machine learning
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This Artificially Intelligent Robot Composes And Performs Its Own Music
Shimon — a four-armed marimba playing robot — has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions.
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Talking Face Paint Tech Shows The Future Of Prisma-Like Apps
If you want to experience the cutting edge in computer-generated graphics, SIGGRAPH is the event. A lot of the technology you see in games and movies today almost certainly debuted years before at a SIGGRAPH conference. This year, we’ll be getting the best virtual mud ever and now researchers are transplanting portraits onto video, creating…
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Robots Have Started Teaching Other Robots New Skills
In an important advance that takes us one step closer to the inevitable robopocalypse, MIT researchers have developed a system that teaches robots how to acquire new skills — and then teach those skills to different types of robots.
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Artificial Intelligence Could Prevent The Next Video Game Animation Disaster
Human character animation has gotten much better over the years, but it’s still one of the most recognisable issues when enjoying video games. Animations are normally a predetermined set of canned motions, and while realistic enough in the right setting, they can totally break the immersive experience when they stray out of bounds. The uncanny…