Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
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Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 20201 min read
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
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Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.

Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.

February 12, 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
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
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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
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
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Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model
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Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model

School teachers may not like to hear this, but sometimes you get the best answer by peeking at your neighbor’s paper. A new language model framework peeks at the training data for context when making a prediction.

January 29, 20202 min read
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
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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
Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model
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Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model

School teachers may not like to hear this, but sometimes you get the best answer by peeking at your neighbor’s paper. A new language model framework peeks at the training data for context when making a prediction.

January 29, 20202 min read
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
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Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
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Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities
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Stopping Coronavirus: How Bluedot identified Covid-19 before health authorities

A company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of public-health authorities. Canadian startup BlueDot alerted customers to the outbreak in he Chinese city of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve.

January 29, 20202 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
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Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
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Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
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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

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