Device Squad: The Podcast For The Mobile Enterprise

In this episode of Device Squad, the podcast for the Mobile Enterprise from Propelics, Steve gets futuristic with MERL Senior Principal Research Scientist, John Hershey. The conversation centers around the current state of Neural Networks and artificial intelligence as John brings us the news from the recent NIPS (Neural Information Processing) conference in Barcelona.  We discuss voice recognition and replication strategies and what role they'll play in our everyday lives—along with John's current project, deep learning for signal separation, speech recognition, language processing, and multi-modal semantic representation learning. In other words, John has solved the problem of isolating a single voice in a crowd, a process known as Deep Clustering. Specifically, we discuss: the Universe Project - a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications. WaveNet - a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms - able to ge