Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Ballie Is A Rolling Robot That Wants To Be Your Life Companion, But It ain’t No BB-8

We may not have a BB-8 here on Earth, but there’s Samsung Ballie. In many ways, Ballie is similar to BB-8. For starter, it rolls like BB-8 and it is also a life companion to you. But those are where the similarities stop.

Meet NEON, An AI-driven Avatar That Wants To Be A Friend

This is NEON, an AI-driven avatar born out of Samsung’s Star Labs and it is as ambitious as it is ambiguous. Ambitious as in what Star Labs is trying to do is to create an artificial human that behaves like real human and has the ability to interact with real humans, show emotions and demonstrate […]

Here Are Some Handy Tech Tips For Entrepreneurs

Technology plays a huge role in modern-day life and there have been many incredible advances made in recent times. As an entrepreneur, it is important that you are aware of ways in which you can use tech to improve both your business and your daily performance.

Caper Smart Shopping Cart Is Essentially A Push-along Self-checkout

While some companies opt to bring the supermarket to you and some even went to the extend of eliminating the entire checkout process with a grocery store designed from the ground up, retail technology company Caper, Inc. improves on the current system with tech.

Ultra-realistic Humanoid AI Robot Artist Held Its First Solo Exhibition

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 […]

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 […]