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LitterCam

Computer vision software can now detect motorists throwing litter out of their window and match this with the car’s number plate to issue an automatic fine of £90. The first trial of the new system will begin in Maidstone, Kent, UK. 

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BearID Project

“We develop noninvasive technologies to identify and monitor bears, facilitating their conservation.”

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AI autocompletes Windows 95 startup tune

Here’s what happens when the Windows 95 startup sound is fed to OpenAI Jukebox algorithms to generate its continuation. To train Jukebox on a number of music genres, OpenAI researchers crawled the web to extract a new dataset of 1.2 million songs paired with corresponding lyrics and metadata.

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Chants of Fuck the Algorithm

Students gathered outside of the department of education, in London, to protest Ofqual’s use of an Algorithm to determine this year’s A-level exam results, of which 40% were downgraded, causing many students to lose their places at universities. Video credit: Huck

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First Order Kiss by Shardcore

The artist Shardcore has used a Machine Learning technique called First Order Motion Model to animate celebrities singing the Prince song kiss.

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training an existing StyleGAN model of faces, on cats

Janelle Shane has run various ‘transfer learning’ experiments with RunwayML, where you train an existing model on a new set of images. Here, the popular StyleGAN v2 ‘faces’ model is trained for a while on photos of her cats.  

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Coughing Simulations 

Various research groups are using software to run simulations of how coughing can spread in public places. The first one is by Aalto university and the airplane one is by researchers at Purdue University. Are these funny or scary? 

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AI Memes by imgFlip

This AI meme generator autocompletes popular meme templates using Machine Learning. The Neural Network model was trained on memes created by Imgflip users. The generator has an easy-to-use interface (pictured top) where you can choose a template and add optional keywords to influence the generated text. Here is a result I got using the ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ meme, along with some of the most popular results from the AI Memes stream.