Companies are buying increasingly intrusive artificial intelligence tools to keep an eye on their workers. (more…)

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…)

Instead of the AI responding to voice and video, it was fed text prompts and still images. (more…)

Rival AI research groups are jostling to be the makers of the first program to beat professional poker players.

Large companies including Google and Air Canada are sponsoring the Vector Institute, which intends to retain and repatriate the AI talent Canada is already producing. (more…)