How to use NVIDIA GauGAN web demo app.

It even knows when to add reflections in the water or remove leaves from trees.

Amazing site uses AI to turn your scribbles into lovely landscapes

Happy Little Trees

NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.

Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes

Ready to channel your inner Bob Ross? Check out this site.

"...people haven’t had time to assimilate a new understanding of what is being done."

AI-aided video surveillance will watch and silently judge us

Eyes Up

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.

AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

AI may make video surveillance even more frightening.

"The idea of a magic universal 'undo' button to revert image edits is still far from reality."

Adobe built an AI to spot Photoshopped faces

Undo Button

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

"We live in a world where it's becoming harder to trust the digital information we consume."

Billionaire: future music will be AI-generated to match our moods

DJ Roomba

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.

Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

The future of music might be customized personal soundtracks.

It strips police reports of anything that alludes to a suspect's race.

San Francisco is using AI to try to make courts less racist

San Fran Plan

San Francisco hopes an AI-powered tool that redacts information from police reports will eliminate racial bias from the suspect-charging process.

San Francisco Is Using AI to Try to Make Courts Less Racist

"That will help make our system of justice more fair and just."

EVDodge: Embodied AI for High-Speed Dodging on a quadrotor using event cameras

Watch this drone expertly dodge stuff thrown at it

Too Slow

Drones can now dodge objects thrown at them thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and event cameras, an advanced type of sensor.

Watch This Drone Expertly Dodge Stuff Thrown at It

It avoids hurled balls, toys, and even another drone.

A member of Google's disbanded AI ethics board speaks out about the massive tech company.

Professor: Lawmakers must treat Google like a “world power”

Big Business

A member of the quickly disbanded Google AI ethics board says lawmakers need to approach regulating the company like it's a "world power."

Professor: Lawmakers Must Treat Google Like A “World Power”

"There is no one government that is in charge of all the countries where Google has impact."

"In practice, we don't usually get any further than a sort of reference face, such as 'a European male.' That's not much use to a forensic investigator."

Terrifying AI matches DNA to facial recognition databases

Guess Who

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to a specific face from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.

Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

It's a powerful new crimefighting tool, but a terrifying way to subvert privacy.

It's full of fake news about Taylor Swift, Trump imposing tariffs, and Sprint selling customers' private information to Russia.

New subreddit celebrates bizarre fake news written by AI

Upvoting Propaganda

A brand-new subreddit called "newsbyAI" is full of fake news articles written by artificial intelligence systems that imitate the real thing.

New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

People are sharing AI-written fake news about celebrities and politics.

Detecting audio deepfakes just got more difficult.

Alarming AI clones both a person’s voice and their speech patterns

Sound Bytes

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.

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