I present here the incredible power of GPT-3 by OpenAI. I also look at Dall-E which can generate images rather than just text.
Loss of Class Dynamics Amid Distance Learning
In this article I talk about how remote learning is becoming a thing and how class dynamics is going to suffer as a result.
Apple’s and Samsung’s Face Unlocking Technologies
Have you ever wondered how the technology that unlocks your phone with your face works? This is a fascinating question and, interestingly, Samsung and Apple provide very different technologies for this feature on their devices. This post will examine the differences between the two technologies and will also show you how either of the two […]
Review of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
I detest receiving books as gifts in the workplace. Such books are usually of the soulless sort, the sort that are written around some lifeless corporate motto that is supposed to inspire a new employee to work overtime when needed. So, when I walked into my first day at work at Carnegie Mellon University (Australia […]
How Facial Recognition Works – Part 2 (FaceNet)
Here I describe a specific facial recognition algorithm – one that changed things forever: FaceNet by Google.
How Facial Recognition Works – Part 1
(Update: part 2 of this post can be found here) Facial recognition. What a hot topic this is today! Hardly a week goes by without it hitting the news in one way or another, and usually for the wrong reasons – i.e. privacy and its growing ubiquity. But have you ever wondered how this technology […]
De-Identification of Faces in Live Videos – ICCV 2019
I present to you a paper from ICCV 2019 that proposes a fast and impressive method to de-identify videos in real-time. We all more privacy in our lives.
The Largest Cat Video Dataset in the World
This is a bit of a fun post about a “dataset” I stumbled upon a few days ago… a dataset of cat videos. As I’ve mentioned numerous times in various posts of mine, the deep learning revolution that is driving the recent advancements in AI around the world needs data. Lots and lots of data. For […]
Capturing the Moment in Photography – SIGGRAPH 2019 Award
Michael F. Cohen, the Director of Facebook’s Computational Photography Research team, has received the 2019 Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. Here is one of his contributions to photography.
Smart Glasses for the Blind – Why has it Taken This Long?
Google Glass was a flop. But what about glasses for the blind that tell the wearer what is in front of them? Or read a physical book for them?