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It  has been on many newspapers in the last two days and -most likely- you  already  saw it, so I am not publishing it as a “news” just as further evidence that Generative AI has reached a quality  level au pair with that reached by the very best humans in …

“I like it”, and that is basically it!  When you taste a new dish, or a usual one, at home or at a restaurant you are not going into very many details on what you like, why you like it …. you eat and if you are happy … it …

Digital Cameras, yes also the ones embedded in smart phones, have advanced functions for image recognition. The objective of those functions is to set the ideal focus and exposure to get a good photo. An experienced photographer might do a better job (although in cases where decision time is very …

Sony researchers were due to present a paper at CHI 2020,  scheduled at the end of April in Honolulu, Hawaii, but because of the epidemic the conference was cancelled. Their paper, however, is available. And it is a paper worth reading. The title, “Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for hand …

I would have thought that gastronomy was as far as possible from artificial intelligence but I was wrong. For sure, as you walk through a city in the Far East Asia and smell the plentiful of street food you see plenty of human intelligence and no artificial intelligence, actually you don’t …

On November 20th Sony announced the established of Sony AI to advance fundamental research and development of AI to be applied to many fields. Their first focus will be on gaming, photography and … gastronomy.  I’ll address gastronomy in the next post. That gaming and photography are playing field for Artificial …

Clearly there is much more than voice based interaction.  So let’s explore other technologies and their implication first by looking at voice (and typing that we have already considered) alternative technologies and then taking the plunge into multimodal interactions (that is our natural way of interacting as human being!). Let’s …

Nature has evolved an impressive variety of eyes, not just in shape but also in characteristics. You may want to take a look at this wonderful article, from where I extracted the photos of a variety of eyes, to “see” what animals can “see”. I found it an amazing and …

The new digital camera sensor, designed for top of the line smartphones by Sony, is quite remarkable and it shows the kind of sophistication, and ingenuity, reached in this area. Cramming 48Mpixels in the small surface available for a sensor targeting smartphones means having to reduce the pixel size considerably, …

Electronic contact lenses have been around for a while, the first being experimented at the beginning of this decade, but they are still in the “prototype” stage. You may want to get an update on what is going on here. There are several features that an electronic contact lens can …