Category: AI advances
Sundar Pichai: Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence | DAVOS 2020
Runs 28:59 A conversation with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, at DAVOS 2020. He is interviewed by Klaus…
AI BRIEFS : 2020
China’s facial-recognition giant says it can crack masked faces during the coronavirus | QUARTZ | February 18, 2020 | by…
The Year in AI BRIEFS: 2019
The noticeable, the useful, the quirky: the pieces we noted as AI BRIEFS for 2019. In reverse chronology (January is…
Top 25 AI stories of 2019 | INSIDE AI
‘#1. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Google Brain developed an AI system that taught a robot to…
Ernie tops Bert in GLUE by figuring out Chinese
BERT is Google’s model for natural language understanding (NLU). ERNIE is Baidu’s. Their effectiveness is measured with a test known…
Yoshua Bengio: From System 1 Deep Learning to System 2 Deep Learning | NeurIPS 2019
Runs 55:02 A talk by Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio to an international assembly of AI researchers. Bengio is one…
Observe.ai raises $26 million for AI that monitors and coaches call center agents | VENTUREBEAT
“Agents are increasingly one of the only human connections people have with brands in a digital world, so we want…
Finland extends free AI training throughout Europe
Finland will offer its free AI training to all EU languages starting in 2020. “It’s about one of the most…
Copyright, Trademark, and Artificial Intelligence | PATENTLYO
‘Should a work produced by an AI algorithm or process, without the involvement of a natural person contributing expression to…
IBM Trials A.I. That Can Do Soccer Commentary | FORBES
‘…the system tracks players in real-time and can identify passes, crosses and shots on goal. For pre-selected video highlights, it…
AI BRIEFS: December 2019
Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin artists explore new meaning in data | Stephenville Empire-Tribune | DEcember 31, 2019 | by…
Researchers train AI to map a person’s facial movements to any target headshot | VENTURE BEAT
‘What if you could manipulate the facial features of a historical figure, a politician, or a CEO realistically and convincingly…
How artificial intelligence is redefining the role of manager | WEF
‘Surprisingly, last year, we discovered that the majority of workers would trust orders from a robot. This year, almost two-thirds…
The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates | THE VERGE
‘It outlines thirteen specific questions, ranging from what happens if an AI creates a copyright-infringing work to if it’s legal…
GPT-2 text generator released at full strength
AI text generator GPT-2 is now fully available. The complete code and associated data was released by OpenAI, the California…
Artificial Intelligence Artwork Wins Graduate Art Prize For Camberwell Graduate | ART & COLLECTIONS
‘The Graduate Art Prize…is open to all final year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges…
AI BRIEFS: November 2019
AI Stats News: Chatbots Increase Sales By 67% But 87% Of Consumers Prefer Humans | FORBES | November 25, 2019…
Evolution from keyword searches to AI-enabled conversations | WEB SUMMIT 2019
Runs 17:15 Talk by Alexa Head Scientist Rohit Prasad about next steps in voice interface using Amazon’s Alexa. He describes…
AI becomes grandmaster in ‘fiendishly complex’ StarCraft II | THE GUARDIAN
‘Top players need adaptable short and long-term strategies to grow and defend their bases while laying waste to the opposition….
The hidden costs of AI | AXIOS
‘Research often guns for incremental advances, juicing an extra percentage point of accuracy out of a previously proposed model.’ Using…
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing | NEW YORK TIMES
‘It relies on the mind-bending ways some objects act at the subatomic level or when exposed to extreme cold, like…
Booksby.ai is a bookshop entirely created by artificial intelligence | NEW ATLAS
‘Every aspect of the site is generated by machine learning algorithms, from the entire books and accompanying cover artwork, to…
Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about superintelligent AI – Science Weekly podcast | THE GUARDIAN
Stuart Russell suggests making intelligent machines ‘permanently deferential’ to humans so we may successfully co-exist with new forms of AI…
This Technique Can Make It Easier for AI to Understand Videos | WIRED
‘…deep learning is less adept at interpreting video. Analyzing a video frame won’t reveal what’s happening unless that frame is…
If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something? | NEW YORK TIMES
‘…the hand learned to solve the puzzle through extreme trial and error. It spent the equivalent of 10,000 years spinning…
The Next Word | THE NEW YORKER
‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns’ The NEW YORKER takes a detailed look at predictive text…
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.’ Undermining trust in…
The Economist’s essay contest featured an AI submission. Here’s what the judges thought. | VOX
‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was…
AI BRIEFS: October 2019
KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston…
Creativity and AI: The Next Step | SCIENTIFIC AMERICA
Efforts to combine the two foundations of AI may help systems express themselves. All AI systems work in one of…