OpenAI OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact. We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible. The outcome of this venture is uncertain and the work is difficult, but we believe the goal and the structure are right. Background Artificial intelligence has always been a surprising field. The past few years have held another flavor of surprise. This approach has yielded outstanding results on pattern recognition problems, such as recognizing objects in images, machine translation, and speech recognition. Looking forward AI systems today have impressive but narrow capabilities. OpenAI
Free Art Tool Released Thanks to Epic Friday At Epic, we have a fun monthly tradition known as Epic Friday, which gives employees a break from ongoing tasks and provides a platform for us to work on pet projects. One day each month, we’re encouraged to be creative and productive solely within the context of “making cool stuff” that benefits our games and technology development process. Epic Games Senior Environment Artist Warren Marshall recently set out to refine his manual drawing skills. While Warren is both highly technical and artistic, he felt the need to revisit the basics and learn more about perspective. “Gotta grind those fundamentals,” he said. Voicing how making perspective grids by hand can be frustrating, he continued, “The programmer in me wanted to do something cooler. Warren describes the app he developed, Carapace, as “a simple program that lets you place vanishing points around an image placeholder to flesh out the shell of your drawing. Here’s a video of Warren setting up a simple three-point grid: Share:
Sidewalk Labs baidu-research/warp-ctc Psykopaint Magic Leap untitled Olli, a 3D printed, self-driving minibus, to hit the road in US A new maker of self-driving vehicles burst onto the scene Thursday in partnership with IBM's supercomputer platform Watson, and it's ready to roll right now. The vehicle—a 3D-printed minibus called "Olli" capable of carrying 12 people—was unveiled by Arizona-based startup Local Motors outside the US capital city Washington. Olli was designed as an on-demand transportation solution that passengers can summon with a mobile app, like Uber rides. And it can be "printed" to specification in "micro factories" in a matter of hours. Olli will be demonstrated in National Harbor, Maryland, over the next few months with additional trials expected in Las Vegas and Miami. Even though Google and several automakers see several years of testing before deploying autonomous cars, Local Motors co-founder and chief executive John Rogers said this vehicle is ready to go into service as soon as regulations allow it. "Local Motors is about selling (the vehicles) into the markets that are ready now," he said.
Project Malmo - Microsoft Research How can we develop artificial intelligence that learns to make sense of complex environments? That learns from others, including humans, how to interact with the world? That learns transferable skills throughout its existence, and applies them to solve new, challenging problems? Project Malmo sets out to address these core research challenges, addressing them by integrating (deep) reinforcement learning, cognitive science, and many ideas from artificial intelligence. The Malmo platform is a sophisticated AI experimentation platform built on top of Minecraft, and designed to support fundamental research in artificial intelligence. The Project Malmo platform consists of a mod for the Java version, and code that helps artificial intelligence agents sense and act within the Minecraft environment. Minecraft is ideal for artificial intelligence research for the same reason it is addictively appealing to the millions of fans who enter its virtual world every day.
Sgnl - Make Phone Calls with Your Fingertip by Innomdle Lab 中文(繁體) | 中文(简体) | 한국어 | ภาษาไทย | 日本語 Sgnl is the smart strap that enables you to answer phone calls through your fingertip. Simply place your fingertip to your ear while speak through the embedded microphone. Replace your existing watch strap with Sgnl and you’re done, whether you wear a classic watch or an Apple Watch, Samsung Gear, or Pebble Time. There's no one who never lost their earphone in their lifetime. Hear your caller’s voice simply by placing your fingertip on your ear as you speak through a microphone embedded in the Sgnl strap. Sgnl receives voice signal from your phone through Bluetooth. The Blue graph represents the original sound signal, as inputted and the Magenta graph represents sound signals when received through the tip of the fingertip. However, when this 2000Hz threshold is exceeded, the disparity between the sound signals begins to grow. Hear the Evolution of Sgnl: A comparative sound quality test January 2016 (featured at CES) May 2016 July 2016 (featured at IFA)
Vue: Your Everyday Smart Glasses by Vue Or swipe to cycle through songs Your frames function the way you want them to. Use the app to pair gestures with custom actions tied to your phone, like hearing the current time, weather, activity summary, and more. Vue ensures you’re safe whether you’re a pedestrian, cyclist or driver. When was the last time you stuck a USB into your glasses to charge it? Vue turns on automatically only when you put them on, and enters low power mode when you take them off, enabling your glasses to conserve more power. The launch of Vue is just the beginning. Some of our early experimental features: Nod to answer a callTilt your head to cycle songsShake your head to ignore a callDetect your sitting and standing postureAnd many more Vue comes in two styles of frames, classic and trendy. Vue comes in a choice of three colors: black, brown or white. Vue’s temple piece (sides of the frames) comes in the following styles: Prescription Lenses Sunglasses Audio Activity Tracking Mobile App
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