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Human-AI relationship: Delights don’t need to have violent ends
An investigation into the different cultural attitudes in the West and in Japan about AI and robotsThis blog post is also featured in the fourth issue of Embodied AI. Make sure to subscribe to the...
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5 Lessons from Clippy’s Failure
5 Lessons from Microsoft’s ClippyWhat the rising AI avatar industry can learn from the brief career of a Microsoft Office assistantThis blog post is featured in the fifth issue of Embodied AI, the...
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You lookin’ at me, Alexa? Welcome to the next generation of AI assistants
“You lookin’ at me, Alexa?”Eyes will give the next AI assistants the power to make emotional connections with usYou know the scene. Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle stares intensely at himself in the...
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Deepfake: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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5 Ways to Design an AI Assistant that isn’t Socially Awkward
Voice assistants, while intelligent, helpful and fast, demonstrate socially awkward behavior: they have to be told when they can enter a conversation, they cannot perceive non-verbal cues and they are...
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(Video) Millie Fit: Your On-Demand AI Trainer
Technology is transforming both the fitness industry and how people exercise. Premium gyms and boutiques are quickly giving way to digitally-powered, connected workouts that offer people both sweat and...
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5 Reasons Bodyweight Training is the Best Workout for Busy People
There’s a new gym opening up, and you have a free lifetime membership. This gym is always open and follows you wherever you go. This gym will save you countless hours, working your whole body in the...
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Brains Over Beauty, or Building AI Avatars Inside Out
Illustrated by Anny (Luniapilot)There have been a lot of exciting events and developments in the realm of AI and virtual beings since fall 2019:The Virtual Beings Summit hosted by our friends at Fable...
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Towards Situated Visual AI via End-to-End Learning on Video Clips
We are excited to announce the public release of Sense.Sense is an open source inference engine for neural network architectures that takes an RGB video stream as input and transform it into a...
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Putting the skeleton back in the closet
Does action recognition need pose estimation?Pose estimation models have become a commodity and are notably appealing for the visual overlay they can provide; you simply take an image of a person, pass...
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