Category: AI advances
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…
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…
An AI pioneer explains the evolution of neural networks | WIRED
‘if you want to make a device do something intelligent, you’ve got two options: You can program it, or it…
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The finding has the potential to unlock new applications—some of which we can’t yet fathom—that could improve our day-to-day lives.’…
AI BRIEFS: May 2019
Hollywood is quietly using AI to help decide which movies to makeTHE VERGE | May 28, 2019 | by James…
The Future of A.I., According to Three New Books | NEW YORK TIMES
Three new titles consider how artificial intelligence will influence human thinking. THE NEW YORK TIMES presents a trio of reviews…
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…
AI model adds music to its repertoire
An AI technology that generates believable text now produces tunes, too. Both come from OpenAI, a California company dedicated to…
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…
First AI-generated textbook published by Springer
A publication about lithium-ion batteries is the first textbook authored by a computer. The 247-page title sets a new milestone…
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,…
AI BRIEFS: April 2019
AI writers will never replace quality content creators THE DRUM | April 30, 2109 | by Andy Evans | ‘AI-generated…
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…
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…
AI BRIEFS: March 2019
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Write Amazing Content — What Does That Mean For Humans? FORBES | March 29, 2019 |…
Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The problem is our technology has become more and more sophisticated, but our thinking on what is free speech and…
Jill Lepore: Are Robots Competing for Your Job? | THE NEW YORKER
‘…in American history, panic about technological change is almost always tangled up with panic about immigration’ IN THE NEW YORKER…
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…the trumpet is not, itself, creative. Artificial-intelligence algorithms are more like musical instruments than they are like people.’ In MIT…
As artificial intelligence changes the world, it changes our language too | LSE BUSINESS REVIEW
‘Usually the new words flow from necessity and are created organically. But with AI, I am going to jump the…
Yael Eisenstat: The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias | WIRED
IN WIRED MAGAZINE former Facebook elections integrity head Yael Eisenstat observes the ‘move fast’ culture in tech means there is…
AI BRIEFS: February 2019
The truth behind deepfakes THE DAILY | February 28, 2019 | by Ayisha Guillen | ”This is a constant arms…
Robo-Reporting: How Artificial Intelligence Is Assisting Journalists in the Newsroom | WHARTON PODCAST
Runs 20:11 The Washington Post’s Jeremy Gilbert, head of strategic initiatives and the lead for AI at the paper, discusses…
GANS: Faces from data
AI SCIENTIST IAN GOODFELLOW QUIETLY posted these five images to Twitter shortly into the new year. His tweet had no…
AI BRIEFS: January 2019
Google releases dataset to help AI systems spot fake audio recordings VENTURE BEAT | January 2019 |‘When Google announced the Google…
Steven Strogatz: One Giant Step for a Chess Playing Machine | NEW YORK TIMES
‘AlphaZero seemed to express insight. It played like no computer ever has, intuitively and beautifully, with a romantic, attacking style.’…
Artificial Intelligence Index | 2018
AI research continues to be predominantly male-driven according to this annual index of key indicators compiled by the AI research…
2018: 18 highlights in computer science
THE 18 BIGGEST DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR 2018 have been named by MIT’s Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL)….
AI has a culturally biased world view that Google has a plan to change | THE DOWNLOAD
A standard image-recognition system, trained on open-source data sets, can recognize a bride in a white dress, reflecting the classic…
Novel AI system can draw caricatures | THE INDIAN EXPRESS
‘The method enables users to automate caricatures of portraits, and can be applied to tasks such as creating caricatured avatars…
The first AI-scripted commercial is here – and it’s surprisingly good | WEF
‘Watson was given 15 years’ worth of award-winning commercials, a trove of data showing when consumers tended to connect most…