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AI Weekly: Animal Crossing, ICLR, and the future of research conferences online

This week, the world’s machine learning community got a good look at what digital research conferences will look like in a post-coronavirus future, as ICLR kicked off what’s believed to be the first major AI research conference held entirely online. The conference was initially scheduled to be held in person in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)…
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OpenAI’s Jukebox AI produces music in any style from scratch — complete with lyrics

OpenAI today released Jukebox, a machine learning framework that generates music — including rudimentary songs — as raw audio in a range of genres and musical styles. Provided with a genre, artist, and lyrics as input, Jukebox outputs a new music sample produced from scratch. The code and model are available on GitHub, along with a tool to explore the generated samples. Jukebox might not be…
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Duolingo’s AI drives its English proficiency tests

Language learning startup Duolingo leverages AI and machine learning to create and score English proficiency tests automatically, reveals a paper published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. In it, researchers peel back the curtains…
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Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions

Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge — Read to Fight Monsters (RTFM) — in a paper that the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020 accepted. RTFM tasks an AI agent plopped in a procedurally generated environment to learn the dynamics by reading a…
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Google Duplex now speaks Spanish, starts calling businesses in Spain to update hours

Google today launched Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, in Spain to automate the updating of business hours across Google Search and Google Maps. For the first time, it’s speaking in Spanish — Duplex previously only spoke in English. The expansion follows a pilot in New New Zealand and Duplex’s quiet expansion to the U.K., Australia, and Canada.
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