AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid
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AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid

A new report details the role of AI in China’s effort to fight the coronavirus. Researchers at Synced, a China-based AI publication, describe how nearly 90 machine learning products have contributed to the country’s pandemic response.

July 29, 20201 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
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Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
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Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot
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Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot

Facebook recently rolled out its entry in the World’s Biggest Chatbot sweepstakes. In keeping with the company’s social-networking dominance, the bot is designed to excel at chitchat on any subject.

May 27, 20202 min read
Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot
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Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot

Facebook recently rolled out its entry in the World’s Biggest Chatbot sweepstakes. In keeping with the company’s social-networking dominance, the bot is designed to excel at chitchat on any subject.

May 27, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
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Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
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Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.
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Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.

Chatbots designed to recognize Covid-19 symptoms dispense alarmingly inconsistent recommendations. Given the same symptoms, eight high-profile medical bots responded with divergent, often conflicting advice.

April 1, 20201 min read
Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.
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Chatbots Disagree on Covid-19: Medical chatbots offered conflicting Covid advice.

Chatbots designed to recognize Covid-19 symptoms dispense alarmingly inconsistent recommendations. Given the same symptoms, eight high-profile medical bots responded with divergent, often conflicting advice.

April 1, 20201 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
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Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor

Androids may not dream of electric sheep, but some crack jokes about horses and cows. Meena, a 2.6-billion parameter chatbot developed by Google Brain, showed impressive conversational ability, discussing a variety of topics.

February 5, 20202 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
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Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor

Androids may not dream of electric sheep, but some crack jokes about horses and cows. Meena, a 2.6-billion parameter chatbot developed by Google Brain, showed impressive conversational ability, discussing a variety of topics.

February 5, 20202 min read
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
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AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at the biggest, buzziest consumer-technology showcase in the U.S. AI ruled the convention floor at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as numerous media outlets proclaimed.

January 15, 20202 min read
Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.
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Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.

AI is contributing to paintings, music, and now a whimsical fantasy video. The Squire is an amateur romp through a snowy realm of knights in armor and damsels in distress. The script was composed by AI Dungeon 2, an interactive text-adventure game based on the GPT-2 language model.

January 15, 20201 min read
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
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AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at the biggest, buzziest consumer-technology showcase in the U.S. AI ruled the convention floor at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as numerous media outlets proclaimed.

January 15, 20202 min read
Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.
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Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.

AI is contributing to paintings, music, and now a whimsical fantasy video. The Squire is an amateur romp through a snowy realm of knights in armor and damsels in distress. The script was composed by AI Dungeon 2, an interactive text-adventure game based on the GPT-2 language model.

January 15, 20201 min read

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