Scientists have taught a neural network to choreograph Dance Dance Revolution levels

Creating levels for video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution is a time-consuming task. The step charts used by the game are essentially choreographic scores, instructing players where to place their feet in time with the music. Usually they’re written by hand, either by the game’s developers or fans using open source DDR port StepMania. Now, […]

Google Translate starts using neural machine translation for Hindi, Russian, Vietnamese

Google today is announcing that it’s switching to a modern approach called neural machine translation for translations of text in Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese in its Google Translate app. The shift away from Google’s phrase-based machine translation system will result in more natural, higher-quality translations. Google adopted this method to translate from English into Chinese […]

FaceApp uses neural networks to make you smile, grow older, or change genders

Neural networks are revolutionizing computing, and image editing is one area that will experience drastic changes. Already, apps like Prisma are demonstrating this power, but a new company is using neural networks in a different way with an app called FaceApp. Unlike Prisma, which keeps the content of a source photo but changes the style, […]