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…)

语音识别真的比肩人类了吗？各种算法之间该如何选择？如何提升语音交互的用户体验？带着这些问题，云栖社区采访了阿里云iDST智能交互总监初敏，听听她是怎么说的。... (more…)

AI may destroy jobs but will create many more and increase productivity, said the chess grandmaster. (more…)

Ray Kurzweilm, Director of Engineering at Google, famous inventor, author of How to Create a Mind. A world-class prolific inventor and leading futurist autho... (more…)

Imagine an innovation in pipes. If this innovation were general, something that made all kinds of pipes cheaper to build and maintain, the total benefits could be large, perhaps even comparable to the total amount we spend on pipes today. (Or even much la...