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 A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speak...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…)

Marble recently made news for deploying food delivery robots onto the streets of San Francisco. Kevin Peterson, Marble’s co-founder and software lead, joine... (more…)

A Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept envisions a dystopian future for global megacities as populations in the developing world shift from rural to dense urban environments. Although the problems discussed are politically and socially complex,...

The long-standing dream of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build an artificial brain has taken a significant step forward, as a team led by Professor Newton Howard from the University of Oxford has successfully prototyped a nanoscale, AI-powered, ar... (more…)

Pyro is an open source probabilistic programming language that unites modern deep learning with Bayesian modeling for a tool-first approach to AI. (more…)