7 achievements of Artificial Intelligence in 2018

Artificial Intelligence - technology, the development of which is closely watched by the government, business and the curious. I remember, what surprised us the AI ​​in the past year.

Pauline Kokovina

editor-in Binary District.

1. I wrote expensive painting

Golden baguette prints on canvas and the formula instead of the signature of the artist in the corner - it's "Portrait of Edmond Bellamy", written by an artificial intelligence. Christie's was the first auction house that soldIs artificial intelligence set to become art's next medium? AI created a picture: the web has gone for 432,500 dollars at a starting price of 7000.

He worked on the project team of French specialists Obvious. They used the algorithm of generative-competitive network, which consists of two neural networks. First, generator, scanned 15,000 portraits from the XIV to XX century and based on them has created his image. The second network discriminator, comparing the generator with paintingsWhich are written by men. The result was considered a success when the second network is not found the difference between the actual blade and the operation of the generator.

2. I created a horror film

The result was a strange and frightening black-and-white short film with incomprehensible dialogues. Artificial intelligence named Benjamin and became a writer and director and editor on the tape. He first came up with the story, and then find the necessary footage from old films, assembled them in the right order and put a modern face on the cast of heroes black-and-white film.

The creators of Benjamin said that not everything went smoothly on the women's faces sometimes appear a mustache and some replicas do not always fit the meaning. They attribute this to the fact that Benjamin had only 48 hours to work.

3. I learned how to determine the age of the eyes

Your age, you can hide from anyone, but not on AI. A group of scientists from the Moscow State University, in conjunction with technology startups HautAI OU to create artificial intelligence PhotoAgeClock, which is able toPhotoAgeClock: deep learning algorithms for development of non-invasive visual biomarkers of aging the chronological age of the person in the eyes.

The area around the eyes gives in little impact lifestyle or other factors and changes with age naturally, so scientists had decided to analyze exactly this zone. I studied the neural network 8500 photographs of the region around the eyes and learned to determine the age of up to two years.

4. I began to develop medicines

On the drug development takes decades, and then a few more years - on laboratory and clinical tests. This laborious and lengthy process.

The pharmacy school at the University of North Carolina scientists have createdArtificial intelligence system created at UNC-Chapel Hill designs drugs from scratch AI of two neural networks. In one loaded data on the structure and properties of the molecules, as well as the effect desired. The second neural network learns from the first: assimilate the data and selects the possible solutions. AI now works with more than 1.7 million molecules. This will help speed up the process of developing new medicines, and successful results can be the basis for creating, for example, new antibiotics.

5. He helped the Vatican

About a lot of legends of the Vatican archives. But what exactly it is known, in 2017 the state joined the team request In Codice RatioSo she studied the archives of texts and translated them into a digital format using AI. The first results began to emerge only in 2018. Total length of shelving in the archive - 85.2 km, but now transcribed and posted in just a few millimeters Network collection.

The process proved to be more difficult than anticipated. OCR technology letters (OCR) have long been used in the work with text books and other printed documents. But the materials of the Vatican archives - ancient manuscripts written in different fonts and different languages. OCR does not always understand where one character ends and the other begins. As a result, the researchers set up OCR not to recognize letters and words, and the mark of the details. The algorithm examines the dashes and lines and collects them in the options, like a puzzle.

6. He released a fashion collection

At Moscow Fashion Ksenia Bezuglova last week, an activist and "Miss World - 2013" among the girls in wheelchairs, introducedFuture Fashion: kiberzrenie, robots and artificial intelligence in the show Mercedes-Benz I-INCLUSIVE collection I-INCLUSIVE. She worked together with leading technology centers in Russia. Together they showed the clothes and accessories of the future for people with disabilities.

For example, the work of Ksenia and lab "Sensor-Tech" - a clever stick with the AI ​​for the blind and deaf-blind. The cane can recognize faces, objects and obstacles, measure the distance to them. The aim of the project was to help people with disabilities to lead more independent lives and to get acquainted with the world of fashion.

7. He became the leading news

In China, the artificial intelligence of this year'sChina's state-run Xinhua News Agency debuts 'AI anchor' to read the news a popular leader. He's reading the news in English, and looks and sounds like a real person - Zhang Zhao, a member of the news agency "Xinhua".

Simulation entirely computer-generated: combined texts speakers, facial expressions and lip movements of real people. The program loads the video with a real person, and the AI ​​using machine learning independently analyzes the gestures, manner of speaking and other details to reproduce it on the air.

AI sphere is increasingly gaining momentum. Possibly as early as next year, will launch projects that are now working in test mode: unmanned taxi submarine controlled AI or virtual border guards who conduct inspections in airports. We will follow with interest the development of technology, and you?