Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Generative Modeling

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
Generative Modeling

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
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Generative Modeling

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Generative Modeling

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music
Generative Modeling

Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music

A new generative model croons like Elvis and raps like Eminem. It might even make you think you’re listening to a lost demo by the Beatles. OpenAI released Jukebox, a deep learning system that has generated thousands of songs in styles from country to metal and soul.

May 6, 20202 min read
Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music
Generative Modeling

Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music

A new generative model croons like Elvis and raps like Eminem. It might even make you think you’re listening to a lost demo by the Beatles. OpenAI released Jukebox, a deep learning system that has generated thousands of songs in styles from country to metal and soul.

May 6, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Generative Modeling

Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery

Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.

April 15, 20202 min read
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Generative Modeling

Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery

Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.

April 15, 20202 min read
Voice Cloning for the Masses: An AI project clones cartoon character voices.
Generative Modeling

Voice Cloning for the Masses: An AI project clones cartoon character voices.

Are you secretly yearning to have a My Little Pony character voice your next online presentation? A new web app can make your dreams come true. 15.ai translates short text messages into the voices of popular cartoon and videogame characters.

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

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
Voice Cloning for the Masses: An AI project clones cartoon character voices.
Generative Modeling

Voice Cloning for the Masses: An AI project clones cartoon character voices.

Are you secretly yearning to have a My Little Pony character voice your next online presentation? A new web app can make your dreams come true. 15.ai translates short text messages into the voices of popular cartoon and videogame characters.

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

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
Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.
Generative Modeling

Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.

Bored with your Spotify playlists? Let this robot singer/songwriter take you on a trip “Into Your Mind.” A music-composing, marimba-playing robot named Shimon has learned to write and sing its own lyrics, IEEE Spectrum reports.

March 25, 20202 min read

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