Best of the web: Artificial Intelligence news for September 9, 2016

We all become accustomed to the tone and pattern of human speech at an early age, and any deviations from what we have come to accept as "normal" are immediately recognizable. That's why it has been so difficult to develop text-to-speech (TTS) that sounds authentically human. Google's DeepMind AI research arm has turned its machine learning model on the problem, and the resulting "WaveNet" platform has produced some amazing (and slightly creepy) results. The system, known as WaveNet, is able to generate human speech by forming individual sound waves that are used in a human voice. Additionally, because it is designed to mimic human brain function, WaveNet is capable of learni... Artist Ai Weiwei poses next to images of Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art in 1987.