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How AI and ML innovations are driving the need for hardware transformation (VB Live)

December 23, 2020
Presented by SambaNova Systems To stay on top of cutting-edge AI innovation, it’s time to upgrade your technology stack. In this VB Live event, you’ll learn how innovations in NLP, visual AI, recommendation models, and scientific computing are pushing computer architecture to the cutting edge. Access free on demand here. Innovations in AI and machine learning demand more compute power than…
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An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube

December 23, 2020
Even the most dedicated musicians have to put down their instruments sometimes, but on YouTube, you can listen to a bass solo that keeps going and going. Dadabots, which is also behind an endless death metal stream, used a recurrent neural network (RNN) to create a YouTube stream featuring an infinite bass solo. The Dadabots team, CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, trained the RNN with two hours of bass…
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RingCentral acquires conversational AI startup DeepAffects

December 21, 2020
RingCentral, a company that creates cloud-based communication and collaboration tools for the enterprise, has acquired conversational AI intelligence startup DeepAffects. Founded in 2003, Belmont, California-based RingCentral develops a range of cloud products for businesses, including contact center software, business phone and messaging systems, video conferencing, and more. As with other…
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How to create space for ethics in AI

December 19, 2020
In a year that has seen decades’ worth of global shocks, bad news, and scandals squeezed into 12 excruciatingly long months, the summer already feels like a distant memory. In August 2020, the world was in the throes of a major social and racial justice movement, and I…
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AI Weekly: Facebook’s news summarization tool reeks of bad intentions

December 19, 2020
This week, BuzzFeed News, citing sources familiar with the matter, wrote that Facebook is developing an AI tool that summarizes news articles so that users don’t have to read them. The tool — codenamed “TLDR” in reference to the acronym “too long, didn’t read” — reportedly reduces articles to bullet points and provides narration, as well as a virtual assistant to answer…
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