Tech & Society
AI Makes Headlines: Primer introduces an automated headline generator.
Which headline was written by a computer? A: FIFA to Decide on 2022 World Cup in March B: Decision in March on 48-team 2022 World Cup, Says Infantino
Generative Modeling
Tech & Society
Monsters in Motion: Source of Madness is an AI-powered Lovecraftian nightmare.
How do you control a video game that generates a host of unique monsters for every match? With machine learning, naturally. The otherworldly creatures in Source of Madness learn how to target players through reinforcement learning.
Tech & Society
Photos From Before Photos Existed: How Artbreeder generates AI images of historical figures
An artist is using deep learning to create realistic portraits of historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte, Vincent Van Gogh, and England’s first Queen Elizabeth.
Tech & Society
Image Resolution in Black and White: Behind the Pulse controversy about bias in machine learning
A new model designed to sharpen images tends to turn some dark faces white, igniting fresh furor over bias in machine learning. Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration (Pulse) generates high-resolution versions of low-resolution images.
Machine Learning Research
Clothes Make the Model: Amazon's Outfit-Viton generates apparel images on demand.
In online retailing, the most common customer complaints are slow shipping and inability to try on clothes. Amazon conceived its Prime program to address the first concern. To answer the second, it built a virtual fitting room.
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Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.
Tech & Society
Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.
Business
Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.
Will reading soon become obsolete? A new system converts text articles into videos. VidPress, a prototype project from Chinese tech giant Baidu, currently generates more than 1,000 narrated video summaries of news stories daily.
Machine Learning Research
Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot
Facebook recently rolled out its entry in the World’s Biggest Chatbot sweepstakes. In keeping with the company’s social-networking dominance, the bot is designed to excel at chitchat on any subject.
Machine Learning Research
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.
Tech & Society
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”
Tech & Society
Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music
A new generative model croons like Elvis and raps like Eminem. It might even make you think you’re listening to a lost demo by the Beatles. OpenAI released Jukebox, a deep learning system that has generated thousands of songs in styles from country to metal and soul.