An automatic-speech-recognition system — such as Alexa’s — converts speech into text, and one of its key components is its language model. Given a sequence of words, the language model computes the probability that any given word is the next one. For instance, a language model would predict that a sentence that begins “Toni Morrison won the Nobel” is more likely to conclude “Prize” than “dries”. Language models can thus help decide between competing interpretations of the same acoustic information.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 5: Out of the lab
The ambition of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world.Read More
Episode 5: Out of the lab
Hannah Fry meets the scientists building systems that could be used to save the sight of thousands; help us solve one of the most fundamental problems in biology, and reduce energy consumption in an effort to combat climate change.Read More
Neural TTS Makes Speech Synthesizers More Versatile
A text-to-speech system, which converts written text into synthesized speech, is what allows Alexa to respond verbally to requests or commands…Read More
Advancing AI: A Conversation with Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager at Uber
The past few months have been a whirlwind for Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager at Uber and a founding member of Uber AI Labs. In June 2019, research by him and his collaborators on POET, an algorithm …
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The Podcast: Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call ‘embodied AI’: robot arms that are learning tasks like picking up plastic bricks, which humans find comparatively easy.Read More
Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMinds robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call embodied AI.Read More
The Podcast: Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraft II – a challenging video game that requires players to control the onscreen action with as many as 800 clicks a minute.Read More
Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. Why?Read More
The Podcast: Episode 2: Go to Zero
In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to be a decade ahead of its time.Read More