Colorize Black & White Pictures

Happy Tuesday and Welcome Back to AINow, the newsletter where we keep you up-to-date with the latest and most important developments in the field of artificial intelligence.

Ever wonder why you can’t put down your phone? Reinforcement Learning for User Retention (RLUR) might be to blame:

Researchers with Kuaishou Technology have published details of “Reinforcement Learning for User Retention”, a technique they use to get people to spend more time on their application. “Our objective is to minimize the accumulated time interval of multiple sessions, which is equal to improving the app open frequency and user retention,” they write. “The RLUR algorithm has been fully launched in Kuaishou app, and it shows that RLUR continuously improves user retention and DAU.”

Yeah... pretty scary stuff. Now, lets get into today's issue. 

🔧 Today's Top Tools 

Palette

• Used by Netflix, this technology has the ability to colorize black and white pictures, bringing old and historical photos to life with vivid and realistic colors.

• Click the image below for a tutorial on how it works & how to use it.

Merlin

• Merlin gives you the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT anywhere you search or write online.

• Quickly edit your emails, write twitter replies, create excel formulas, and so much more.

DoNotPay

• The world's first robot lawyer. Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button.

Talk To Books

• A new way to explore ideas and discover books. Make a statement or ask a question to browse passages from books using experimental AI.

• Check out its capabilities by clicking on the image below.

📊 News

• California and Salesforce researchers generate original proteins from scratch

• More than 60 nations agree to address concerns over the use of AI in warfare

• Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories

🔑 Use Case 

In the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it is now possible to use algorithms and data analysis to distinguish between different types of drinks such as beer and wine. In this episode of Cloud AI Adventures, Yufeng takes us through the 7 steps involved in applied machine learning.

🧠 Learn 

Ever gotten wacky results when trying to generate faces with AI? Click on the image below to learn how to restore AI-generated faces using GFPGAN.