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How A Programmer Kept Talking To Her Friend After His Death Using AI

Short Bytes: When the best friend of Eugenia Kuyda–a Russian programmer and entrepreneur–died, she resurrected his digital consciousness using artificial intelligence. She used the creation of her AI startup Luka and fed all the digital conversations of Roman into a neural network. The result is an AI-powered posthumous chatbot. “I want to repeat that I’m very grateful that […]

Prisma App Now Available for Android; Download Now

Prisma photo editing and effects app is now available on Android OS for free — Enjoy ”Prisming” yourself 😉 The world renowned Prisma photo editing app which was previously released for iOS users is now publicly available for Android users which ends the war between users where Android users cursed iPhone users for nonavailability of […]

How MIT Is Teaching AI To Detect Cyberattacks And Defeat Hackers With 86% Accuracy

Short Bytes: MIT has developed a new AI system called AI2 to detect the cyberattack instances and mitigate hacking threats. This system analyzes billions of log lines per day and looks for meaningful patterns with abut 86 percent accuracy in detecting attacks. Detecting a cyberattack and its mitigation is one of the biggest challenges faced by businesses. Sniffing […]

New App Aims to Cure Blindness For Visually Impaired

With computers starting to help normal human beings to navigate better around the world, robotics and AI are all set to help the visually impaired to navigate around the world without any help. Scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are working on solutions that will turn this into reality. At the moment, […]

Self-driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill, Study Says

Short Bytes: As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems. A similar dilemma is faced in the case of self-driving cars and how they should act in case of unavoidable accidents. Should they kill more people on the road to save the car occupants? […]

Latest Facebook Prototype AI Monitors and Narrates Events in the Video

Facebook has finally improved its AI mechanism and unveiled its personal digital assistant that enhances your video watching experience tremendously. According to Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR pdf) computer vision team head Rob Fergus, an image recognition program for videos uploaded on Facebook is under development. This program won’t just monitor but explain whatever is happening […]

How to Create Your Own Google Deep Dream Nightmares in Seconds

Google’s Deep Dream robot has been creating one hell of a stir in recent weeks and fossBytes isn’t untouched by the same. Last week, we told you the secret behind these nightmarish and trippy images that can leave a bad taste in your mouth instantly. Today, we are going one step further and telling you […]

A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

Artificial Intelligence is getting embedded in our lives on a regular basis in form of various speech recognition software, digital assistants like Cortana or, the famous deep dreaming robot of Google – that turns pictures and video into horror movies. All this intelligence comes from a software called neural networks. Recently, a programmer shared a […]