If you think the headline sounds absurd, wait till you learn that this artificially-intelligent art-making robot, named Ai-Da, has, as of June 7, made over $1.2 million in sales of art. Believe it. This is not quite a dystopia future now like the teaser video’s overall ambience may have implied, though. It just makes us […]
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New AI Tech Generates Animated Portraits From A Single Image
First, technology found a way to fake voice of real people, making them say whatever its creator(s) wanted them to say. Then we saw how Deepfakes could fake a person’s action. After that we learned that with AI and machine learning, technology can generate realistic looking people, bring Salvador Dali back to life (granted, this […]
Nike Fit Is Here To Determine The Perfect Fit Nike Shoes For Your Feet
I don’t shop online for shoes because, getting shoes online is like life and life, according to Forrest Gump‘s mum, “is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get.” I prefer hitting up brick and mortar stores to get my feet measured. Even then, Nike thinks that in-store foot […]
First, It Was Just Head Shots And Now The Entire Body Is Not Real Either
Just when we thought artificial intelligence-generated head shots are creepy, a Japanese AI development company, DataGrid, took it to the next level by generating the entire body, complete with movements. Yeah, this is not KFC hunk. These are fake people with the entire body that move like real people too. According to a video posted […]
AI And Face Recognition Lets Dogs Do Their Own Online Shopping
How far would you go to pamper your pet dog? Would you go as far as letting it do its own online shopping if it could? Well, if your answer is yes, then you will be delighted that you can actually do that (let fido does the shopping). But the caveat is, it is only […]
Meet OBSBOT Tail, Your Personal Cameraman And Director
Forget about recruiting a cameraman for whatever professional videos you are going to make because, here’s the world’s AI-powered autonomous director camera is here. Despite the fact that it does not have legs, it can do pretty much everything a cameraman can do. Called OBSBOT Tail Autonomous Director Camera, this iF and reddot design award […]
Google Honors J.S. Bach With First AI-powered Google Doodle
Google search has grown so big that it has a team that specializes in creating temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages to commemorate holidays, events, achievements and notable historical figures. Yes. That thing that most of us wouldn’t have paid attention anyways. It is called Google Doodle. Today’s Doodle is a little special […]
AI Cameras That Spots Potential Shoplifters: Pre-Crime Unit Is Real?
Can a human spot potential shoplifters before the deed is done? Possibly. If given enough training and experience, a person may be able to pick out those who intend to pay for the products and those who don’t. But lets be honest, other than big retail stores, no other retail stores will dedicate staff just […]
China’s Xinhua AI News Anchors Join By A New Female AI Anchor
After becoming the first in the world to ‘employ’ not one, but two artificial intelligence (AI) news anchors, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua has announced that a female AI new anchor will be joining the duo of AI news anchors. As before, this world’s first female artificial intelligence news anchor is developed in collaboration with […]
Believe It Or Not, These ‘People’ You See Here Are Generated By AI
If you have not heard, we are now living in a world where what-you-see-may-not-be-what-you-get (WYSMNBWYG). Case-in-point: the photo you see here. The people you see in the above image are not real people. I repeat. They are NOT real people. They were generated by artificial intelligence, or in technical terms, generated by a Style-based Generator […]