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Google’s highly scalable AI can generate convincingly humanlike speech

September 30, 2019
A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a versatile AI architecture type that’s exceptionally well-suited to synthesizing images, videos, and text from limited data. But it’s not much been applied to the audio production domain owing to a number of design challenges, which is why Google and Imperial College London researchers set out to create a GAN-based text-to-speech system capable of…
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Google Assistant is now available for most Chromebooks

September 29, 2019
Google has started rolling out Chrome OS 77, and it makes Assistant widely available to the devices the platform powers. The voice AI used to be a Pixel exclusive, though adventurous users have been able to switch it on as a hidden feature for a while if they’re in one of Chrome OS’ beta channels. The platform’s latest version makes Assistant available “on most…
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Google’s robotic hand AI can learn to rotate Baoding balls with minimal training data

September 27, 2019
Using several fingers at once to grasp and manipulate objects is a straightforward ask of humans, despite the primitiveness of our hand anatomy. But robots have a much tougher go of it. That’s because tasks like writing on paper with a pencil require physics models directing the imparting of forces onto the target object, as well as the repeated establishing and breaking of contacts. And with…
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Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’

September 27, 2019
NSFW: This article may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often…
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Hugging Face launches popular Transformers NLP library for TensorFlow

September 27, 2019
Maker of the popular PyTorch-Transformers model library, Hugging Face today said it’s bringing its NLP library to the TensorFlow machine learning framework. The PyTorch version of the library has seen more than 500,000 Pip installs since the beginning of the year, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told VentureBeat. The Transformers library for TensorFlow brings together the most advanced…
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