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

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.

February 5, 20202 min read
Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Generative Modeling

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.

February 5, 20202 min read
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
Generative Modeling

Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI

A new system marks a step forward in converting text to speech: It’s fast at inference, reduces word errors, and provides some control over the speed and inflection of generated speech.What’s new: Yi Ren, Yangjun Ruan, and their co-authors at Zhejiang

January 29, 20202 min read
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
Generative Modeling

Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI

A new system marks a step forward in converting text to speech: It’s fast at inference, reduces word errors, and provides some control over the speed and inflection of generated speech.What’s new: Yi Ren, Yangjun Ruan, and their co-authors at Zhejiang

January 29, 20202 min read
Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
Generative Modeling

Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.

In tasks that involve generating natural language, neural networks often map an input sequence of words to an output sequence of words. Facebook researchers used a similar technique on sequences of mathematical symbols, training a model to map math problems to math solutions.

January 15, 20202 min read
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
Generative Modeling

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.
Generative Modeling

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
Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
Generative Modeling

Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.

In tasks that involve generating natural language, neural networks often map an input sequence of words to an output sequence of words. Facebook researchers used a similar technique on sequences of mathematical symbols, training a model to map math problems to math solutions.

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

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
Generative Modeling

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
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

January 8, 20201 min read
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

January 8, 20201 min read
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes

Society awakened to the delight, threat, and sheer weirdness of realistic images and other media dreamed up by computers.

December 24, 20192 min read
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes
Generative Modeling

Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes

Society awakened to the delight, threat, and sheer weirdness of realistic images and other media dreamed up by computers.

December 24, 20192 min read
Who’s Minding the Store?
Generative Modeling

Who’s Minding the Store?

Amazon, watch your back. There’s a new player in the book business and, unlike Jeff Bezos, it doesn’t need eight hours of sleep a night. The online bookstore Booksby.ai is run entirely by AI. Neural networks write the books, create the cover art, price the merchandise, even write the reviews.

November 6, 20191 min read

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