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Volley’s Magic Word is a voice-based puzzle game on Google Assistant

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Volley has embraced the new kind of gameplay possible with voice-based games, and today it’s introducing Magic Word, an immersive puzzle game on Google Assistant. This means you can play it on devices that support Google Assistant’s voice recognition technology, such as Google Assistant Smart Displays and the Google…
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OpenAI Codex shows the limits of large language models

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. In a new paper, researchers at OpenAI have revealed details about Codex, a deep learning model that generates software source code. Codex powers Copilot, an “AI pair programmer” tool developed…
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Natural language understanding tough for neural networks

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. One of the dominant trends of artificial intelligence in the past decade has been to solve problems by creating ever-larger deep learning models. And nowhere is this trend more evident than in natural language processing, one of the most challenging areas of AI. In recent years, researchers have shown that adding…
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Hungryroot delivers AI-powered grocery experience

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. There’s Netflix for movies. Stitch Fix for clothes. Hungryroot, an AI-powered delivery service, hopes to occupy a similar niche for online groceries in the United States. The recommender system…
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OpenAI disbands its robotics research team

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team after years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like solving a Rubik’s Cube. Company cofounder Wojciech Zaremba quietly revealed on a podcast hosted by startup Weights & Biases that OpenAI has shifted its focus to other domains, where data is more…
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What to do when AI brings more questions than answers

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The concept of uncertainty in the context of AI can be difficult to grasp at first. At a high level, uncertainty means working with imperfect or incomplete information, but there are countless different potential sources of uncertainty. Some, like missing information, unreliable information, conflicting information…
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