Originally published in WIRED.com, March 14, 2017. When DeepMind burst into prominent view in 2014 it taught its machine learning systems how to play Atari games. The system could learn to defeat the games, and score higher than humans, but not remember how it had done so. For each of the Atari games, a separate neural network
Originally published in Meta AI, May 22, 2023. Equipping machines with the ability to recognize and produce speech can make information accessible to many more people, including those who rely entirely on voice to access information. However,...