Daily Archives: May 5, 2021
Podcast: AI finds its voice
Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human.br>
Today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines we’ve been musing about for decades. And it’s because that technology is actually the combination of three different skills: speech recognition, natural language processing, and voice generation.
Each of these skills already presents huge challenges. In order to master just the natural language processing part, you pretty much have to re-create human-level intelligence. Deep learning, the technology driving the current AI boom, can train machines to become masters at all sorts of tasks. But it can only learn one at a time. And because most AI models train their skill set on thousands or millions of existing examples, they end up replicating patterns within historical data—including the many bad decisions people have made, like marginalizing people of color and women. Read More
The Dawn of the Quantum Internet
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020
Webspam Report 2020
Google Search is a powerful tool to help you find useful information on the open web. Unfortunately, not all web pages are created with good intent. Many of them are explicitly created to deceive people, and that is something we fight against every day. To ensure your safety and protect your search experience against disruptive content and malicious behaviors, Search has invested in many innovations in 2020.
The result is that very little spam actually makes it into the top results anyone sees for a search, thanks to our automated systems that are aided by AI. We estimated that these automated systems help keep more than 99% of visits from Search completely spam-free. Read More
Microsoft Releases Open Source ‘Counterfit’ Tool for Attacking AI Systems
Microsoft on Monday announced the release of Counterfit as an open source project on GitHub, permitting organizations to test the security of their artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions by attacking them.
Counterfit is a command-line interface tool for conducting automated attacks at scale on AI systems. Microsoft built it as part of its own “red team” attack testing efforts. Organizations can use this tool to attempt to try to “evade and steal AI models,” Microsoft indicated. It has a logging capability that provides “telemetry” information, which can be used to understand AI model failures. Read More
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