How do you know I am really a human writing this article and not a robot? Several major publications are picking up machine learning tools for content. So, what does artificial intelligence mean for the future of journalists? According to Matt Carlson, author of "The Robotic Reporter", the algorithm converts data into narrative news text in real-time. Many of these being financially focused news stories since the data is calculated and released frequently.

Artisans may have thought that, unlike many other markets, there was no avenue for machines to take over their ethereal reins. After all, something soulless doesn't have the most important component for creation of artistic expression: Human emotion. But arts fields from culinary to fine art, to dance, theater, and film, have all made advancements in incorporating machine learning in their crafts. PUTTING THE AI IN PAINT Recently, the first piece of credited AI artwork, a painting titled "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy" was auctioned off by Christie's for over $430,000. The painting, that resembles a man dressed in a dark frock coat, was set in motion by software developer and "Robot Artist" Jeremy Krabil.

"The financial markets are ahead of others in this," said John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg. In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times. MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Jonathan Davis hit for the cycle, as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats topped the Portland Sea Dogs 10-3 on Tuesday. Last week, The Guardian's Australia edition published its first machine-assisted article, an account of annual political donations to the country's political parties. And Forbes recently announced that it was testing a tool called Bertie to provide reporters with rough drafts and story templates.

"I wish I know what is running through my customer's mind" Every business owner hoards this secret wish. No matter how detailed your market research is, what the experts say or what your gut feeling says, the customer's mind is still a black box that cannot be easily cracked. All black boxes can be decrypted and their contents can be brought to daylights for broad inspection. Just that you need the right toolkit to do it. The ground zero for any consumer behaviour study is one thing - why do people buy the stuff they do?

This paper proposes a generative moment matching network (GMMN)-based post-filter that provides inter-utterance pitch variation for deep neural network (DNN)-based singing voice synthesis. The natural pitch variation of a human singing voice leads to a richer musical experience and is used in double-tracking, a recording method in which two performances of the same phrase are recorded and mixed to create a richer, layered sound. However, singing voices synthesized using conventional DNN-based methods never vary because the synthesis process is deterministic and only one waveform is synthesized from one musical score. To address this problem, we use a GMMN to model the variation of the modulation spectrum of the pitch contour of natural singing voices and add a randomized inter-utterance variation to the pitch contour generated by conventional DNN-based singing voice synthesis. Experimental evaluations suggest that 1) our approach can provide perceptible inter-utterance pitch variation while preserving speech quality. We extend our approach to double-tracking, and the evaluation demonstrates that 2) GMMN-based neural double-tracking is perceptually closer to natural double-tracking than conventional signal processing-based artificial double-tracking is.

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Franz Schubert composed his Symphony No.8 in 1822, but never completed it, making only two movements along with an outline of a third. Nearly 200 years later, Huawei, Emmy-awarding composer Lucas Cantor, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) inside the Mate 20 Pro smartphone have done what the renowned composer didn't. They've finished the unfinished symphony. The project is a continued illustration of not only the power of Huawei's Kirin 980 processor and Dual-Neural Processing Unit (NPU) artificial intelligence accelerator, but also the potential for using A.I. in varied creative projects. We're familiar with A.I. modes on smartphone cameras, and Huawei has previously demonstrated the power and speed of its A.I. in a self-driving car, where a phone was used to identify and help avoid obstacles.

Researchers from Columbia University used deep learning to enhance speech neuroprothesis technologies, that can result in accurate and intelligible reconstructed speech from the human auditory cortex. This research has the potential to one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak, communicate with their loved ones. "Our approach takes a step toward the next generation of human-computer interaction systems and more natural communication channels for patients suffering from paralysis and locked-in syndromes," the researchers stated in their paper. The findings were published this week in Scientific Reports this week. "Our voices help connect us to our friends, family and the world around us, which is why losing the power of one's voice due to injury or disease is so devastating," said Nima Mesgarani, the paper's senior author and a principal investigator at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute."With We've shown that, with the right technology, these people's thoughts could be decoded and understood by any listener."

Coachella headliner Childish Gambino is down to dance with anyone, anywhere at any time. From today, an interactive Playmoji (i.e. an AR sticker) based on him is available in Google Pixel's Playground mode, which is built into the camera. The Playmoji can dance to three of Childish Gambino's biggest hits, "Redbone," "Summertime Magic" and "This is America," and it works in both rear-camera and selfie modes. Google worked with Childish Gambino and his choreographer to make sure the dance moves were authentic, while the Playmoji can even respond to your facial expressions. Google rebranded AR stickers as Playground in October at its Pixel 3 launch event.