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Real-world Photoshop: Proctor & Gamble debut a handheld device that could replace makeup

Jan12
by on January 12, 2019 at 1:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Proctor & Gamble debuted its newest tool in the fight against aging. At CES this week, the company introduced the world to “Opté,” a handheld device that prints anti-aging product on top of your skin, acting as a real-world Photoshop, essentially. Opté covers up hyperpigmentation, or age spots, by gliding a device the size of an electric shaver over the skin‘s surface. Using blue LED lights, the device maximizes contrasts in melanin before using onboard cameras to take more than 200 images per second. Images are then sent to a microprocessor that analyzes 70,000 lines of code to determine the…

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Nefarious AI creates images of delicious food that doesn’t exist

Jan11
by on January 11, 2019 at 11:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University developed a neural network capable of reading a recipe and generating an image of what the finished, cooked product would look like. As if DeepFakes weren’t bad enough, now we can’t be sure the delicious food we see online is real. The Tel-Aviv team, consisting of researchers Ori Bar El, Ori Licht, and Netanel Yosephian created their AI using a modified version of a generative adversarial network (GAN) called StackGAN V2 and 52K image/recipe combinations from the gigantic recipe1M dataset. Basically, the team developed an AI that can take almost any list of…

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