Category: AI advances
AI-driven text generator released at full strength
AI text generator GPT-2 is now freely available in its full form. The complete code and associated data was released…
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 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…
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 from a year’s worth of e-mails sent from Gmail.com.’ The…
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…
Hide-and-seek finds clues to human-like AI
Researchers at OpenAI in California found their algorithms started displaying complex behaviours after 25 million games. They stopped at 500…
The Seven Patterns Of AI | FORBES
‘The seven patterns are: hyperpersonalization, autonomous systems, predictive analytics and decision support, conversational/human interactions, patterns and anomalies, recognition systems, and…
AI Horizons Keynote – Yoshua Bengio | AI RESEARCH WEEK 2019
Runs 34:45 2019 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio discusses the role of intelligent agents, having AI machines understand causality, and…
Why These Two Innovations In Artificial Intelligence Are So Important: Eye on A.I. | FORBES
The findings aren’t about using A.I. for marginal gains, like better ad targeting or for preventative maintenance. We’re talking about…
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 first…
AI BRIEFS: September 2019
Artificial intelligence and face scanning technology is being used in UK job interviews for the first time to identify best…
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…after careful monitoring, OpenAI had not yet found any attempts of malicious use but had seen multiple beneficial applications, including…
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….
‘Wafer scale engine’ designed to power AI of the future
The world’s largest computer chip will enable AI models to process 4 billion parameters at once. That compares to about…
Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business users | SiliconANGLE
‘Users simply download the Baidu translation app, scan a QR code for the specific conference they’re attending, and the translations…
AI is learning from humans. Many humans. | NEW YORK TIMES
‘What I saw didn’t look very much like the future — or at least the automated one you might imagine….
Montag is a New Magazine Written Entirely by AI | BEEBOM
‘The contents for the articles are scraped from the internet using shell scripts and Python scripts. The scraped text then…
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,…
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…
Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…it’s likely to be a long while before machines can really converse with us. Language is deceptively difficult for machines…
JPMorgan Chase picks AI over humans to write ads | SF GATE
‘…the largest U.S. bank says Persado’s “artificial intelligence message machine” wrote ads that generated two to five times the response…
AI BRIEFS: August 2019
AI and machine learning set to change science journalism landscape INDIA SCIENCE WIRE | August 30, 2019 | by Umashankar…