Bots on stage

From 26 to 29 August 2021, the first International Data Science Film Festival (IDSFF) will take place. The IDSFF is the first film festival in the world to focus entirely on Data Science and AI. The IDSFF will take place in the Mariënburg monastery, home JADS, in the center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum can now enjoy The Night Watch in its original form, for the first time in 300 years. Several sections were cut from the painting in the past. The Operation Night Watch team has successfully recreated these missing pieces, which have now been mounted around Rembrandt’s world-famous work. This reconstruction based on the 17th-century copy attributed to Gerrit Lundens was made with the help of artificial intelligence. The result is a significant component in the art historical research conducted as part of Operation Night Watch. The reconstructed painting will remain on public display at the Rijksmuseum for the coming months. Anyone who is unable to visit the museum due to the ongoing restrictions can view the reconstruction on our website, along with plenty of supplementary information.

Le projet « Le bateau qui vole », dont l’objectif est d’exploiter en temps réel les données de navigation du trimaran Ocean Fifty Primonial pour le rendre plus rapide, mêle big data, IA et machine learning.

Microsoft Flight Simulator, which reconstructs the entire world in 3D based on AI and Bing data from the Azure cloud, yesterday received an award at the 24th edition of the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Awards, an initiative of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS).

How was the much-watched video of Boston Dynamics dancing robots made? In this video, Adam Savage, one of the Mythbusters presenters, shows how Spot learned to dance.

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The new edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator has become a visual masterpiece, which is only possible by making smart use of AI, machine learning and the corresponding computing power in the cloud. As a result, the entire world is shown in detailed 3D image, in combination with live weather effects and other air traffic.

The video Slaughterbots is now two years old, and more than two million people have watched it worldwide. This visual warning against the danger of autonomous weapons is still relevant today, and although protests against such weapons are growing, no official measures have yet been taken to ban autonomous weapons.

Neil Sahota recently released the book Own the AI Revolution. In this book – which is specifically aimed at non-technically skilled business leaders – he helps his readers to recognize and seize the opportunities of AI.