Pope Francis recently devoted his monthly prayer intention to the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence. Though the prayer was expressed primarily in terms of reducing inequality, a theme this Pope has touched on often, its final plea... (more…)

In February, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab published Deep Voice 1, a system for generating synthetic human voices entirely with deep neural networks. Unlike alternative neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems, Deep Voice 1 runs in real-time, synthesizing audio ... (more…)

Artificial Intelligence Scientist. Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA, DTI, SUPSI; Prof. of AI, Faculty of Informatics, USI, Lugano; Co-founder &... (more…)

Today on War Stories, Ars Technica is joined by Dan Greenawalt, Creative Director of the Forza franchise, who takes us through the colossal potential (and ma... (more…)

Origami Studio 3, the latest version of Facebook’s free design prototyping tool, makes designing user interfaces and interactions easier than ever... (more…)