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Ai-Da
MEET YOUR FAVOURITE AI ARTIST.
NA | http://www.ai-darobot.comNuritas
BONO BACKED PHARMACEUTICAL STARTUP USES AI TO
UNCOVER NEW DRUGS.
NA | http://www.nuritas.comDeepNude
CONTROVERSIAL DEEPFAKE NUDE IMAGE CREATION
APP SHUTDOWN.
NA | twitter.com/deepnudeappByeBye Camera
DELETE YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE PEOPLE FROM YOUR
FAVOURITE PICTURES.
$2.99 | http://www.byebye.cameraThe debut of the AI artist has come and gone,
with a number of paintings selling for
surprisingly large sums of money at
respected auction houses; but there’s another
AI artist on the scene and we mean this quite
literally. Ai-Da, named after one of the first
programmers, Ada Lovelace, is a humanoid
robot that uses its robotic arms and AI
algorithms to paint and draw pictures from
the real world using paints, brushes, pencils
and the cameras in its head.An Irish healthcare startup called Nuritas is
using AI to find new supplement compounds
four times faster than the current industry
standards. Backed by none other than U2’s
Bono, the startup is claiming it’s developed and
tested an anti-inflammatory medication in the
space of two years and is anticipating releasing
up to five more compounds in the following 18
months. The company is reporting that it
generally takes between five and seven years to
discover new medicinal compounds and bring
them to market.Following widespread media attention an AI
image generation tool that transforms images
of fully clothed women into generated nudes
has closed just a day after the news cycle
picked up the story. The creators said in a
Tweet that “they greatly underestimated’ the
public response to the software and that “the
probability that people will misuse the service
is too high” as the cause for the removal. The
app was briefly available from Linux and
Windows and although it’ll undoubtedly be
circulated by existing owners, it’s no longer
available from the creators.There are people in this world that do their best
to be in every single picture they can, and while
you might occasionally be in a position to push
them out of the frame or edit them out later,
generally these photobombers will prevail
through sheer determination. This is, we
presume, the catalyst for the Bye Bye Camera
iOS app, which uses AI algorithms to remove
people from photographs. While this photo
smokebombing tool is undoubtedly the easiest
way to remove people from pictures, it has been
known to inadvertently remove puppies and
leave the odd clump of floating hair.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DISCOVERBLEEDINGEDGE:THEBESTOFEMERGINGTECH[ YOUR TECH CRYSTAL BALL ]Bleeding edge: the
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TECHLIFE’S PR ACTICAL MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF EMERGING
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[ JOEL BURGESS ]WITH FACEBOOK REPORTING over US$5 million of Oculus Quest
game sales in the first two weeks since launch and two to three week
backorder waits for Amazon US order fulfillment, standalone VR is
looking like it may have finally cracked a more mainstream gaming
market. It also seems to continue to be integral in the development of
animated films like The Lion King, despite the hollywood pulling back
on the overall number of VR screenings. AR hits all the buzzwords this
month with a game that uses Pokemon Go mechanics to collect
real-world cryptocurrency tokens. AI is as bonkers as ever showing off a
humanoid robot that paints portraits in front of you using robotic arms
and images captured from cameras in its eyes. If that’s not enough
scientists have also detailed how AI could save us from the climate crisis
we currently face through various image recognition and system
optimisation tasks that’ll reduce greenhouse gasses.