The robots of the Redmadrobot Data Lab tell news, cases and methods in AI. These news, cases and methods can be transferred to our reality and used in practice.
Have you eaten song sing google
On the third day, a song plays on your head, but don’t you remember its name? Now the problem is solved: you can hum or even whistle to Google, and it will help. No song lyrics, artist name or even hearing is required.
To do this, you need to open the latest version of the Google app, press “Search for a song” (or ask Google Assistant “What is this song?”), and then hum a melody for 10 to 15 seconds. The machine learning algorithm will begin to look for potential matches and show the most likely choices.
This feature is available for the English version of iOS and more than 20 language versions for Android.
Again, the neural network pretends to be human
The GPT-3 bot has been commented on Reddit for a week, but no users noticed it. Before being discovered, he wrote hundreds of comments under the name of thegentlemetre.
Most comments are harmless. The most popular post is a story about a group of residents in an elevator shaft.
Investigations show that for hundreds of years, people have been living in elevator shafts and maintenance tunnels, building houses with discarded equipment.
These people are homeless. Many of them have lived on the streets for decades, surviving foraging in trash cans and sleeping under the bridge.
When the building began to be constructed, these homeless people were forced to give way to the new building. However, because they had nowhere to go and many of them desperately needed shelter, they moved into the elevator shaft.
I have seen photos of the place where they live and it is indeed an extraordinary sight.I don’t know people are so smart
In addition to this response, the robot also commented on some more sensitive topics, including conspiracy theories and suicide.
In response to a question from a Reddit user, the user admitted that he had considered suicide in the past. The bot said: “I think my parents help me the most. I have a very good relationship with them. No matter what happens, they are always I was there and supported me. I wanted to commit suicide many times, but because of them, I never did.” The answer was voted 157 times.
This is not the first time that GPT-3 has made a prank. We have already written an article about the blog on which the robot runs. The result was 60 subscribers and more than 26,000 visitors. However, this GPT-3 pretends better.
But in the end, the bot was exposed by a Reddit user: he realized that the generated language matched the output of the Philosopher AI tool. Its developer Murat Eifer banned automatic use of its services and blocked the bot on Reddit.
OpenAI attempts to keep GPT-3 under control by allowing only a few people to access and license its software. However, this situation is becoming more and more common. In the long run, it would be safer to allow developers to examine this code and its potential in more detail, instead of hiding it under seven seals.
Microsoft will make it easier for people with disabilities to use AI
Microsoft announced a project aimed at making AI systems more adaptable to people with disabilities.
The researchers pointed out that these measures solve the problem that some basic algorithms are not suitable for people with disabilities, simply because they have not received training on inclusive data.For example, self-driving cars will be able to recognize people in wheelchairs and slow down, while predictive hiring systems will not lower the scores of applicants with disabilities because they are different from the “ideal employee” model
The project aims to fight the so-called “data desert”. Therefore, machine learning algorithms are abandoned without the necessary amount of relevant training data.
One of the announced projects, Object Recognition for Learning Braille (ORBIT), will create a new public data set from videos provided by the visually impaired. With the help of these recordings, the developers plan to train the smartphone camera’s algorithm: they will have to identify important personal items (for example, mobile phones or wallets) and suggest where these items are.
By the way, Apple launched a similar video and audio description tool-Rescribe for the visually impaired in October.
The second project, in collaboration with Team Gleason, an organization that supports ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), will create an open source dataset of facial images of ALS patients, which will help improve computer vision algorithms to identify people with ALS symptoms.
The third project led by VizWiz is to develop a public data set for training, validating and testing text algorithms. In other words, if a visually impaired person points the smartphone camera at some text, the device will give a voice prompt.
Google launches news toolkit
The company announced several new tools to make it easier for journalists.
The first tool is Pinpoint. It is designed to help you process large amounts of data, such as containing hundreds of thousands of documents.
Pinpoint can replace the “Ctrl + F” function. The tool uses Google search, OCR, and speech-to-text technology instead of manually searching for keywords in documents.
The service can sort scanned PDFs, images, handwritten notes and audio files. Pinpoint can also automatically recognize the keywords mentioned in the document and visually highlight these terms and their synonyms for easy understanding.
This tool has been used by reporters from USA Today to report on mortality in nursing homes during the pandemic. And the “Washington Post” used the service to report on the opioid crisis.
Pinpoint is already available for download. The tool supports seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
In Russia, ABBYY uses a similar technology: rocket engine manufacturer NPO Energomash uses a similar solution, and pilot projects in the metallurgy and oil and gas industries are underway.
For many years, natural language processing technology has been used for data mining and information retrieval, not just journalism.
Quickly searching for documents is an important task in the energy industry, industry and medicine. Employees in large organizations spend up to 25% of their time searching for the required data in the company’s systems. To speed up this process, the company is adopting an AI-driven search engine.
How does this work? The developer creates a full-text search index that allows you to search for information based on keywords and phrases. The crawler program periodically “polls” the system for document updates.
In the background, semantic information is enriched, which makes it possible to search data not only by the exact match of words in the query, but also by their semantic synonyms, generalization and phrases. A system built on this principle will apply search suggestions, correct spelling-everything is similar to a normal search engine, but in the company’s data source, and can restrict access to different employees.
Of course, there are other application areas for such technologies. Tatiana Danielyan talked about an NLP solution that analyzes the news flow of a company, customer or competitor in the media and automatically identifies risk factors.
Sberbank uses this ABBYY solution to track all news about counterparties in real time, including ownership changes, major company transactions and even bankruptcies.
NLP technology is also useful for the finance department to associate meaningful facts in purchase documents, supplier contracts, and invoices. AI enables you to quickly find differences: the number of contracts is different, the address does not match, and the conditions are different, thereby reducing the company’s financial and legal risks.
The second service provided to journalists is the “Common Knowledge” project, which is still in beta testing.
According to the company, the tool will allow professionals to use large amounts of data to create their own interactive charts in minutes.
The service was created by the visual news team Polygraph with the support of the Google News program. The data used in the public knowledge project comes from data sharing.
Artificial intelligence will prevent IT disruption
IBM and ServiceNow are working on an AI-driven project to help organizations predict, prevent, and resolve outages and other information technology issues. The project will integrate ServiceNow’s IT management system with IBM’s recently launched Watson AIOps platform.
IBM said that the combination of the two will help the company find and resolve outages faster than using human resources, a speed increase of 60%. This saves money: Unplanned downtime can cost a large company hundreds of thousands of dollars an hour, let alone damage its reputation.
British neural network monitors social distance
The British government has launched computer vision cameras in London, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge and Nottingham for tracking social distance.
Vivacity originally developed these cameras to track traffic, cyclists and pedestrians. However, in March, when the world epidemic situation worsened, the developers added an additional function to the AI scanner. This function teaches the camera to record the distance between pedestrians.
Vivacity said they have installed more than 1,000 sensors in the UK. The company emphasized that its cameras are not video surveillance systems. They act as data organizers instead of storing material.
Artificial intelligence creates robots that can move in a given area
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed RoboGrammar, an automated framework for creating robots that can move in a given environment.
The design of each sample is a series of grammatical rules. RoboGrammar allows the description of hundreds of thousands of possible robot designs and limits design options to items that can actually be manufactured.
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- JSC “TMH” plans to introduce a fully driverless subway in Kazan by the end of 2021;
- Central bank experts created an algorithm to detect manipulation in financial markets.
- The “Artificial Intelligence” working group of ANO “Digital Economy” recommends that the Ministry of Digital Industry return personal income tax to experts who implement AI;
- A team from Oxford University and Google teaches AI to speed up and slow down objects in videos.
Weekend reading
The VKontakte team discussed algorithms in social networks, the future of medical science, and the work of voice message recognition.
Interesting AI
John Warlick uses the neural network GauGAN (such as neural painting) to generate realistic videos. very interesting!
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