Generating and Identifying Propaganda With Machine Learning
11th March 2022 |
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Faking ‘Better’ Bodies With AI
10th March 2022 |
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Predicting Domestic Violence From Liquor Store Activity With Machine Learning
9th March 2022 |
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Identifying Celebrity Deepfakes From Outer Face Regions
4th March 2022 |
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Why AI Isn’t Providing Better Product Recommendations
2nd March 2022 |
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Expressing Emotion Through Typography With AI
24th February 2022 |
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Deepfakes Can Effectively Fool Many Major Facial ‘Liveness’ APIs
23rd February 2022 |
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Adobe Research Extends Disentangled GAN Face Editing
16th February 2022 |
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The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods With Block-NeRF
11th February 2022 |
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10 Best Machine Learning Algorithms
10th February 2022 |
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Why Deepfakes Cannot Currently Convey Subtlety of Emotion
3rd February 2022 |
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Using Reviews to Create a Recommender System That Works
1st February 2022 |
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Analyzing 25 Years of Privacy Policies with Machine Learning
31st January 2022 |
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China Proposes Increased Regulation of Deepfakes and Other AI Synthesis Systems
28th January 2022 |
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European and UK Deepfake Regulation Proposals Are Surprisingly Limited
24th January 2022 |
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AI Predicts How CEO Personality Affects Company Performance
20th January 2022 |
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Analyzing Depressed and Alcoholic Chatbots
18th January 2022 |
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Overinterpretation May Be a Bigger and More Intractable Threat Than Overfitting
13th January 2022 |
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Solving CAPTCHAs With Machine Learning to Enable Dark Web Research
11th January 2022 |
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CSET: China Leads the World in Computer Vision Surveillance Research
6th January 2022 |
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Changing Gender and Race in Image Search Results With Machine Learning
5th January 2022 |
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DRM for Computer Vision Datasets
4th January 2022 |
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Tackling the US Government’s PDF Mountain With Computer Vision
28th December 2021 |
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Converting LiDAR to Photo-Real Imagery With a Generative Adversarial Network
23rd December 2021 |
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Creating Neural Search and Rescue Fly-Through Environments with Mega-NeRF
21st December 2021 |
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Image Synthesis Sector Has Adopted a Flawed Metric, Research Claims
20th December 2021 |
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NLP Models Struggle to Understand Recursive Noun Phrases
16th December 2021 |
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Detecting Eye Contact From Body Pose With Machine Learning
10th December 2021 | Web-Archived Version
Orchestrating Facial Synthesis With Semantic Segmentation
7th December 2021 | Web-Archived Version
The Unintended Benefit of Mapping a GAN’s Latent Space
4th December 2021 | Web-Archived Version
Altering Emotions in Video Footage With AI
3rd December 2021 | Web-Archived Version
AI Researchers Estimate 97% Of EU Websites Fail GDPR Privacy Requirements- Especially User Profiling
26th November 2021 |
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Neural Rendering: NeRF Takes a Walk in the Fresh Air
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Recognizing Employee Stress Through Facial Analysis at Work
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Understanding Twitch Emotes in Sentiment Analysis
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AI-Based Generative Writing Models Frequently ‘Copy and Paste’ Source Data
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Disentanglement Is the Next Deepfake Revolution
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Why Historical Language Is a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence
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Identifying Sponsored Content in News Sites With Machine Learning
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A New and Simpler Deepfake Method That Outperforms Prior Approaches
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Creating a GPT-Style Language Model for a Single Question
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Creating Satellite Imagery From Vector Maps
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Current AI Practices Could Be Enabling a New Generation of Copyright Trolls
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Beyond ‘Reader Mode’ With Machine Learning
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Determining Gender Through Walking Styles With Machine Learning
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An Authentic Focusing System for ‘Cheap’ Augmented Reality
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AI Research Envisages Separate Volume Controls for Dialog, Music and Sound Effects
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New Attack ‘Clones’ and Abuses Your Unique Online ID via Browser Fingerprinting
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An AI Method to Reveal ‘Shielded’ PIN Entries at ATMs
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Projecting Climate Change Into Photos With Generative Adversarial Networks
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NeRF: Training Drones in Neural Radiance Environments
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Towards Automated Science Writing
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Google Research Identifies a Bottleneck in Hyperscale Approaches to AI
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Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
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Amazon Mechanical Turk Pays Less Than 40% of US Minimum Wage, Research Suggests
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Fighting Adblock-Blocking With Machine Learning
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Retinal Veins Reveal Race, Widening Scope for AI Race Bias
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The High Carbon Footprint of German Auto-Translation Models
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Downsizing High Resolution Images With Machine Learning
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TikTok Developers Erasing Faces for Augmented Reality Applications
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Synthetic Data Does Not Reliably Protect Privacy, Researchers Claim
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Solving the JPEG Artifact Problem in Computer Vision Datasets
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Popular COVIDx Dataset Criticized by UK Researchers
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The Dawn of Deepfaked Emotions
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An NLP Approach to Exaggeration Detection in Science Journalism
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Controlling Drones Through Direct Vision
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Getting NLP to Challenge Misinformed Questions
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AI Uncovers the Secret Activity Revealed by Blank Walls
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Identifying Drivers’ Mobile Phone Abuse With Polarizing Filters and Object Recognition
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GPUs May Be Better, Not Just Faster, at Training Deep Neural Networks
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Unifying Speech and Gesture Synthesis
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An AI Soulmate Recommender System Based Only On Images
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Explainable AI May Surrender Confidential Data More Easily
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An AI-Driven Invisible Mobile Keyboard That Lets You Type 157% Faster
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AI Identifies Instagram Drug Dealers With Near 95% Accuracy
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Better Machine Learning Performance Through CNN-based Image Resizing
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NVIDIA Confirms Voltage Glitch Attack Vulnerability on Tesla Autopilot
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Using Hands as a Biometric Identifier in Criminal Video Forensics
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Making a Machine Learning Model Forget About You
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Protecting Twitter-Based Botnet Command and Control Servers With Neural Networks
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SofGAN: A GAN Face Generator That Offers Greater Control
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Real-Time DeepFake Streaming With DeepFaceLive
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Creating a Custom Generative Adversarial Network With Sketches
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Demoting Outdated ‘Truth’ With Machine Learning
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Identifying Deepfake Data Sources With AI-Based Tagging
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DeepTeeth: A Biometric ID System That Uses Teeth
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An AI-Based Lie Detector for Call Center Conversations
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A Machine Learning Method to Block Ads Based on Local Browser Behavior
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A Mobile Recharging System for Power-Starved Autonomous Robots
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Teaching AI to Understand and Use Images in Dialogue
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Alibaba Develops Search Engine Simulation AI That Uses Live Data
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A Browser-Based Image Annotation Tool for Computer Vision Datasets
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Re-Identifying Source Data for GAN Generators
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MLaaS: Preventing API-Driven Model Theft With Variational Autoencoders
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UrbanScene3D: Semantically Labeled Cityscapes for Autonomous Vehicle Research
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The Failings of the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act
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Mapping Out Paths for the Blind With Machine Learning
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Determining Intoxication With Machine Learning Analysis of Eyes
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Adobe: Relighting the Real World With Neural Rendering
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Uncovering Our ‘Hidden Visits’ With Cell Phone Data And Machine Learning
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Can Apple’s HDR Augmented Reality Environments Solve Reflections For Neural Rendering?
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Re-Identifying People Through Wearable Health Data And Machine Learning
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Neural Parts: Breaking Down Primitives For Meaningful Inferred Geometry
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New Deepfake Method Solves The ‘Face Host’ Problem
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Synthetic Data: Bridging The Occlusion Gap With Grand Theft Auto
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Mapping Emotional Dynamics From Movie Scripts
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Identifying Harmful Video Content With Movie Trailers And Machine Learning
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Synthetic Data: Changing Race In Facial Images To Address Bias In Medical Datasets
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40 Years Of Automation Has Pushed Down US Wages More Than De-unionization Or Offshoring
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US Federal And Military AI: New Platform Offers Algorithm Validation And Accreditation
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A ‘Detective’ AI Can Identify Obscure People From Multiple Sources
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Google’s LipSync3D Offers Improved ‘Deepfaked’ Mouth Movement Synchronization
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A Cockroach With AI-Enabled Search And Rescue Equipment
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Preventing 'Hallucination' In GPT-3 And Other Complex Language Models
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NeRF Moves Another Step Closer To Replacing CGI
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The Struggle To Stop AI From Cheating On Tests
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Assessing Carbon Capture in Trees With Machine Learning
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AI Likely To Price Products Higher, Without Regulatory Intervention
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Detecting ‘Aggressive Driving’ With Machine Learning And Edge Computing
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New Form Of Click Fraud Identified Through Machine Learning
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Re-Identifying Banned Social Media Commenters With Machine Learning
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Reaction GIFs Offer A New Key To Emotion Recognition In NLP
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NeRF: Facebook Co-Research Develops Mixed Static/Dynamic Video Synthesis
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Determining The Extent Of Video Surveillance Through Google Street View Data
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A Machine Learning System To Rewrite An Article While You Read It
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Google Envisages A GPT-3-like Query System, Without Search Results
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ST-NeRF: Compositing And Editing For Video Synthesis
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A Universal Facial ID ‘Master Key’ Through Machine Learning
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Andrew Ng Criticizes The Culture Of Overfitting In Machine Learning
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Microsoft Proposes GODIVA, A Text-To-Video Machine Learning Framework
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Should Recommender Systems Be Exempt From The Post-Tracking Age?
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Machine Learning Extracts Attack Data From Verbose Threat Reports
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Creating Synthetic Wound Datasets With Generative Adversarial Networks
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Towards Real-Time AI Humans With Neural Lumigraph Rendering
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Estimating The True State Of Global Poverty With Machine Learning
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Immigration Policies An Ongoing Concern To AI Researchers
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Lip-Reading With Visemes And Machine Learning
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Plastic Surgery For GAN-Generated Faces
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AI Can Identify A Person From A Single Footstep
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Ross Dawson
Ross Dawson is a seasoned futurist in high demand. I contribute news, news analysis and general articles to his content stream.
Features
The Future Of AI Image Synthesis
A look at the new wave of text-to-image AI Colabs emerging in the wake of OpenAI's DALL-E. Also featured on Hacker Noon.
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The Limited Future Of Deepfakes
The world fears the advance of deepfake technology - but behind the scenes, the open source projects behind it are stuck in a number of blind alleys. With contributions from industry professionals, this feature looks at the truth of the deepfakes menace. Also featured on Hacker Noon.
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A comprehensive guide to how AI is transforming the visual effects (VFX) industry
[May 2019] New machine learning techniques promise to transform the visual effects industry in a way not seen since the CGI revolution.
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Best futurists ever: The big hits and the misses from Arthur C. Clarke's eccentric and influential predictions
A look back at the output of one of the most optimistic and influential futurists of the 20th century. Featured on Hacker News.
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Best futurists ever: The predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the waterbed
Robert A. Heinlein's contributions to culture extend from linguistics and social theory through to innovations in furniture. Featured on Hacker News and Fark.
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PoE-GAN: NVIDIA’s New Image Synthesis Framework
11th December 2021
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Substack
Relighting And Color Grading With Machine Learning
A short look at an emerging field in machine learning..
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Exploring the Blade Runner mood with Big Sleep and CLIP-GLaSS
Examining the emerging popularity of CLIP-based image synthesis systems at the start of 2020.
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Real-Time Deepfake Streaming Is Apparently Coming To World's Most-Used DeepFake Software
From April 2021, a look at DeepFaceLive, which can stream deepfake likenesses into webcams.
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Intelligent Automation Network (formerly AIIA.net)
In the couple of months before I left the UK for good in 2017, I filled in as editor at this popular IQPC portal centered around AI and machine learning. Below are a few of the pieces I output while I was there.
Though archive links are provided, the original URLs are still in force at the time of writing.
Was that a question? Neural networks need to know
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Why comment trolls are likely to beat Machine Learning
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What isn't AI?
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Programming fatalistic, uncertain or suicidal AI
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Machine Learning reaches into the unknown
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Why AI could cause 'full fat' computing to interrupt the mobile revolution
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The problems of policing artificial intelligence
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Viral: Fark
Techerati.com (fka The Stack)
I was chief editor on this domain for nearly three years (2014-17), pulling it out from a terminal traffic trough and through a complete site migration and re-imagining. The site was regularly featured on the likes of Slashdot, Hacker News and Fark.
Since the project had a very small staff, my own writing contribution was extensive. I also commissioned and edited features. Additionally I liaised with the marketing and sales departments, and undertook overseas travel to promote the property.
A re-migration in 2019 has removed some images and attributions. You can find them restored in the accompanying archive links below, together with the articles' current URLs and associated viral conversations.
Please note: Only the 'Web-archived version' links below have captured the images used inside articles. Please use those links to see the articles as they were originally presented.
RAISR: Is Google's AI-driven image resizing algorithm 'dishonest'?
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot | Fark
Examining Yahoo's nightmare vision of 'smart' billboards
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
What does Big Data have in store for online map services?
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
Adobe develops AI-driven approach that could end the age of the green screen in movies and VR
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: 5k+ shares: Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook et al (see social shares in main link)
Yahoo releases largest ever machine learning dataset to research
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
DC policy-maker: Invest in AI, don't worry about your jobs
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
Why sarcasm is such a problem in artificial intelligence
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
Neural network chess computer abandons brute force for selective, 'human' approach
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark | Slashdot
Why occlusion is the next great frontier for image recognition
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark | Slashdot
Google sees UK as prime market for self-driving cars due to 'non-regulatory approach'
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
Virgin boss warns industry of pending automation backlash
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
Google's hive-mind robot arms learn to negotiate a cluttered world
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
Using Google Street View data to guide autonomous vehicles in bad weather
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
How sports and movie commentaries can speed up the development of artificial intelligence
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark
Computers read 1.8 billion words of fiction to learn how to anticipate human behaviour
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
Deep learning identifies dangerous roads from sound input
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Fark | Slashdot
BBC launches machine-translated synthetic voiceovers
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
New photographs from dead photographers with convolutional neural networks
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Viral: Pinterest / Facebook
Baidu and NVIDIA claim AI system that can imitate your voice
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Viral: Fark
Apple Purchases AI company Emotient to read users' expressions
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
New algorithm identifies lockstep reputation attacks
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Viral: Slashdot
Keystroke dynamics could be used to distinguish children from adults online
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Viral: Fark
UK gov: AI growth could re-identify individuals from big data
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Viral: Fark
New music notation system could render modern musical instruments 'useless'
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Viral: Fark
Science vs. clickbait
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Viral: Fark
New military automated airdrops will use image recognition instead of GPS
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Viral: Fark
Big Data attempts to find meaning in 40 years of UK political debate
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
Netflix-derived algorithm tells you when your best employee is about to leave you
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
The gap between inaccurate viral news stories and the truth is 13 hours
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Viral: Slashdot
'Mood mining': researchers propose app to judge your long-term state of mind from your voice
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
TV Networks turn to neuroscience to commercialize viewers
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
We can't tell fake images from real, even when we're looking for them, research finds
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot | Fark
An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs
Archived: Web-archived version (includes original pictures)
Viral: Slashdot
B2B
Metaphysic
Generating Temporally Coherent High Resolution Video With Stable Diffusion
21st April 2023
Web-archived version
Adobe’s DreamBooth Clone Is 100X Faster and Obtains Better Results
7th April 2023
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The Challenge of Using AI to Change Facial Expressions
7th April 2023
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VIVE3D: Meta’s GAN-Based Deepfake and Video-Altering Framework
31st March 2023
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The Small Faces That Vex AI Surveillance Systems
16th March 2023
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GigaGAN: Stable Diffusion for Generative Adversarial Networks
10th March 2023
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Detecting Deepfakes by Studying ‘Disconnected’ Facial Expressions
7th March 2023
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Using the Internet as a ‘Live’ Dataset for AI Training
2nd March 2023
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Correcting ‘Selfie’-Based Facial Distortion, for Psychological and AI Development Purposes
28th February 2023
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Obtaining Editable Neural Humans From Short Video Clips
24th February 2023
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New System Offers Superior Layout Composition for Stable Diffusion
21st February 2023
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NeRF Breaks Free From Being an ‘Animated Photo’
17th February 2023
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Real-Time, Photorealistic Hands for Neural Environments
16th February 2023
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A Call to Legislate ‘Backdoors’ Into Stable Diffusion
14th February 2023
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Preventing Stable Diffusion ‘Copyright Infringement’ by Poisoning The Source Data
13th February 2023
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Dataset Abuse Is Rife in Computer Vision – But the Solutions May Be Drastic
9th February 2023
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New System Enables Tight Compositions and High-Res Output in Stable Diffusion
7th February 2023
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Stable Diffusion and Imagen Can Reproduce Training Data Almost Perfectly
31st January 2023
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Image Synthesis Has an SEO Problem
24th January 2023
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Creating Better Avatars with a Dual-Domain Approach
20th January 2023
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The ‘Cheap’ Decisions That Can Affect Image Synthesis
13th January 2023
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Temporally Coherent Human Video Deepfakes Via Diffusion
10th January 2023
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Muse: Google’s Super-Fast Text-To-Image Model Abandons Latent Diffusion for Transformers
5th January 2023
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Entanglement in Image Synthesis
21st December 2023
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High-Quality Deepfake Puppetry in Thirty Seconds
16th December 2023
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Using Diffusion Models to Create Superior NeRF Avatars
14th December 2022
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Research Proposes ‘Moral’ Sanitization for Text-To-Image Systems Such as Stable Diffusion
8th December 2022
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Creating State-of-the-Art NeRF Head Avatars in Minutes
29th November 2022
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InstructPix2Pix: Accurate, AI-Based Image-Editing With GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion
25th November 2022
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Editing Out the Real World With ‘Diminished Reality
21st November 2022
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A New Social Image-Sharing System Deepfakes All People by Default
14th November 2022
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The Future of Using Public Images for AI Research
8th November 2022
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NVIDIA’s Implicit Warping Is a Potentially Powerful Deepfake Technique
17th October 2022
Web-archived version | Hacker News thread
Creating Authentic Human Motion Synthesis via Diffusion
10th October 2022
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Custom Styles in Stable Diffusion, Without Retraining or High Computing Resources
3rd October 2022
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The Road to Realistic Full-Body Deepfakes
22nd September 2022
Web-archived version | Hacker News thread
Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?
1st September 2022
Web-archived version | Hacker News thread
Are We Heading For ‘Deepfake CAPTCHA’ Challenges in Video and Voice Calls?
23rd August 2022
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Detecting Deepfakes Through Personality Assessment
15th August 2022
Web-archived version
To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways
8th August 2022
Web-archived version | Hacker News thread (8th August 2022)
Covered in The Next Web, PC Mag, The Register, ZDnet, Biometric Update and MindMatters, among others.
Defeating Deepfaked Video Calls by Monitoring Electrical Fluctuations
1st August 2022
Web-archived version
The Future of Generative Adversarial Networks in Deepfakes
25th July 2022
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Deepfakes Go High-Res – But Can Deepfakers Handle It?
11th July 2022
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The Future of Autoencoder-Based Deepfakes
11th July 2022
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NeRF: An Eventual Successor for Deepfakes?
27th June 2022
Web-archived version | Hacker News thread (27th June 2022)
Metaphysic Wiki
Overfitting in Machine Learning
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Features in Machine Learning
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What is Neural Compression?
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Weights in Machine Learning
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Generalization in Machine Learning
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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)
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Fine-Tuning in Machine Learning
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What Is the Latent Space of an Image Synthesis System?
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What are Deepfakes?
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Semantic Segmentation
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Loss Functions in Machine Learning
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3D Morphable Models (3DMMs)
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Width.ai (formerly scalr.ai)
Three Unique Architectures For Deep Learning Based Recommendation Systems
A deep dive into three hybrid systems for deep learning recommender frameworks.
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Business Applications For GPT-3
Here are some of the most successful and far-ranging computer vision projects that have achieved commercial success.
Web-archived version
Facial Detection and Recognition With Dlib
A look at the Dlib open source suite
of applications.
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IFlexion/ITransition
I wrote B2B features monthly for over three years for this U.S.-based tech company, which also has a presence from the UK through to eastern Europe and Asia.
(Please note that some of the live versions of these articles have short prefaces written by other people. I don't have any control over this!)
VR in Education: Aims, Use Cases, and Success Stories
A look at the effectiveness of VR applications in education, and at some examples of how new innovations in this sector are affecting conventional educational and training practices, and also inspiring digital-first approaches in this growing sector.
Web-archived version
AI in CRM Systems: Use Cases and Efficacy
Customer Relationship Management systems have begun to notably benefit from RPA-driven machine learning analytics and other AI-based approaches. This article takes a closer look at the current state of AI in CRM.
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Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Use Cases and Implementation Options
Real-time big data solutions offer 'live' views of critical corporate information flows across a number of possible applications, including sales figures, marketing reach, traffic spikes (also invaluable as an adjunct of cybersecurity), the tracking of internal metrics for staff performance, high-speed volatile markets (such as stock trading), the disposition of deployed fleets (ranging from military oversight all the way to ride-sharing services), and fraud detection, besides many other possible uses.
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Predictive Analytics in HR
A look at a few of the central areas where predictive analytics software can prove of growing benefit to human resources operations in an organization, from candidate procurement through to human network and employee churn analysis.
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Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security
A look at some of the key sectors in cyber security, at the extent to which attacks of all types are growing, at the way that AI is increasingly being leveraged to launch devastatingly effective social engineering attacks, at new AI methods that can help bolster systems against more traditional attacks, and at the necessity to adopt a new, proactive mindset in addressing enterprise cyber security.
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Automated Data Collection: Tools, Methods, and Current Efficacy
A look at some of the types of data that can be extracted through automated data collection, and some of the advantages of establishing local workflows to analyze and leverage one's own business intelligence resources.
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Reinforcement Learning Applications: What's Under the Hood?
A look at how RL is rising across sectors, how it works, where it is a viable approach in machine learning consulting, and which use cases it might best be suited for.
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Supervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches
A look at both approaches, where we'll see that the choice of supervised vs unsupervised machine learning solutions may be decided by more than just the state of the data.
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Predictive Analytics Tools and Their Business Applications
Predictive analytics offers companies the ability to foresee future trends and events based on historical data from a number of possible sources, including metadata from communications systems, customer transaction histories, in-house reporting systems, customer demographics and, increasingly, a wide range of possible external or secondary data streams.
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Marketing and Data Science in the Post-Tracking Age
In the wake of FLOC and SKAdNetwork, the marketing world is going to look very different. This article examines the changes that are under way, and what they may mean for the industry.
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Predictive Analytics in Real Estate
The power of AI-driven predictive analytics has much to offer to real estate. Let's see how this sector can get a jump on an uncertain market through AI.
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Computer Vision Projects: 7 Success Stories
Here are some of the most successful and far-ranging computer vision projects that have achieved commercial success.
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AI in the Supply Chain
A look at how machine learning is impacting supply chain management and logistics, and how the relationship might develop in the next few years.
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The Future of AI Regulation
A look at the legislative landscape around AI, examining whether current laws will be sufficient for the algorithmic age.
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AI in Architecture: Is It a Good Match?
This article looks at emerging tools, systems and ideas related to AI in architecture — as well as some of the obstacles to automation.
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The Practical Problems of Explaining AI Black Box Systems
Since the headline-fueled public failures of AI hold back growth and uptake, it's now vital to formulate new approaches to making machine learning explicable to the public and private sector.
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The Emergence of AIoT
A look at new approaches to the challenges that come with inserting the world's most energy-draining technology into lightweight, energy-efficient devices and networks.
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AI in Predictive Maintenance Software
Machine learning offers strategies to cut downtime and extend component life through predictive maintenance forecasting.Here is a look at some of the possible solutions for the accompanying challenges.
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Data Science in Healthcare
Data science now has an unprecedented opportunity to leverage machine learning and transform healthcare. Here's a look at how it can face up to some of its biggest challenges in the post-COVID era.
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R vs Python for Data Science and Visualization
A look at the capabilities of R vs Python in data science applications across a range of essential characteristics.
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Enterprise AI Adoption
A a look at the current indicators that favor an in-house or platform-based approach to enterprise AI development, with an eye to emerging trends.
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The Future of Data Science in the Age of COVID-19
A look at how the wider data science sector might need to reconcile the volatile conditions of 2020 and beyond.
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The Future of Emotion Recognition in Machine Learning
From deepfake detection and autism therapy to driving safety, there are multiple applications of ML-based facial expression recognition. However, the challenges are numerous.
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PyTorch vs Keras
A review and comparison of the two renowned Python frameworks.
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5 Key Challenges in Machine Learning Development
Machine learning model training is no small feat, especially with the key five challenges examined in this post.
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Data Science in Banking and Finance: The Case for AI
The banking and finance sector is taking a cautious yet productive approach to machine learning deployments. Here's a review of the current developments and prerequisites for further AI proliferation.
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The State of Facial Recognition Software
In 2020, facial recognition software is seeing new surprising developments across industries and applications. What are they?
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Apple Core ML: Easily Leverage the Power of Machine Learning
Learn more about Apple’s foray into mobile machine learning framework development, and what capabilities it can bring to your project.
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Facial Recognition Software Pros and Cons in the Privacy Age
Will facial recognition software retain its pros for businesses in the light of its privacy-hindering cons?
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Using Intelligent Video Analytics against the Spread of COVID-19
From social distancing trackers to mask-wearing detection, intelligent video analytics tools offer real-time object recognition in a safe contactless way.
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Entertainment Robots
From the Middle Ages to the early 2020s, this article traces the roots of entertainment robots and looks at the technologies that make them possible.
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How Are Data Scientists Contributing to Social Good Right Now?
Public data science projects might be controversial, but they increasingly do more for society, too.
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Does the Pandemic Reframe Political Data Science and AI in the Public Sector?
Data science was facing a harsh regulatory environment and public skepticism until the coronavirus pandemic. What impact is it likely to have on the public sector AI strategy in the long term?
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10 Machine Learning Frameworks for Your Consideration
A look at the top machine learning frameworks right now, with both their positive and negative sides to be considered for an AI-centric project.
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Machine Learning Overview: Understanding The 'Gold Rush'
After the failures of the 1960s and the 1980s, what is different in this latest iteration of the AI hype cycle; and how can we navigate the AI hype cycle to identify usable real world machine learning technologies?
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HBase vs Cassandra in the Big Data Game
Though HBase and Cassandra are stablemates from the Apache repository, they are effectively rivals for your time and resources. This article compares their capabilities, limitations and areas of similarity.
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Choosing a Python Library for Sentiment Analysis
Constructing an enterprise-focused sentiment analysis system out of the best available frameworks means making some hard choices about the scope, scalability, architecture and ultimate intent of your project. Python offers various libraries in this sector, and this article compares their suitability for various use-cases.
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Hadoop vs Spark
This article examines the validity of the Spark vs Hadoop argument and take a look at those areas of big data analysis in which the two systems oppose and sometimes complement each other.
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Ghost-Writing
I maintain a very full monthly schedule of regular bylined work, but occasionally I undertake ad hoc ghost-writing commissions, around 800-1500 words, in areas with which I am most familiar, such as image synthesis, deepfakes, synthetic data, societal ramifications of AI and machine learning, dataset culture, big data, and other closely-related topics.
Most
of these pieces are thought-leadership articles for CTOs and CEOs, and the C-suite class in general. I am not likely to undertake ghost-written SEO work such as lists, how-tos, etc. - and in any case, such a commission would not be economically viable, since I charge a high premium for re-attributed content of this kind.
Nor am I able to undertake anonymous large-scale projects such as white-papers and e-books, since volume-based commissions of this nature would make my regular work schedule untenable.