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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

TechCrunch

Set in India, his script garnered some interest from producers, but no one took the plunge to fund a film by a first-time Indian director. Now, films featuring diverse casts are gaining traction – this year, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color, and only the second woman ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. Snapchat parent company Snap later confirmed it was a bug.

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New Series: Creating Media with Machine Learning

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By Vi Iyengar , Keila Fong , Hossein Taghavi , Andy Yao , Kelli Griggs , Boris Chen , Cristina Segalin , Apurva Kansara , Grace Tang , Billur Engin , Amir Ziai , James Ray , Jonathan Solorzano-Hamilton Welcome to the first post in our multi-part series on how Netflix is developing and using machine learning (ML) to help creators make better media?—?from

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11 most in-demand gen AI jobs companies are hiring for

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Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. Generative AI is quickly changing the landscape of the business world, with rapid adoption rates across nearly every industry.

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10 Trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2020

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10 Trends of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2020. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been predictable for decades, probably because the technology was associated with robots. So, if you consider the fact that only one in ten films are profitable, it is apparent that the use of AI in this sector is inevitable.

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Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

Altexsoft

Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals. WAV or WAVE (Waveform Audio File Format) developed by Microsoft and IBM. Source: Audio Singal Processing for Machine Learning.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

TechCrunch

The company was founded in 2019 by two brothers, Ofir and Nir Krakowski , whose backgrounds included machine learning and AI expertise. But Deepdub’s use of AI and machine learning is what makes it a unique solution in this space.