Latest from Google AI – Reconstructing indoor spaces with NeRF

Marcos Seefelder, Software Engineer, and Daniel Duckworth, Research Software Engineer, Google Research When choosing a venue, we often find ourselves with questions like the following: Does this restaurant have the right vibe for a date? Is there good outdoor seating? Are there enough screens to watch the game? While photos and videos may partially answer…

Latest from MIT : Defining the public interest in new technologies

How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, and play? Are there pathways that academics, practitioners, innovators, and entrepreneurs ought to be pursuing to ensure that the largest share of the benefits associated with new technologies uplift the most marginalized populations? What…

Latest from Google AI – Enabling delightful user experiences via predictive models of human attention

Posted by Junfeng He, Senior Research Scientist, and Kai Kohlhoff, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research People have the remarkable ability to take in a tremendous amount of information (estimated to be ~1010 bits/s entering the retina) and selectively attend to a few task-relevant and interesting regions for further processing (e.g., memory, comprehension, action). Modeling human…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – Successfully deploying machine learning

After decades of research and development, mostly confined to academia and projects in large organizations, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are advancing into every corner of the modern enterprise, from chatbots to tractors, and financial markets to medical research. But companies are struggling to move from individual use cases to organization-wide adoption for…

Latest from MIT : A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying

In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme…

Latest from MIT : Three Spanish MIT physics postdocs receive Botton Foundation fellowships

Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, were chosen by the Department of Physics as the first cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation Fellows. This year’s recipients are provided with a one-year stipend and a research fund to pursue their research interests; they will visit the Botton Foundation…

Latest from Google AI – Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and evaluating text-guided image inpainting

Posted by Su Wang and Ceslee Montgormery, Research Engineers, Google Research In the last few years, text-to-image generation research has seen an explosion of breakthroughs (notably, Imagen, Parti, DALL-E 2, etc.) that have naturally permeated into related topics. In particular, text-guided image editing (TGIE) is a practical task that involves editing generated and photographed visuals…

Latest from MIT : Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems and challenges. While their adoption, particularly with the rise of AI, is reshaping nearly every industry sector, discipline, and area of research, such innovations often expose unexpected consequences that involve new norms, new expectations,…