Category: AI advances
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI in new $1B artificial intelligence partnership | SILICON ANGLE
The quest for more human-like AI is getting a big boost from Microsoft. It’s investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco company…
Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
The world of bluffs and tells is the latest game to be dominated by an AI system. Algorithmic victories are well known in…
Turing Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun | ACM 2019
Runs 1:31:50 Two of the principal architects of deep learning present this first-person account of its evolution and future. Geoffrey Hinton, Google Brain…
Samsung uses AI to transform photos into talking head videos | ZDNET
Still images can come to life using a AI model developed by Samsung at its Moscow research lab, ZDNET reports. Speech-like sequences can…
Teaching machines to write better adverts than humans | BBC
A machine that generates 20 to 25 ads per second — no extra time or charge for the puns — is one of…
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s … pretty good. | VOX
VOX tests the latest version of GPT-2, the controversial text-generating algorithm, and now you can too. A Toronto machine language engineer has put…
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help | INSIDE HIGHER ED
‘(It) could potentially be used by journalists to help communicate complex research to the public, though the authors say they aren’t going to…
An AI pioneer explains the evolution of neural networks | WIRED
Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says he was convinced all along ‘there’s no other way the brain can work’ and that’s why he…
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT Technology Review reports on a research discovery that suggests some AI capabilities can use simpler processing, ultimately meaning more computing power can…
OpenAI wants to make ultrapowerful AI, but not in a bad way | WIRED
OpenAI’s stated mission is to ensure that all of humanity benefits from any future AI that’s capable of outperforming “humans at most economically valuable work.”…
AI model adds music to its repertoire | jAI
An AI technology that generates believable text now produces tunes, too. Both come from OpenAI, a California company dedicated to developing artificial general…
Brain signals translated into speech using artificial intelligence | NATURE
You could call it ‘speaking your mind’ — your words detected from your brainwaves, then decoded with an AI system and artificially produced,…
First AI-generated textbook published by Springer | jAI
A 247-page publication about lithium-ion batteries is the first textbook authored by a computer, setting a new milestone in machine-generated publishing. Springer, a…
Amazon Alexa now offers long-form news coverage in addition to Flash Briefings | TECHCRUNCH
46% of smart speaker owners ask for news and segment leader Amazon has begun offering US users enriched news briefings, according to a…
iFlytek | AI-DAY 2019
Runs 27:35 Presentation by iFlytek, named by MIT in 2017 as the most innovative company in China and number six worldwide. Presenters: Zhang…
The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW reports new details of a $2 billion plan for AI research by DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency….