Tiny movements in Earth’s outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting these long-hidden microquakes in the growing mountain ... (more…)

I’m thrilled to announce I am joining Woebot’s board of directors as its Chairman. I will be assisting its CEO, Alison Darcy, and the company in its mission to build a chatbot that will help the… (more…)

In September last year, Google's cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to. (more…)

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks. (more…)

We present a new neural text to speech method that is able to transform text to speech in voices that are sampled in the wild. Unlike other text to speech systems, our solution is able to deal with unconstrained samples obtained from public speeches. The ... (more…)