‘#1. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Google Brain developed an AI system that taught a robot to walk.’
The newsletter INSIDE AI names its picks as the most significant AI developments of the past year. The ones related to journalism are:
- #5 – The GPT-2 algorithm – Our coverage
- #6 – The AI news anchors on Xinhua TV China – Our coverage
- #14 – Growth in automated detection of deepfakes – Our coverage
Others include:
- #2 – China and the U.S. lead in AI patents
- #3 – The world’s fastest supercomputer, Summit, set a new record for machine learning speed
- #4 – The U.S. government released its national AI strategy
- #9 – MIT developed a neural network believed to be up to 200x faster than previous models
Top 25 AI stories of 2019
INSIDE AI | December 2019 | by Beth Duckett