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…)

"This technology at the airport... is premature. It’s not the right way to go."... (more…)

Geoffrey Hinton expresses doubts about neural training method... (more…)

Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence division Google DeepMind is making the maze-like game platform it uses for many of its experiments available to other researchers and the general public.

Perhaps you heard about Tay, Microsoft’s experimental Twitter chat-bot, and how within a day it became so offensive that Microsoft had to shut it down and never speak of it again. And you ass… (more…)