News and social media move financial markets. Bloomberg is one of the largest producers of news in the world and we ingest millions of news stories every day from over 70,000 external news feeds and social media such as Twitter. This data keeps our clients informed, and our team's insights help make sense of it for our customers. Bloomberg's Artificial Intelligence (AI) group: researchers and engineers who have a passion for solving complex problems. Our charter: to extract and identify relevant, meaningful, tradable, and actionable information (such as pricings, earnings, recommendations and major events) from data (including news, web, social media, and structured data) in real-time.

What is happening in the field of evolutionary and genetic algorithms today? Are there any cutting edge scientific projects in terms of AI/AGI? I'd very much appreciate it if someone could link me the relevant websites, researches, papers regarding the subject along with respective books or monographs. I'm just trying to find things out and getting back on track.

If you haven't hopped aboard the smart speaker train, now is as good a time as any, as there are two relatively inexpensive ones on the market today--the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot. If you're looking for a device that can play music, give you the weather, and operate your smart gadgets, you may have been eyeballing these small-but-mighty smart speakers. The question is, though, which one is better? How do the features compare? There are distinct differences in how each speaker--the Echo Dot, left, and Google Home Mini--lights up when given a command.

We've created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology as GPT-2, a large-scale transformer model trained to predict the next token in a sequence, whether audio or text. Since MuseNet knows many different styles, we can blend generations in novel ways[1]. Here the model is given the first 6 notes of a Chopin Nocturne, but is asked to generate a piece in a pop style with piano, drums, bass, and guitar.

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Not all voice assistants can handle the same requests. We put Siri, Alexa and Google to the test. Think of all the things a microphone can pick up: voices, noises, whispers, conversations, arguments, confessions – even people alone, in a room, mumbling to themselves. Think of all the things you say in a private space, all the weird things you do. Once those sounds have been saved, that data can be stored, edited, and manipulated and shared.

Communitech, in partnership with the Schulich Foundation and Leaders Fund, revealed the problem statement for the Leaders Prize Competition Wednesday. This first-of-its-kind competition in Canada will award $1 million to the winning team using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve a global problem that is undermining our democracies: fake news and the spread of misinformation. Teams across Canada are invited to create solutions to automatically verify a series of claims, flag whether they are true, partly true, or false and provide evidence to support their determination. The prize will ultimately be awarded to the most effective and efficient AI based fact-checking solution. "This competition will inspire the creation of breakthrough solutions that inform our citizens if the online content they consume is accurate, before and as they read it," said David Stein, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Leaders Fund.