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Australian artists accuse popular AI imaging app of stealing content, call for stricter copyright laws

Australian artists say Lensa, the app that uses artificial intelligence to generate self-portraits, is stealing their content and are calling for stricter copyright laws that keep up with AI-generated art.

But the parent company behind the app has defended its use of images, saying Lensa learns to create portraits just as a human would – by learning different artistic styles.

Future flying robots could be inspired by the aerodynamics of gliding snakes

A hidden mechanism for achieving glides of hundreds of feet is revealed by computational modelling.

Scientists are currently thinking of ways to create robots resembling the gliding motion of flying snakes, according to a study published today (Dec .13) in Physics of Fluids.

‘Undulations’ encourage lift.


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The researchers anticipate their findings will improve our comprehension of gliding motion and result in a more effective design for future airborne snake robots.

First-Ever AI Video Platform Integrating Text-Generated Image And Animation

Tel Aviv-based D-ID released today the first multimodal generative AI video platform to combine text, image and animation in one interface. The self-service video platform integrates D-ID’s proprietary generative AI technology with GPT-3 from Open AI and Stable Diffusion from Stability AI, allowing users to generate digital composite faces and speech in 119 languages based on their text prompts.

“This is a game changer for creators,” says Gil Perry, D-ID co-founder and CEO. “It’s the bleeding edge of generative AI,” he asserts, touting the startup’s expertise in deep learning and computer vision. When I talked to Perry last year, he said that the company’s long-term vision is “to lead the next disruption in the video entertainment space by creating AI-generated synthetic media in a responsible way.”

In the rapidly evolving generative AI space, “long-term” means “next year,” so now Perry talks about providing “digital humans” to enterprises, “transforming the way we communicate with machines and elevating our capabilities as humans.” He hopes that sometime next year, we could chat with the digital humans we will create with D-ID’s help.

The Truth About AI Getting “Creative”

Let’s talk about AI Art, Lensa, ChatGPT, and why it’s all deeper than you think.

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Japanese mission heads to the Moon

Ispace Inc. is a private Japanese company developing robotic landers and rovers for missions to the Moon. It aims to compete for both transportation and exploration mission contracts from space agencies and private industry. If successful, these spacecraft and the accompanying vehicles could enable clients to discover, map, and use the natural resources on Earth’s nearest neighbour.

In addition to its headquarters in Tokyo, the company has offices in the United States and Luxembourg, employing around 200 people. Although founded in 2010, its team of engineers had earlier competed in the Google Lunar X Prize.

Following more than a decade of research and development, ispace yesterday launched Hakuto-R Mission 1 – delivered into space on a partially reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. The spacecraft will now perform orbital manoeuvres, taking it as far as 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) from Earth, before arriving at the Moon sometime in April 2023.

Latest AI Research From Intel Explains an Alternative Approach to Train Deep Learning Models for Fast-Paced Real World Use Cases, Across a Variety of Industries

Object detection means all the techniques and means for detecting, identifying, and classifying objects in an image. Recently, the field of artificial intelligence has seen many advances thanks to deep learning and image processing. It is now possible to recognize images or even find objects inside an image. With deep learning, object detection has become very popular with several families of models (R-CNN, YOLO, etc.). However, most of the existing methods in the literature adapt to the training database and fail to generalize when faced with images belonging to different domains.

Although most architectures are optimized for well-known benchmarks, significant results have been achieved using CNNs for tasks particular to a certain domain. However, these domain-specific solutions are often well-tuned for a specific target dataset, starting with carefully chosen architecture and training techniques. This method of training models has the drawback of unnecessarily adapting the approaches to a particular dataset. To address this issue, a research team from Intel offers a different strategy that also serves as the foundation of the Intel® Geti™ platform: a dataset-agnostic template for object detection training made up of carefully selected and pre-trained models and a reliable training pipeline for additional training.

The authors experimented with architectures in three categories: lightweight, extremely accurate, and medium, to develop a scope of the models used for the various object detection datasets regardless of complexity and object size. Pretrained weights are employed to reach model convergence quickly and begin with high accuracy. In addition, a data augmentation operation is performed to augment images with a random crop, horizontal flip, and brightness and color distortions. Multiscale training was applied for medium and accurate models to make them more robust. Additionally, to strike a balance between accuracy and complexity, the authors empirically selected particular resolutions for each model after conducting several trials. Early stopping and the adaptive ReduceOnPlateau scheduler are also used to end training if a few epochs of training do not further improve the outcome.

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