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The promise of voice AI in game development

September 14, 2020
AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology. What started as simple text-to-speech (TTS), combined with hundreds of hours of recorded dialog, has evolved into more natural-sounding AI voices, synthesized from just a couple hours of audio. You can check out realistic voices audio sample here and here. These are samples from Replica…
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Gary Marcus: COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI

September 12, 2020
The global pandemic has been cited as a “wake-up call” for many things — the environment, economic and social rights, and general global inequalities. However, scientist, author, and entrepreneur Gary Marcus thinks that the COVID-19 crisis should also be considered a…
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Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery

September 11, 2020
AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession on record since the Great Depression. It’s that dual promise and peril that led members of the House Budget Committee to hold a hearing today in Congress to discuss the impact of AI on economic recovery, the future of work, and the…
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Cruise’s AI enables driverless vehicles to navigate uncommon scenarios

September 11, 2020
Driverless startup Cruise today detailed a homegrown tool — the Continuous Learning Machine — that tackles on-the-road prediction tasks. Cruise claims the Continuous Learning Machine, which automatically labels and mines training data, allows some of the AI models guiding Cruise’s self-driving cars to predict things like whether bicycles will swerve into traffic or kids will run into…
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How AI is impacting customer experience in fintech (VB Live)

September 9, 2020
Presented by DefinedCrowd Companies like MasterCard are implementing AI strategies that transform how customer experience is done. Join MasterCard Lab’s VP of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and others for insights on why AI is essential for fintech companies now, and developing an AI strategy going forward.  Register here for free. Winning customer loyalty requires an…
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