May 22, 2019
Retailers are expected to more than triple their outlay for AI over the next few years. A new report from Juniper Research estimates that global retailers will spend $12 billion on AI services by 2023, up from $3.6 billion in 2019.
May 22, 2019
Systems that translate between spoken languages typically take the intermediate step of translating speech into text. A new approach shows that neural networks can translate speech directly without first representing the words as text.
May 22, 2019
The tide of AI-driven fakery rose higher around the Internet’s ankles as the synthesized voice of comedian/podcaster Joe Rogan announced his purported formation of a hockey team made up of chimpanzees.
May 22, 2019
Unfounded worries over malevolent machines awakening into sentience seem to be receding. But fears of face recognition erupted last week — the rumblings of a gathering anti-surveillance movement.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about "small data." If you have an image classification problem and 1,000,000 images, then dozens of teams around the world can build a good classifier.
May 15, 2019
A lawsuit in London could set precedents for how to allocate responsibility when algorithms make poor predictions.
May 15, 2019
Corporate executives worldwide are gearing up to take advantage of AI. But those in different countries aim to use the technology differently, and they bring different hopes and fears.
May 15, 2019
Wish you could draw, but your elephants look like crocodiles? Sketchforme doesn’t have that problem. This AI agent roughs out simple scenes based on text descriptions.
May 15, 2019
Machine learning systems are infamous for making predictions that can’t readily be explained. Now Microsoft offers an open source tool kit providing a variety of ways to interrogate models.
May 15, 2019
Larger neural networks can deliver better results, yet researchers found a way to make deep learning models perform just as well at one-tenth the size. Their work was awarded best paper at this year's International Conference on Learning Representations.
May 15, 2019
Data wranglers have tried bulking up training data sets with synthetically generated images, but such input often fails to capture real-world variety. Researchers propose a way to generate labeled data for visual tasks that aims to bring synthetic and real worlds into closer alignment.
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A first for my three-month-old daughter Nova: an outing to the park. As my mother and I watched her staring at a tree. I realized what a novel experience it must be to see a tree close-up for the first time.