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MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents based on topic

Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data Processing Group devised a technique that combines popular AI tools including embeddings and optimal transport. They say that their…
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AI Weekly: Machine learning’s role in climate change

Climate change is the most existential threat humanity faces today, and AI can solve problems in unprecedented ways. It only makes sense that we use the latter to work on the former. That was a significant sub-theme of NeurIPS 2019, highlighted in particular by the Tackling…
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Amazon’s AI creates synthesized singers

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…
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Honda will show off its in-car AI assistant at CES

At CES 2020, Honda says it will finally show off its long-promised in-car personal assistant. The automaker has been working on its own digital helper since 2018 when it announced a partnership with SoundHound. Aside from the usual claims of “unprecedented” speed and accuracy, the company doesn’t say too much about how the tool compares to AI like Google Assistant and Siri. It…
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YouTube's series on AI with Robert Downey Jr. is finally available

If you’ve ever had a question about artificial intelligence or how it works, YouTube’s latest Originals series, The Age of A.I., tries to answer those questions. The new eight-part show, which is available to watch today after a lengthy wait, features Robert Downey Jr. as he attempts to demystify terms like machine learning and computer vision while showing off some of the latest…
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Quips is an AI to help ALS patients speak with their own voice

One of the most devastating outcomes of motor neuron disease (MND), more commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US, is that it eventually takes away the ability of those who have it to speak. But like it promises to do in a lot of other areas, artificial intelligence could soon help MND patients better cope with their condition thanks to a new tool developed by Rolls-Royce and…
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