An interesting update on Uber’s testing in Pittsburgh of self-driving cars: While Uber Burns, Its Self-Driving Car Project Carries On | WIRED

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In another machine-learning uptick, check out the samples of computer generated speech using algorithms developed by Google researchers:

• Audio samples from “Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions”
• Human or robot? Google’s speech generator makes it hard to tell | New Scientist

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