Category: AI advances
Could your next favorite artist be a robot? | AI BUSINESS
‘AIVA has read and analyzed 30,000 of history’s greatest scores, from which, via machine learning, she has learned to predict…
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…
A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test | NEW YORK TIMES
‘In recent months, the world’s leading A.I. labs have built elaborate neural networks that can learn the vagaries of language by analyzing…
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, opening the door to…
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…
Patent agencies challenged to accept AI inventor | FINANCIAL TIMES
“Whatever you think of the ideas on their own, that’s not really the point,” (Abbot) said. “What’s striking is that…
Social Media’s Plan to Fight Online Trolls Gets a Reality Check: Eye on A.I. | FORBES
Using AI for content moderation still faces significant hurdles, says a UK consultancy in a report by FORBES. Cambridge Consultants…
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI in new $1B artificial intelligence partnership | SILICON ANGLE
With its fortune made from creating instructions for desktop computers, Microsoft is betting $1 billion on machines figuring things out…
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…
AI BRIEFS : July 2019
Translation advances are now posing a risk to jobs | VERDICT | July 31, 2019 | ‘Ofer Shoshan, CEO of…
Turing Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun | ACM 2019
Runs 1:31:50 Two of the principal architects of deep learning give their first-person account of its evolution and future. Geoffrey…
NBCUniversal Is Beta-Testing a New AI Ad Offering to Reach Consumers in the Proper Context | ADWEEK
Marketers are matching TV storylines with ads using machine learning, reports ADWEEK. For example, a driving scene could be followed…
AI BRIEFS: June 2019
Watch artificial intelligence predict Conan O’Brien’s gestures just from the sound of his voiceSCIENCE | June 21, 2019 | by Matthew Hutson…
Samsung uses AI to transform photos into talking head videos | ZDNET
Still images come to life in a AI model developed by Samsung at its Moscow research lab, ZDNET reports. With…
Teaching machines to write better adverts than humans | BBC
Algorithms are becoming better than humans at writing ad slogans. This BBC NEWS report gives an example of ‘have a…
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…