AI has helped recreate an artwork that had been hidden under a Pablo Picasso painting for nearly 120 years. The mysterious landscape lurks beneath the visible surface of Picasso’sLa Miséreuse Accroupie(The Crouching Beggar), a portrayal of a destitute woman. In 2018, researchers used an X-ray fluorescence imagining instrument toreveal a faint imageof the covered scene. Art historians suspect it’s a painting of a park near Barcelona by Santiago Rusiñol, a friend of Picasso’s and leader of the Catalan modernism movement....

This article is part of ourreviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have blessed our planet with a wide variety of lifeforms, each intelligent in its own fashion. Each species has evolved to develop innate skills, learning capacities, and a physical form that ensure its survival in its environment. But despite being inspired by nature and evolution, the field of artificial intelligence has largely focused on creating the elements of intelligence separately and fusing them together after development....

AI models need to be ‘interpretable’ rather than just ‘explainable’ Two types of black-box AI Likemany things involving artificial intelligence, there’s a bit of confusion surrounding the black-box problem. Rudin differentiates between two types of black-box AI systems: functions that are too complicated for any human to comprehend, and functions that are proprietary. The first kind of black-box AI includesdeep neural networks, the architecture used in deep learning algorithms. DNNs are composed of layers upon layers of interconnected variables that become tuned as the network is trained on numerous examples....

Welcome toAI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence. What is intelligence? Is it the capacity to solve complicated mathematical problems at very fast speeds? The power to beat world champions in chess and go? The ability to detect thousands of different objects in images? Predict the next word in a sentence? Those are all manifestations of intelligence. And thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, we have been able to replicate them in computers, to different degrees of success....

An algorithm hasestimated that Manchester City starlet Phil Foden is the most valuable player in Europe’s “big five” football leagues. The CIES Football Observatory’s model predicted that the 21-year-old is worth a whopping €190.2M ($231.9M) in the transfer market. Foden’s England teammates Mason Greenwood (€178M)and Marcus Rashford (€159M)complete the podium, while Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland (€155.5M) takes fourth place in the biannual list. Revealed ❗️@CIES_Footballbi-annual list of top estimated transfer values for players in the big-5⃣ ?...