{"id":15395,"date":"2017-12-28T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15395"},"modified":"2017-12-28T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:13:20","slug":"sci-tech-video-ubers-self-driving-cars-have-improved-with-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15395","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech Video: Uber&#8217;s self-driving cars have improved with experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting update on Uber&#8217;s testing in Pittsburgh of self-driving cars:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/uber-self-driving-cars-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_d\">While Uber Burns, Its Self-Driving Car Project Carries On | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/player-backend.cnevids.com\/script\/video\/5a3c24072d1ca0412200000a.js?iu=\/3379\/wiredcom.dart\/share\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>In another machine-learning uptick, check out the samples of computer generated speech using algorithms developed by Google researchers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/tacotron2\/\" target=\"_d\">Audio samples from &#8220;Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2157278-human-or-robot-googles-speech-generator-makes-it-hard-to-tell\/\" target=\"_d\">Human or robot? 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