You can haveCitizen KaneandThe Godfather. Keep your 3D films and IMAX experiences. Miss me with epics, sequels, and experimental cinema. The onlyrealfilm-based art form is movie trailers. When you go to a theater there’s no guarantee you’re not about to sit through a 90-minute stinker. That’s the chance we all take when we fork over $25 bucks to see this year’s blockbuster sequel. But, for my money, it’s always worth it as long as I get there early enough to enjoy the previews....

Researchers from the University of California San Diego recently built a machine learning system that predicts what a bird’s about to sing as they’re singing it. The big idea here is real-time speech synthesis for vocal prosthesis. But the implications could go much further. Up front:Birdsong is a complex form of communication that involves rhythm, pitch, and, most importantly, learned behaviors. According to the researchers, teaching an AI to understand these songs is a valuable step in training systems that can replace biological human vocalizations:...

Researchers developed new life expectancy calculator — you’ll die Tuesday, jk just look it up Life expectancy vs lifespan Simply put, life expectancy is how long, on average, members of any given population can expect to life. This is different from lifespan, which is the maximum length of time any member of thespecies can survive. Although lifespan has changed very little – if at all – global life expectancy has soared bymore than 40 yearssince the beginning of the 20th century....

A trio of researchers at Purdue today published pre-print research demonstrating a novel adversarial attack against computer vision systems that can make an AI see – or not see – whatever the attacker wants. It’s something that could potentially affect self-driving vehicles, such as Tesla’s, that rely on cameras to navigate and identify objects. Up front:The researchers wanted to confront the problem of digital manipulation in the physical world. It’s easy enough to hack a computer or fool an AI if you have physical access to it, but tricking a closed system is much harder....

Did you knowNeural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! There’s growing concern about new security threats that arise from machine learning models becoming an important component of many critical applications. At the top of the list of threats areadversarial attacks, data samples that have been inconspicuously modified to manipulate the behavior of the targeted machine learning model....