FocusAI - Edition #45
#Drone #Kaggle #SpeechCompression #Maif #AIEthics
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Edition #45 - March 12th, 2021
This week: speech compression, WiFi instead of GPS, body-swap, drone for defense…
💬 Combining speech compression expertise
Google has made Lyra, a more efficient speech codec. Lyra wraps in some recent ML advancements. It works by extracting features from input speech, quantizing that, then using a generative model to take these features and reinflate them into output speech.
🏡 Where am I?
Use WiFi signals strength and machine learning to predict where you are in your home.
💣 AI developer: I'm afraid of what happens if my code gets released
"I realized that AI-body-swap is a bomb. A bomb in both senses – as a technological breakthrough and as something dangerous if its code gets into the wrong hands"
🛩️ Drone for Defense
The new wave of AI-powered drones is designed for martial missions like reconnaissance and search and rescue.
🙅🏿♀️ AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship
ACM’s FAccT conference has paused its sponsorship by Google, following the turmoil and departures at the company’s Ethical AI team.
🛍️ Product Matching
In this Kaggle competition, you’ll build a model that predicts if two items are the same or different products.
🇫🇷 French Touch
👼 Nouvel outil open-source de la Maif
Avec Shapash, la Maif veut rendre les modèles d'IA compréhensibles.
#Drone #Kaggle #SpeechCompression #Maif #AIEthics
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