Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.
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Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.

Will reading soon become obsolete? A new system converts text articles into videos. VidPress, a prototype project from Chinese tech giant Baidu, currently generates more than 1,000 narrated video summaries of news stories daily.

May 27, 20202 min read
Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.
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Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.

Will reading soon become obsolete? A new system converts text articles into videos. VidPress, a prototype project from Chinese tech giant Baidu, currently generates more than 1,000 narrated video summaries of news stories daily.

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
Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.
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Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.

May 27, 20201 min read
Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.
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Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.

May 27, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
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Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

May 20, 20201 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
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Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

May 20, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read

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