How to Learn Machine Learning
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How to Learn Machine Learning

Want to become an AI practitioner? Here’s a program that will take you from beginner to job-ready. You may already have a head start, depending on your background. For a motivated person who starts with a solid high-school education it may take around two years.

January 19, 20223 min read
How to Learn Machine Learning
Speech Recognition

How to Learn Machine Learning

Want to become an AI practitioner? Here’s a program that will take you from beginner to job-ready. You may already have a head start, depending on your background. For a motivated person who starts with a solid high-school education it may take around two years.

January 19, 20223 min read
Everyone Has a Voice: Project Relate Offers Synthesized Speech that Works in Real Time
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Everyone Has a Voice: Project Relate Offers Synthesized Speech that Works in Real Time

An Android app offers speech recognition model for speech impaired by cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.

December 1, 20212 min read
Everyone Has a Voice: Project Relate Offers Synthesized Speech that Works in Real Time
Speech Recognition

Everyone Has a Voice: Project Relate Offers Synthesized Speech that Works in Real Time

An Android app offers speech recognition model for speech impaired by cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.

December 1, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Your Voice, Your Choice: AI-Powered Tool Modifies Voices in Real Time
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Your Voice, Your Choice: AI-Powered Tool Modifies Voices in Real Time

A startup enables people who participate in voice chat to use realistic artificial voices in real time. What’s new: Massachusetts-based Modulate offers a voice-masking tool to forestall harassment of people, particularly women and trans individuals,

October 20, 20211 min read
Your Voice, Your Choice: AI-Powered Tool Modifies Voices in Real Time
Speech Recognition

Your Voice, Your Choice: AI-Powered Tool Modifies Voices in Real Time

A startup enables people who participate in voice chat to use realistic artificial voices in real time. What’s new: Massachusetts-based Modulate offers a voice-masking tool to forestall harassment of people, particularly women and trans individuals,

October 20, 20211 min read
Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders
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Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders

Amazon unveiled a robot that patrols users’ homes, scopes out strangers, and warns of perceived dangers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders
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Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders

Amazon unveiled a robot that patrols users’ homes, scopes out strangers, and warns of perceived dangers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
Speech Recognition

Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read
Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.
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Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.

An independent test found flaws in AI systems designed to evaluate job applicants. MyInterview and Curious Thing, which automate job interviews, gave a candidate who spoke only in German high marks on English proficiency, according to MIT Technology Review.

July 14, 20212 min read
Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.
Speech Recognition

Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.

An independent test found flaws in AI systems designed to evaluate job applicants. MyInterview and Curious Thing, which automate job interviews, gave a candidate who spoke only in German high marks on English proficiency, according to MIT Technology Review.

July 14, 20212 min read
Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.
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Up for Debate: IBM's NLP-powered debate bot mines LexisNexis.

IBM’s Watson question-answering system stunned the world in 2011 when it bested human champions of the TV trivia game show Jeopardy! Although the Watson brand has fallen on hard times, the company’s language-processing prowess continues to develop.

April 28, 20212 min read

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