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
Monthly Archives: May 2021
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
Using AI to Track How Customers Feel — In Real Time
The most common methods of tracking customer sentiments has a big blind spot: They can’t pick up on important emotional responses. As a result, qualitative surveys, like Net Promoter Score, end up missing critically important feedback. Even if they provide a positive score, customers often reveal their true thoughts and feelings in the open-ended comment boxes typically provided at the end of surveys, and AI can help companies make use of this valuable data to better predict customer behavior. Specifically, there are six benefits for adopting AI to analyze this feedback: It can 1) show you what you’re missing in your qualitative surveys, 2) help train your employees based on what’s actually important to customers, 3) determine root causes of problems, 4) capture customers’ responses in real time, 5) spot and prevent declines in sales, and 6) prioritize actions to improve customer experience. Read More
A company is using artificial intelligence to insert new products and ads into content, including old movies
Mirriad uses AI technology to insert products and ads into new and old content, posing a threat to traditional advertising. The technology identifies places within content where ads or products could be inserted, as well as where the viewer’s attention drifts within any given still. It’s the in-content solution for the Chinese giant Tencent and plans to work with streaming platforms, where it could provide a solution for advertisers to make revenue amid a widespread shift to streaming. Read More
Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual Learning
Avalanche is an End-to-End Continual Learning Library based on PyTorch, born within ContinualAI with the unique goal of providing a shared and collaborative open-source (MIT licensed) codebase for fast prototyping, training and reproducible evaluation of continual learning algorithms.
Avalanche can help Continual Learning researchers and practitioners in several ways:
- Write less code, prototype faster & reduce errors
- Improve reproducibility
- Improve modularity and reusability
- Increase code efficiency, scalability & portability
- Augment impact and usability of your research products
Winning with AI is a state of mind
Companies capturing lasting value from artificial intelligence think differently, from the C-suite to the front line. Here’s how to make the shift from opportunistic efforts to a truly AI-enabled organization.
Executives have seen that the move from running artificial intelligence (AI) experiments and proofs of concept to capturing lasting value at scale requires an investment in strong foundations. These include aligning AI with core areas of the business; embracing important cultural and organizational shifts; and investing in new kinds of technology, training, and processes for building AI.
More and more organizations are adopting these basic practices, and those that do tend to report the highest bottom-line impact from AI. But successful organizations don’t just behave differently; our experience in thousands of client engagements around analytics and AI over the past five years shows that they also think differently about AI. At these companies, AI is etched in the collective mindset (“We are AI enabled”), rather than simply applied opportunistically (“Here’s a use case where AI can add value”). Read More
AI dubbing is coming for feature films
Israel-based AI dubbing startup Deepdub is going longform: The company has struck a deal with New York’s MiLa Media to localize the studio’s feature film “Every Time I Die,” which currently streams in English on Netflix, for the Americas. Deepdub will use its AI voice synthesis technology to dub the film in Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and the resulting versions will feature voices that sound just like those of the original actors. Read More
Tech giant Eric Schmidt warns China is catching up to U.S. in AI
In this episode of “Intelligence Matters,” National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Chair and Former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt joins Michael Morell to discuss the importance of investing in artificial intelligence as a national security priority. Schmidt believes China is likely to catch up to the U.S. in a few years in its artificial intelligence capabilities. He outlines how intelligence and national defense can benefit from superiority in these technologies and the benefits of holding A.I. to American values. Read More
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