Category: Computers
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Computers listening to humans. Humans becoming like computers…
Speech recognition software isn’t perfect, but it is a little closer to human this week, as a Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research team reached a major milestone in speech-to-text development: The system reached a historically low word error rate of 5.9 percent, equal to the accuracy of a professional (human) transcriptionist. The system can discern…
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Computers speaking like humans? Irrelevant.
Google’s DeepMind AI is learning how to talk. And learning how to do it like a person, not a computer. DeepMind has many learning projects going on right now, but the newest one to catch our ears seems to be an increasingly realistic voice and speech pattern system that eliminates more and more of the…
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Computers. The new religion. (and the new journalists) [OR: Who needs journalists?]
An experiment recently conducted by LMU media researchers suggests that readers like to read texts generated by computers, especially when they are unaware that what they are reading was assembled on the basis of an algorithm. In the study, 986 subjects were asked to read and evaluate online news stories. Articles which the participants believed…
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Chess: random wise moves. Not possible. From a computer anyway. [OR: The futility of artificial intelligence]
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. At the beginning of the second game the computer made…
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Humans vs. Computers: Does it matter?
A machine beating a human champion in Go. (1) We keep on choosing to fight the wrong battles. And that is why we will always lose… Try choosing a different path. Unplug the computer. Go for a walk. Listen to the birds singing. Feel your victory deep inside your soul…
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