Last Week in AI #5
Eduardo Cerna, July 22, 2019
AI and VR to Teach Mandarin
Snippet: Equipped with AI and VR capabilities, a classroom for students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York offers them the ability to interact with their 360-degree virtual environment in order to learn Mandarin, obtaining real-time feedback on their tone and pronunciation. If the concept is successful, it will serve as a model for future applications.
Read more at: MIT Tech Review
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TALK TO OUR EXPERTVideo Object-Removal Software Now Available to Everyone
The system which allows removing objects from video is now open-source. It works by drawing a box around the subject which you want to remove and it’ll automatically fill in the missing space using a technique dubbed “inpainting”. You can check out some examples in the link attached.
Read more at: Synced Review
Deep-learning Algorithm Teaches Itself to Solve Rubik’s Cube
For the first time, a deep-learning algorithm dubbed DeepCubeA was able to decipher a Rubik’s cube, which has a quintillion possible combinations but only 1 solution.
Read more at: Nature