Researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) recently made an unexpected discovery while trying to improve chatbots. The bots — known as “dialog agents” — were creating their own language — well, kinda. Using machine learning ... (more…)

A about a year ago I read two blog posts about generating fonts with deep learning;one by Erik Bernhardsson and TJ Torres at StitchFix. Inspired by their work I figured that I wanted to give fonts a go as well, so I set up a variational autoencoder* that ... (more…)

Explosive growth in big data technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) applications have led to increasing pervasiveness of information facets and… (more…)

Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they're likely going to get a lot worse this year. (more…)

AI for live video is an emerging area that interests me. (I spent five years working with live video streams at my prior startup.) The… (more…)