New Google AI Mimics Human Speech to Near Perfection
ELOCUTION LESSONS Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) research company DeepMind shared details on WaveNet, a deep neural network used to synthesize realistic human speech. Now, an improved version of the technology is being rolled out for use with Google Assistant. A system for speech synthesis – otherwise known as text-to-speech (TTS) – typically utilizes one of two techniques. Concatenative TTS … Continue reading
AI Will Be Able to Detect Your Politics and IQ Using Face-Reading Technology
I just hope they don’t make this technology readily available to consumers in a portable format; imagine people running around detecting other people’s IQ and political views, it could be both funny and dangerous. via The Guardian Professor whose study suggested technology can detect whether a person is gay or straight says programs will soon reveal traits such as criminal … Continue reading
Professors Warn Humans Becoming Less Involved In Decision Making Because of Tech And It’s NOT Great
Scholars create program to test software for bias and discrimination In the future, your future might depend on a series of carefully calculated zeros and ones. As technology improves, humans become less involved in decisions that affect our lives — and that isn’t exactly a good thing. As artificial intelligence gains ground, college professors at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have … Continue reading
Facebook AI Invents A Language Only They Can Understand, Experiment Shut Down
This story is not new but seems to be making the rounds again so we figured we’d share another recent version in case you missed it. If you’d like to check out the one we ran a little while back here it is: AI Chatbots Invented A Creepy Non-Human Language On Their Own via unexplained-mysteries: Facebook was forced to shut … Continue reading
AI Chatbots Invented A Creepy Non-Human Language On Their Own
I’m not sure how this isn’t bigger news, this is as CREEPY and as scary as it get’s (though I must admit very intriguing and fascinating at the same time). You will see later on in the article an actual AI “conversation” exchange, if you’re not a little freaked out by then you probably aren’t really getting the scope of … Continue reading
Beyond VR, This Ambitious UK Group Wants to Build the Matrix
Improbable just became the UK’s latest $1billion tech startup. The inside story of its insanely ambitious plan to built virtual worlds, change the way we make decisions, and maybe one day build the Matrix. It might not be as well known as VR headset developer Oculus or AI company DeepMind, but Improbable’s goals are perhaps the most ambitious of them … Continue reading
There’s a Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence: No One Really Understands How it Works
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn’t follow … Continue reading
Just like Humans, Artificial Intelligence Can Learn Racism Too
When Microsoft released an artificially intelligent chatbot named Tay on Twitter last March, things took a predictably disastrous turn. Within 24 hours, the bot was spewing racist, neo-Nazi rants, much of which it picked up by incorporating the language of Twitter users who interacted with it. Unfortunately, new research finds that Twitter trolls aren’t the only way that AI devices … Continue reading
Researchers Hold a Scary AI Doomsday Workshop
We’re talking about malware on steroids that is AI-enabled. That’s just one description – and a mild one at that – of the doomsday scenarios played out, analyzed and discussed in a game format at the “Great Debate: The Future of Artificial Intelligence – Who’s in Control?” held last weekend at Arizona State University. About 40 scientists, cyber-security experts and … Continue reading
Will human intelligence be Replaced by Evolving Artificial Intelligence?
Did you know about the emerging Artificial Intelligence? Its going to shape the future of our Collective Intelligence. Two months back I sat for the lecture of Dr. Scott Lee (Professor of Endocrinology, Linda University in the United states). He explained his crew’s invention of the artificial pancreas which could achieve the target Hb1Ac of 6.9 mg/dl which is one … Continue reading
