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Elon Musk Finally Unveils His Plans for Neuralink
Elon Musk has taken the covers off publicly for the first time regarding his secretive company ‘Neuralink’. On Tuesday night, Musk went on stage to rephrase his original pitch, but now with a whitepaper providing more details. Thus making his ideas sound a lot less like science fiction this time,…
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Hexen Just Got a Fantastic AI Texture Enhancement
Hexen It seems that literally every day now, a new AI enhanced texture pack is released. It’s one of the biggest revelations in the modding community. What used to take an age to do, can now be done in weeks and on a much larger scale. Modder “gmh4598” used an…
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Aeolus Shows Off Beer-Fetching, Housekeeping Robot at CES 2018
More and more automated devices are shown at CES every year. This time, Aeolus Robotics was present to show off their latest machine which takes a page right out of “The Jetsons”. It is a compact robot for housekeeping duties. That includes vacuuming, moving furniture and can even retrieve a…
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Mario Kart Successfully Played by a Neural Network
Mariflow Neural Network Plays Mario Kart As a kid, Mario Kart was one of my favourite games. I literally must have spent hundreds of hours playing it. As such, I got to be rather good at it. It was a simpler time, without the perils of the blue shells of…
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Intel Announce ‘Lake Crest’ Neural Network Processor to be Released Before the End of Year
Neural network technology on the horizon Intel is clearly a company that is very good at what they do. Despite AMD’s Ryzen and Threadripper ranged being very impressive, Intel still holds the top end processor title. Amazingly on top of this Intel has now revealed that they expect to have…
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Neural Network Writes New Game of Thrones Novel
While we tap our fingers, waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish the next novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, one ambitious fan is taking matters into his own hands. Martin’s The Winds of Winter – the sixth novel in the series that inspired HBO’s Game of…
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Neural Network Creates Incredible Game Character Animations
We’ve seen wondrous advancements in video game animations – and associated technologies – over the last decade, but, as fidelity increases, it becomes increasingly glaring when movements feel ‘off’; we have the Uncanny Valley to thank for that. By now, most of us will have seen some of the hilariously…
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Google AIs Create Their Own Encryption
Research by Google’s deep learning project has revealed that its artificial intelligence systems are capable of creating their own bespoke encryptions to share private messages. Google Brain researchers Martin Abadi and David Anderson created a trio of neural networks – Alice, Bob, and Eve – two of which were able…
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Blade Runner Gets Trippy When Auto-Encoded by an AI
A trippy recreation of 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner – rendered from a simple set of digital data by an auto-encoding computer system – was so eerily close to the original that the resulting Vimeo video was hit by a DMCA takedown notice from Warner Bros. So, How do Androids…
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What Happens When a Neural Net Colourizes Images?
We’ve already seen what happens to images when neural networks attempt to process them with Google’s DeepDream providing results varying from weird to nightmarish. This time, a neural network has been let loose with a far less potential for horror, the task? To colourize a number of black and white…
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Google Files Patents for Artificial Intelligence
Google has filed six patents for artificial intelligence and neural networks, it has been revealed. It’s the first time that the tech giant has attempted to protect its AI research, some of which could be spurious, while as a whole could be seriously detrimental to any future AI research and…
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