Category: AI advances

BERT is Google’s model for natural language understanding (NLU). ERNIE is Baidu’s. Their effectiveness is measured with a test known as General Language Understanding Evaluation, or GLUE for short. Language understanding is at the centre of many journalism uses of…

Runs 55:02 Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio connects deep learning to concepts of cognition described in ‘Thinking fast and Slow,’ the book by Daniel Kahneman. Bengio says ‘System 1’ thinking is like deep learning’s current state: He suggests future deep…

“Agents are increasingly one of the only human connections people have with brands in a digital world, so we want to coach them to improve their performance with AI and augment them on live calls with insights that can be…

Finland will offer its free AI training to all EU languages starting in 2020. “It’s about one of the most pressing challenges facing Europe and Finland today: how to develop our digital literacy,” says Finnish MInister of Employment Timo Harakka…

‘Should a work produced by an AI algorithm or process, without the involvement of a natural person contributing expression to the resulting work, qualify as a work of authorship protectable under U.S. copyright law? Why or why not?’ The US…

‘…the system tracks players in real-time and can identify passes, crosses and shots on goal. For pre-selected video highlights, it can also incorporate commentary based on statistics and standings drawn from a database’ A proof-of-concept for AI-driven sports commentary was…

Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin artists explore new meaning in data | Stephenville Empire-Tribune | DEcember 31, 2019 | by Hojun Choi | ‘Morton said the new brand of AI-powered generative art forces people to look inward for meaning rather…

‘What if you could manipulate the facial features of a historical figure, a politician, or a CEO realistically and convincingly using nothing but a webcam and an illustrated or photographic still image?’  A new technique known as facial reenactment enables…

‘Surprisingly, last year, we discovered that the majority of workers would trust orders from a robot. This year, almost two-thirds of workers said they would trust orders from a robot over their manager, and half have already turned to a…

‘It outlines thirteen specific questions, ranging from what happens if an AI creates a copyright-infringing work to if it’s legal to feed an AI copyrighted material.’ Copyright ownership with AI-generated material is ‘a messy subject’ and the US Patents and…

AI text generator GPT-2 is now fully available. The complete code and associated data was released by OpenAI, the California AI lab that created the model. The algorithm extrapolates text from a prompt phrase or sentence. You can try out…

‘The Graduate Art Prize…is open to all final year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges or universities.’ An image generated by an AI model and printed on fabric was the public favourite in a UK…

AI Stats News: Chatbots Increase Sales By 67% But 87% Of Consumers Prefer Humans | FORBES | November 25, 2019 | by Gil Press | ‘…consumers say humans are better at answering a variety of questions, understanding complex situations, and…

Runs 17:15 Talk by Alexa Head Scientist Rohit Prasad about next steps in voice interface using Amazon’s Alexa. He describes seven objectives: More transparency and control Learning from customers More knowledge More proactive More natural More fun More conversational LISBON…

‘Top players need adaptable short and long-term strategies to grow and defend their bases while laying waste to the opposition. To complicate matters, players cannot see the whole “map” of the game, so decisions are made on partial information.‘ With…

‘Research often guns for incremental advances, juicing an extra percentage point of accuracy out of a previously proposed model.’ Using AI results for real-world decisions can trigger a range of extra expenses, reports AXIOS. AI labs often concentrate on R&D…

‘It relies on the mind-bending ways some objects act at the subatomic level or when exposed to extreme cold, like the metal chilled to nearly 460 degrees below zero inside Google’s machine.‘ The mysterious field of quantum computing is a…

‘Every aspect of the site is generated by machine learning algorithms, from the entire books and accompanying cover artwork, to the reviews and pictures of people reviewing the books. And on top of that, all the books are actually available…

Stuart Russell suggests making intelligent machines ‘permanently deferential’ to humans so we may successfully co-exist with new forms of AI over time. Russell is a leading authority on the evolution of AI, and author (with Peter Norvig) of the principal…

‘…deep learning is less adept at interpreting video. Analyzing a video frame won’t reveal what’s happening unless that frame is compared with the ones that come before and after—a person holding a door may be opening it or closing it’…

‘…the hand learned to solve the puzzle through extreme trial and error. It spent the equivalent of 10,000 years spinning the tiles up, down, left and right, completing the task over and over again.’ A robotic hand that can figure…

‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns’ The NEW YORKER takes a detailed look at predictive text by unpacking Smart Compose, the AI capability recently built into Google mail. But the stride and strength of this piece…

‘The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.’ Undermining trust in media is a greater danger than actual deception, says a detailed study of misinformation by Deeptrace Labs, a cybersecurity firm…

‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was capable of just a few years ago. Until recently, chat bots were very obviously bots, producing incredibly simplistic, confused, incoherent…

KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston | ‘drive-thru technology could bump up check averages thanks to better personalization and suggestive selling — one of the key…

Efforts to combine the two foundations of AI may help systems express themselves. All AI systems work in one of two fundamental ways: Using logic – preprogrammed computer code that instructs operations step-by-step, known as symbolic computing. Using learning –…

‘AIVA has read and analyzed 30,000 of history’s greatest scores, from which, via machine learning, she has learned to predict melody movement, harmony arrangement and sequences in rhythm.’ Luxemburg-based AIVA Technologies has developed an algorithm that generates music based on…

Researchers at OpenAI in California found their algorithms started displaying complex behaviours after 25 million games. They stopped at 500 million. The algorithms evolved on their own over time The proof is in the results. Sets of algorithms, portrayed visually…

‘The seven patterns are: hyperpersonalization, autonomous systems, predictive analytics and decision support, conversational/human interactions, patterns and anomalies, recognition systems, and goal-driven systems.’ Cognilytica analyst Kathleen Walch distills the wide range of use cases in AI tech into seven discernible patterns….

Runs 34:45 2019 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio discusses the role of intelligent agents, having AI machines understand causality, and how both relate to current limitations in deep learning research. The Turing Prize is the highest award given in computer…