Generative AI has recently witnessed an exciting development: using language to understand images, video, audio, molecules, time-series, and other “modalities.” Multimodal retrieval exemplifies this advancement, allowing us to search one modality using another….
Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting
A new collaboration between researchers in Poland and the UK proposes the prospect of using Gaussian Splatting to edit images, by temporarily interpreting a selected part of the image into 3D space, allowing the user to modify and manipulate the 3D representation of the image, and…
Could AI Become Your Boss?
As artificial intelligence (AI) has grown, it’s stirred up a lot of questions about job losses. What if it didn’t take over your role but your boss’s? As strange as it may seem, some businesses are already experimenting with AI managers. How Do AI Bosses Work?…
The Friday Roundup – Capturing and Maintaining Audio Quality
Level Up Your Audio Quality Although these days the built-in mics on decent cameras and even smart phones are getting better they still leave a lot to be desired. In most cases at the affordable consumer level those mics have to be all things to all…
Sonar Unveils AI Code Assurance and AI CodeFix: Elevating Security and Productivity for AI-Generated Code
In the exponentially evolving world of AI-assisted software development, ensuring the quality and security of AI-generated code is more critical than ever. Sonar, a global leader in Clean Code solutions, has unveiled two new tools—AI Code Assurance and AI CodeFix—designed to help organizations safely harness the…
Intel’s Masked Humanoid Controller: A Novel Approach to Physically Realistic and Directable Human Motion Generation
Researchers from Intel Labs, in collaboration with academic and industry experts, have introduced a groundbreaking technique for generating realistic and directable human motion from sparse, multi-modal inputs. Their work, highlighted at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), focuses on overcoming the challenges of generating…
The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon
Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me:
The challenge with this icon is sparkle ambiguity: Participants in our recent research study generally agreed that it represented something a little special
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The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon originally published…
The Human-AI Partnership in EDR: Augmenting Cybersecurity Teams with Artificial Intelligence
As cyberattacks grow more frequent and complex, companies struggle to keep up. Highly skilled security teams work night and day to spot and stop digital intruders, but it often feels like a losing battle. Hackers always seem to have the advantage. However, there is a light…
Iccha Sethi, Vice President of Engineering at Vanta – Interview Series
Iccha Sethi is Vice President of Engineering at Vanta, the leading Trust Management Platform, where she leads initiatives focused on enhancing security and compliance automation. Previously, she was an engineering leader at GitHub where she oversaw a multi-product portfolio including Actions, Hosted Runners, Codespaces, Packages, Pages,…