Humans have officially given their voice to machines. A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speak... (more…)
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Graphcore Poplar software framework images of machine learning executed as a graph on the IPU Intelligent Processing Unit. Graph computing explained visually... (more…)
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In which I discuss the ridiculous media narrative spun around a single sentence from an otherwise perfectly normal AI research paper. Featuring quite a few o... (more…)
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A 2020 review guide of latest advancements in video streaming technology with AI, CMAF, P2P, Per-title Encoding, Multi-CDN, Super-Resolution. (more…)
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A Black teenager in the US was barred from entering a roller rink after a facial-recognition system wrongly identified her as a person who had been previously banned for starting a fight there. (more…)
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