It is inspired by the Location-Sensitive attention applied in Tacotron. However, that kind of mechanism is not well suited to generalize over long utterances. It means, we can synthesize texts up to the longest sentence in the data set which poses a major limitation. For example if we synthesize very long texts, the synthesized audio after some point consists only of repetitions and gibberish voice. With the newly invented Dynamic Convolution Attention (DCA) this is no longer a case. We can train with a data sets with relatively short utterances and still synthesize very long texts, without any significant loss.

Strong writing can determine whether a Hollywood show turns out like Game of Thrones or Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure. That's why Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment has opened an incubator for writers called Imagine Impact. The film and TV industries employ 2.6 million people in the U.S. alone, and those businesses generate $177 billion a year in wages. But surfacing new writers can be a haphazard process. Imagine Impact, the division of a film production company with dozens of Oscar-nominated films, wants to create a pipeline of strong writers.

Less than 10% … that's how many artificial-intelligence test projects are estimated to be deployed into full-scale production in enterprise environments …

Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail says portraying Elliot (Rami Malek) in a hooded sweatshirt was a deliberate choice: "That hoodie made us closer to who Elliot was." Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail says portraying Elliot (Rami Malek) in a hooded sweatshirt was a deliberate choice: "That hoodie made us closer to who Elliot was." Editor's note: This interview contains a racial slur. Sam Esmail, the creator, lead writer and director of the TV series Mr. Robot, has always identified with computer programming and hacker culture -- in part because of his experiences with social anxiety. In college, he shied away from parties and instead took refuge in the computer lab. It felt safer to talk to people online than in person, Esmail says.

Yamaha's self-playing piano has been intricately designed to mimic the celebrated 20th-century Canadian pianist and Bach interpreter down to the finest musical detail. Yamaha has invented a piano that not only plays itself, but also mimics one of the best pianists and Bach interpreters of the 20th century – Glenn Gould. The piano was born of Yamaha's Dear Glenn project, which uses machine learning to teach the artificial intelligence that drives the instrument's self-playing capability the interpretative idiosyncrasies and stylistic nuances of Gould's playing. In a video released by Yamaha, the'Glenn Gould as AI' piano performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in a concert setting – offering audiences, it is hoped, as close a version of the late Gould's performances as they can ever hope to see live. The self-playing aspect of the piano was made possible by the same technology used for Yamaha's existing Disklavier instrument.

With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups' algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time – and it's unsure whether more AI is making things better or worse. Of the many revelations to come from The Inventor, HBO's blockbuster film about the rise and fall of medtech startup Theranos, one of the more personal is how founder Elizabeth Holmes artificially lowered her voice to a baritone, slipping out of character every now and then; giving the game away. While many found the detail funny, others understood exactly why Holmes did it. Holmes was mimicking a man.

YouTube Music is getting a pair of small but helpful updates today: full support for Siri, and support for being installed as a desktop web app. If you're on an iOS device, you'll now be able to ask Siri to play songs straight from YouTube Music. For the longest time, Siri only supported Apple's own music sources. But in iOS 13, Apple added the ability for Siri to tap into third-party apps with a long-overdue update. Spotify added support for this feature earlier this month, and now YouTube is following suit with support from its own music streaming service. Today's other new feature, desktop web app support, means you can now have a standalone YouTube Music app on your computer, instead of having to visit the site in your browser.