Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
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Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
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The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
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The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh
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Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh

Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.

September 21, 20222 min read
Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh
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Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh

Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.

September 21, 20222 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.
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Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.

IBM’s Watson question-answering system stunned the world in 2011 when it bested human champions of the TV trivia game show Jeopardy! Although the Watson brand has fallen on hard times, the company’s language-processing prowess continues to develop.

April 28, 20212 min read
Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.
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Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.

IBM’s Watson question-answering system stunned the world in 2011 when it bested human champions of the TV trivia game show Jeopardy! Although the Watson brand has fallen on hard times, the company’s language-processing prowess continues to develop.

April 28, 20212 min read
Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.
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Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.

AI startups continue to roared ahead, global pandemic or no. Tech industry analyst CB Insights published its fifth annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies.

April 21, 20211 min read
Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.
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Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.

AI startups continue to roared ahead, global pandemic or no. Tech industry analyst CB Insights published its fifth annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies.

April 21, 20211 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
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Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
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Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read

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