Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
Facebook once piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint...
UC Berkeley’s Niloufar Salehi on restorative justice in social media
Victims of stalking, harassment, hate, election interference, and other abuses have for years argued that we need to rethink the way social media functions....
Carnegie Mellon researchers use Twitch to collect sounds for AI research
Carnegie Mellon researchers have designed a livestreaming video game that collects audio from players to populate a database for AI research. The team’s game...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
In a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, DeepMind researchers describe a reinforcement learning algorithm-generating technique that discovers what to predict and how...
Facebook advances VR rendering quality with neural 4×4 supersampling
Rendering 3D graphics for the latest high-resolution displays has never been an easy task, and the challenge level increases multiple times for VR headsets...
Researchers combine reinforcement learning and NLP to escape a Grue monster
AI researchers from Georgia Tech and Microsoft Research created AI that combines reinforcement learning and natural language processing (NLP) to outperform state-of-the-art question-answering AI...
Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack
Facebook researchers believe the game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. Today, they released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research...
Google builds AI agent that learns to generalize to new environments by ignoring distractions
In a study earlier this year accepted to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020, Google researchers investigate the properties of AI software...
Google Assistant actions can now continuously listen for specific words
Google today detailed new tools for partners developing on Google Assistant, its voice platform used by over 500 million people monthly in 30 languages...