Feb 05, 2020

16 Posts

Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Feb 05, 2020

Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

Neural audio synthesizers like WaveRNN or GANSynth produce impressive sounds, but they require large, data-hungry neural networks. A new code library beefs up the neural music studio with efficient sound modules based on traditional synthesizer designs.

2 min read
Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition
Feb 05, 2020

Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition

Real-time face recognition has become standard operating procedure for cops in a few cities, in both authoritarian and democratic countries. After years of trials, police departments in Moscow and London are using face recognition to scan the streets for suspected criminals.

1 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
Feb 05, 2020

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.

2 min read
Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Feb 05, 2020

Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

Neural audio synthesizers like WaveRNN or GANSynth produce impressive sounds, but they require large, data-hungry neural networks. A new code library beefs up the neural music studio with efficient sound modules based on traditional synthesizer designs.

2 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Feb 05, 2020

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

1 min read
The Value of Life-Long Learning
Feb 05, 2020

The Value of Life-Long Learning

Many of us apply labels to ourselves that shape our identity. Some say, “I’m a sports fan,” and this attitude motivates behaviors such as cheering for the home team. Others identify themselves as introverts, extroverts, vegetarians, gamers...

1 min read
Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition
Feb 05, 2020

Nowhere to Hide: How police in London and Moscow use face recognition

Real-time face recognition has become standard operating procedure for cops in a few cities, in both authoritarian and democratic countries. After years of trials, police departments in Moscow and London are using face recognition to scan the streets for suspected criminals.

1 min read
AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.
Feb 05, 2020

AI Tackles OCD: An AI-designed drug got approved for human testing.

A drug designed by AI has been approved for testing in humans. A UK startup focused on automated drug discovery teamed up with a Japanese pharmaceutical company to produce a new medicine for obsessive compulsive disorder.

1 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
Feb 05, 2020

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.

2 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Feb 05, 2020

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

1 min read
The Batch: Robot Warehouse Workers, Cities Under Surveillance, Chatbot Comedian, Automated Drug Design
Feb 05, 2020

The Batch: Robot Warehouse Workers, Cities Under Surveillance, Chatbot Comedian, Automated Drug Design

Many of us apply labels to ourselves that shape our identity. Some say, “I’m a sports fan,” and this attitude motivates behaviors such as cheering for the home team. Others identify themselves as introverts, extroverts, vegetarians, gamers, athletes, scientists, and/or engineers.

11 min read
The Batch: Robot Warehouse Workers, Cities Under Surveillance, Chatbot Comedian, Automated Drug Design
Feb 05, 2020

The Batch: Robot Warehouse Workers, Cities Under Surveillance, Chatbot Comedian, Automated Drug Design

Many of us apply labels to ourselves that shape our identity. Some say, “I’m a sports fan,” and this attitude motivates behaviors such as cheering for the home team. Others identify themselves as introverts, extroverts, vegetarians, gamers, athletes, scientists, and/or engineers.

11 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Feb 05, 2020

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

2 min read
The Value of Life-Long Learning
Feb 05, 2020

The Value of Life-Long Learning

Many of us apply labels to ourselves that shape our identity. Some say, “I’m a sports fan,” and this attitude motivates behaviors such as cheering for the home team. Others identify themselves as introverts, extroverts, vegetarians, gamers...

1 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Feb 05, 2020

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

2 min read

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