Louis Bouchard
Hacker Noon
Montreal, QC, Canada
Contact Louis
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Louis:
What is General Video Recognition?
We’ve seen AI generate text, then generate images and most recently even generate short videos → Read More
PSG is a New Task for AIs Requiring Higher Levels of Understanding
Panoptic scene graph generation, or PSG, is a new problem task aiming to generate a more comprehensive graph representation of an image or scene based on panoptic segmentation rather than bounding boxes. It can be used to understand images and generate sentences describing what's happening. This may be the most challenging task for an AI! Learn more in the video... → Read More
What are Latent Diffusion Models? The Architecture Behind Stable Diffusion
What do all recent super powerful image models like DALLE, Imagen, or Midjourney have in common? Other than their high computing costs, huge training time, and shared hype, they are all based on the same mechanism: diffusion. → Read More
Introducing BANMo: From Cat Pictures to Deformable 3D Models
Here's BANMo, a NeRF-inspired approach shared at the CVPR 2022 event I attended a few weeks ago. → Read More
How Does DALL·E mini Work?
Dalle mini is amazing — and YOU can use it! → Read More
Google Brain's New Model Imagen is Even More Impressive than Dall-E 2
If you thought Dall-e 2 had great results, wait until you see what this new model from Google Brain can do. Dalle-e is amazing but often lacks realism, and this is what the team attacked with this new model called Imagen. They share a lot of results on their project page as well as a benchmark, which they introduced for comparing text-to-image models, where they clearly outperform Dall-E 2, and… → Read More
How Uber Uses AI to Improve Deliveries
How can Uber deliver food and always arrive on time or a few minutes before? How do they match riders to drivers so that you can *always* find a Uber? All that while also managing all the drivers?! → Read More
Deepmind May Have Just Created the World's First General AI
Gato from DeepMind was just published! It is a single transformer that can play Atari games, caption images, chat with people, control a real robotic arm, and more! Indeed, it is trained once and uses the same weights to achieve all those tasks. And as per Deepmind, this is not only a transformer but also an agent. This is what happens when you mix Transformers with progress on multi-task… → Read More
BlobGAN: A BIG step for GANs
BlobGAN allows for unreal manipulation of images, made super easily controlling simple blobs. All these small blobs represent an object, and you can move them around or make them bigger, smaller, or even remove them, and it will have the same effect on the object it represents in the image. This is so cool! → Read More
Meta's New Model OPT is an Open-Source GPT-3
We’ve all heard about GPT-3 and have somewhat of a clear idea of its capabilities. You’ve most certainly seen some applications born strictly due to this model, some of which I covered in a previous video about the model. GPT-3 is a model developed by OpenAI that you can access through a paid API but have no access to the model itself. → Read More
The World's Most Powerful Deepfake Model was Just Released by Google
This AI can reconstruct, enhance and edit your images! → Read More
Google's New AI Creates Summaries of your Documents in Google Docs
Google recently announced a new model for automatically generating summaries using machine learning, released in Google Docs that you can already use. → Read More
OpenAI's New Model is Amazing! DALL·E 2 Explained Simply
Last year I shared DALL·E, an amazing model by OpenAI capable of generating images from a text input with incredible results. Now is time for his big brother, DALL·E 2. And you won’t believe the progress in a single year! DALL·E 2 is not only better at generating photorealistic images from text. The results are four times the resolution! → Read More
THE BEST Photo to 3D AI Model !
As if taking a picture wasn’t a challenging enough technological prowess, we are now doing the opposite: modeling the world from pictures. I’ve covered amazing AI-based models that could take images and turn them into high-quality scenes. A challenging task that consists of taking a few images in the 2-dimensional picture world to create how the object or person would look in the real world. → Read More
How Waymo Combines Lidar and Cameras for 3D Object Detection
Let us talk about how autonomous vehicles 'see' the world. → Read More
An AI That Can Resurrect Memories
Do you also have old pictures of yourself or close ones that didn’t age well or that you, or your parents, took before we could produce high-quality images? I do, and I felt like those memories were damaged forever. Boy, was I wrong! → Read More
Top 5 AI Articles of February 2022 Every Data Scientist Should Read
Here are the five best articles related to artificial intelligence in February, hoping they will make you want to learn more and visit their website. → Read More
SpeechPainter: Text-conditioned Speech Inpainting
We’ve seen image inpainting, which aims to remove an undesirable object from a picture. The machine learning-based techniques do not simply remove the objects, but they also understand the picture and fill the missing parts of the image with what the background should look like. The recent advancements are incredible, just like the results, and this inpainting task can be quite useful for many… → Read More
AI Generates Realistic 3D Models Using Only a Handful of Images
Neural Rendering. Neural Rendering is the ability to generate a photorealistic model in space just like this one, from pictures of the object, person, or scene of interest. In this case, you’d have a handful of pictures of this sculpture and ask the machine to understand what the object in these pictures should look like in space. You are basically asking a machine to understand physics and… → Read More
Realistic Face Manipulation in Videos With AI
You've most certainly seen movies like the recent Captain Marvel or Gemini Man where Samuel L Jackson and Will Smith appeared to look like they were much younger. This requires hundreds if not thousands of hours of work from professionals manually editing the scenes he appeared in. Instead, you could use a simple AI and do it within a few minutes. → Read More