Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
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Where Are the Live Bombs?: Computer vision identifies unexploded bombs in Cambodia.

Unexploded munitions from past wars continue to kill and maim thousands of people every year. Computer vision is helping researchers figure out where these dormant weapons are likely to be.

April 1, 20202 min read
Voice Cloning for the Masses: An AI project clones cartoon character voices.
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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.
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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.
Tech & Society

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.
Tech & Society

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
Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
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Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
AI’s Gender Imbalance: The data behind deep learning's gender gap
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AI’s Gender Imbalance: The data behind deep learning's gender gap

Women continue to be severely underrepresented in AI. A meta-analysis of research conducted by Synced Review for Women’s History Month found that female participation in various aspects of AI typically hovers between 10 and 20 percent.

March 25, 20202 min read
AI’s Gender Imbalance: The data behind deep learning's gender gap
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AI’s Gender Imbalance: The data behind deep learning's gender gap

Women continue to be severely underrepresented in AI. A meta-analysis of research conducted by Synced Review for Women’s History Month found that female participation in various aspects of AI typically hovers between 10 and 20 percent.

March 25, 20202 min read
Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
Tech & Society

Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.
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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
Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.
Tech & Society

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
Workers Get the Jump on Automation: How the Philippines prepared its workforce for automation
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Workers Get the Jump on Automation: How the Philippines prepared its workforce for automation

Businesses around the world outsource their customer service work to the Philippines. Now the Philippines is preparing its workers to outsource some tasks to AI.

March 18, 20201 min read
Workers Get the Jump on Automation: How the Philippines prepared its workforce for automation
Tech & Society

Workers Get the Jump on Automation: How the Philippines prepared its workforce for automation

Businesses around the world outsource their customer service work to the Philippines. Now the Philippines is preparing its workers to outsource some tasks to AI.

March 18, 20201 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
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AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
Tech & Society

AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read

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