FocusAI - Edition #44
#Robots #Compression #EthicalAI #SmartGlasses
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Edition #44 - March 5th, 2021
This week: robots, compression ethical AI, chemistry…
🧻 Robots can almost fold towels now
Berkeley researchers have built a system that can fold a range of fabrics more accurately than before.
🖼️ High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression
A research team from ETH Zurich and Google introduced HiFiC short for High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression at NeurIPS last year.
They use generative adversarial networks to create a state of the art lossy image compression system with astonishing results as seen below.
💬 Speech to text
Facebook AI's powerful wav2vec2 is state of the art speech-to-text transcription.
It was recently added to the Huggingface Transformers library.
👵 Deep Nostalgia
Animate the faces in your family photos.
⚗️ Clean chemistry literature
Join this Kaggle competition and help chemists expand access to collective chemical research.
👩 New Ethical AI Team in Google
In Google, Marian Croak will lead a new center of expertise in responsible AI.
The move came amid uproar over the exits of her predecessors Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell.
👓 Smart glasses with face recognition
Facebook is considering facial recognition for its upcoming smart glasses
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