Facial recognition isn’t the only scary thing bad actors and governments can use computer recognition for. What if an AI could watch a video of us tapping on our touchscreen phones and infer exactly what app we’re using and what we’re typing? Modern computer vision techniques have the ability to imbue us with the kind of technological super powers typically only seen in the movies. We can load video into an AI system and tell it to zoom in on a low-resolution frame and, with a little training and some clever algorithms, we can make it “enhance” the image....

This article is part of our series that explores thebusiness ofartificial intelligence. Like every year, Adobe’s Max 2021 event featured product reveals and other innovations happening at the world’s leading computer graphics software company. Among the most interesting features of the event is Adobe’s continued integration of artificial intelligence into its products, a venue that the company has been exploring in the past few years. Like many other companies, Adobe is leveragingdeep learningto improve its applications and solidify its position in the video and image editing market....

How AI is helping Indian cotton farmers reduce pesticide use Conceptualization and data collection The idea of the AI model was to determine how many pests are seen in that area and send an advisory on pesticide usage. However, there was no prior field data to train the model. So the team had to build a special app to collect data. Farmers already use pheromone traps to catch pests and predict if there might be a larger attack....

How AI weeds the spam out of our inboxes The challenge Spam email comes in different flavors. Many are just annoying messages aiming to draw attention to a cause or spread false information. Some of them arephishing emailswith the intent of luring the recipient into clicking on a malicious link or downloading a malware. The one thing they have in common is that they are irrelevant to the needs of the recipient....

It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the way many businesses function, from the small mom-and-pop shop to worldwide operations. Speaking of the latter, I had the chance to chat with Rick Bergman, AMD’s Executive Vice President of Computing and Graphics, to discuss how the company was able to plan and launch some of its biggest products during a period of unprecedented uncertainty. AMD has been going through something of a renaissance the last few years....