OpenAI’s latest piece of mind-boggling deep learning wizardry, DALL-E (Dali meets WALL-E, geddit?), is able to create illustrations, photos, renders or any other visual you care to mention just from a description that you provide. For more detail about DALL-E, try this very readable description from Dale Markowitz on The Next Web. GPT-3, for those […]
Machine learning research is an expensive and energy-hungry business. Training a machine learning model can generate carbon emissions equivalent to building and driving five cars over their lifetimes. But why? Artificial neural networks learn by adjusting weights of parameters and connections until an output matches an answer; for example, an algorithm can play a game […]
In “a significant step forward in the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms” that “are able to deal with the messiness and complexity of the real world”, Google DeepMind‘s new reinforcement learning algorithm, MuZero, which like its predecessor AlphaGo uses lookahead search, can achieve superhuman levels of prowess at Go, chess and video games without any prior […]
In an article for Forbes about the march of AI, machine learning and the technology that underpins both, author Stephen McBride refers to NVIDIA as “America’s most important company”. But why? Speed is key to training machine learning models cost effectively, and CPUs process slowly, so GPUs made by NVIDIA and companies like it are […]
Google’s Blob Opera machine learning experiment is the work of David Li and Google’s Arts and Culture team. A four-choir of coloured blobs puts on operatic performances, while an interactive UI allows you to stretch and squeeze an individual blob to alter its pitch and drag it around to create different vowel sounds. No actual […]
NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face simplifies animation of a 3D character to match any voice-over track, and can be used in real time or within traditional character creation workflows. The Open Beta version will be available soon.