3 ways next-gen academics can avoid an unnecessary AI winter

Jul08
by on July 8, 2022 at 10:14 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


There are two realities when it comes to artificial intelligence. In one, the future’s so bright you need to put on welding goggles just to glance at it. AI is a backbone technology that’s just as necessary for global human operations as electricity and the internet. But in the other reality, winter is coming. An “AI winter,” is a period in which nothing can grow. That means nobody’s hiring, nobody’s acquiring, and nobody’s funding. But this impending barren season is special, it won’t affect the entire industry. In fact, most of the experts won’t even notice it. Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia,…

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Why ‘facial expression recognition’ AI is a total scam

Jul07
by on July 7, 2022 at 10:10 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


A team of researchers at Jilin Engineering Normal University in China recently published a paper indicating they’d built an AI model capable of recognizing human facial expressions. I’m going to save you some time here: they most certainly did not. Such a thing isn’t currently possible. The ability to accurately recognize human emotions is what we here at Neural would refer to as a “deity-level” feat. The only people who truly know how you’re feeling at any given moment are you and any potential omnipotent beings out there. But you don’t have to take my word for it. You can…

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How L-Acoustics brings the sweet sound of spatial audio to the masses

Jul06
by on July 6, 2022 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Insider, Plugged


For most of our lives, stereo has been the primary way of rendering the music we consume. Immersive audio systems like surround sound have been around for decades, but immersive audio content has been rare outside of TV and film. But perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising: reproducing and, especially, creating immersive audio content is awfully inconvenient. Luckily, things are starting to change. Immersive audio is finally becoming accessible to the mainstream thanks to big-name manufacturers like Apple building spatial audio right into their headphones. Even setting up spatial audio speaker systems has become a cinch thanks to wireless speaker manufacturers…

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