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 A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speak...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

Beijing-based Megvii, which is known for its facial recognition platform Face++, aims to be the first Chinese AI company to go public. (more…)

The Finnish computer scientist says he has solved AI's fundamental problem: how to make machines that plan... (more…)

A pair of 'chatbots' in China have been taken offline after appearing to stray off-script. In response to users' questions, one said its dream was to travel to the United States, while the other said it wasn't a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party. (more…)

Researchers from NVIDIA recently published a paper detailing their new methodology for generative adversarial networks (GANs) that generated photorealistic pictures of fake celebrities. (more…)