Category: AI advances
The Story of ELIZA, the First Chatbot Developed In The 1960s | MR JOURNALISM
Conversational computing has its roots in 1966, reports MARKET RESEARCH JOURNALISM in a brief recounting of chatbot history. The earliest versions used pre-programmed…
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
GPT-2, a text-generating AI model, created headlines when it first announced in February this year. Its creators released only 8% of its code…
Predictive AI helps Foxtel drive double-digit growth: Insights for publishers | WNIP
Predicting when a cricket wicket would drop five minutes before it happened helped Foxtel reinvent live sports coverage in Australia with machine learning….
‘Wafer scale engine’ designed to power AI of the future
The world’s largest computer chip will enable AI models to consider 4 billion parameters at once. That compares to about a million per…
Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business users | SiliconANGLE
China tech giant Baidu has developed business-grade translation for real-time use on personal devices. SILCON ANGLE reports the service is intended for situations…
AI is learning from humans. Many humans. | NEW YORK TIMES
The NEW YORK TIMES reports on the labour-intensive work of turning images and sounds into data. The objective is making training material for…
Montag is a New Magazine Written Entirely by AI | BEEBOM
Montag is a German-based website of articles generated by an algorithm. BEEBOM reports the online publication was developed by Grover, a Berlin start-up…
Gary Marcus: Deepmind’s losses and the future of artificial intelligence | WIRED
‘Deep reinforcement learning may not be the royal road to artificial general intelligence, but DeepMind itself is a formidable operation, tightly run and…
Future of Fast Food: How Valyant AI Plans to Revolutionize the Drive-Thru | OBSERVER
Instead of voice AI that’s trained to handle any question, Valyant AI is focused on expertise in one domain at a time: fast…
Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
US chip-maker Nvidia has developed software that dramatically speeds-up natural language processing (NLP). MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW reports on the double-edge sword effect: uses-for-good…