After having announced the opening of their FAIR lab in Paris and having launched various AI-based solutions recently (including app Moment), Facebook continues to make the news this week with computer-generated photos looking real and "poselets" to enhance person recognition. Great to see this level of innovation!
David
In the News
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From natural photos to computer-generated ones
Facebook's AI robot can generate images that look real to humans 40% of the time
Can we design trust between Humans and Artificial Intelligence?
The successful adaptation of AI requires empathy on the part of both people and computers
DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain
In-depth article on Deepmind and founder Demis Hassabis. From the early days to the Google days.
Working with AI
A guide to working with artificial intelligence: your staff don’t trust algorithms, but they’d never ‘hurt’ a robot baby dinosaur
Also in the news this week...
- DigitalGenius raises $3M to help companies strengthen their customer support teams with AI
- Criteo releases the biggest ever dataset for machine learning
- Amazon announces an improved Machine Learning system for its user rating and review solutions
- Japanese customers have quickly snatched up the 1000 first Pepper robots on sale
- Ariel Procaccia won the Computers and Thought award, for his contributions to the fields of computational social choice and computational economics
Learning
![What's a poselet and why it matters to Facebook's facial recognition accuracy](https://dxj7eshgz03ln.cloudfront.net/production/link/image/52117/original_ratio_extra_large_0f580a3c-9e5d-4625-9c42-ee30d203e39d.png)
What's a poselet and why it matters to Facebook's facial recognition accuracy
Facebook artificial intelligence researchers and Berkeley's Ning Zhang have found a way to improve facial recognition algorithms by largely looking at everything but your face.
![Free ebook - Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks](https://dxj7eshgz03ln.cloudfront.net/production/link/image/43447/original_ratio_extra_large_8973350a-d541-4fae-aed4-aa618830af23.jpg)
Free ebook - Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Information theory and inference, often taught separately, are here united in one entertaining textbook, along with numerous practical applications.
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Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
Deep convolutional networks are great at telling the difference between various types of objects and animals. But how do they react to tricky photos?
Brains & Neurons
Getting Smarter
Interesting thoughts by Geoffrey Hinton on the nature of consciousness, where he tells us that we are not conscious after all and that “consciousness is a pre-scientific term". Interesting read.
Some thoughts
![Exploring Game Space](https://dxj7eshgz03ln.cloudfront.net/production/link/image/52118/original_ratio_extra_large_89d5af3f-fe00-4035-83d7-a9c4e1c960b9.png)
Exploring Game Space
Helping designers explore game space and better understand the relationship between design and player experience.
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Data Mining reveals the surprising factors behind successful movies
The secret to making profitable movies will amaze you. (Spoiler: it’s not hiring top box office stars.)