AI & Robotics

AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. But relatively few have been tuned to singing synthesis, or the task of cloning the voices of musicians. Researchers from Amazon and Cambridge put their collective minds to the challenge in a recent paper, in which they propose an AI system that…

Presented by Deloitte Consulting LLP So, you know about the benefits of AI for business — how it can reduce time spent on manual tasks, improve data-driven decision-making, and allow humans to focus on strategic business initiatives. But have you considered AI for social impact? Initiatives like IBM’s Science for Social Good, in which the company partnered with 19 NGO and government agencies…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) — two-part AI systems consisting of generators that create samples and that attempt to distinguish between the generated samples and real-world samples — have countless uses, and one of them is producing synthetic data. Researchers at Uber recently leveraged this in a paper titled “Accelerating Neural Architecture Search by Learning,” which proposes…

Small businesses are generally unprepared for unforeseen catastrophes, surveys show. A whopping three-fourths of U.S.-based outfits say they don’t have an insurance policy that meets their unique needs, while 40% admit they don’t have coverage of any kind. Of course, the latter are on the hook for incidents like client complaints, contract disputes, and employee injuries, in addition to…