The Comet Newsletter, Issue #16: An AI tries to write a play, Hugging Face’s high-profile hire, a new text-to-speech model from Google, and more
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The Comet Newsletter's 16th issue covers several intriguing updates in the machine learning landscape, highlighting a forthcoming MLOps webinar by Niko Laskaris and the hiring of AI Ethics Researcher Margaret Mitchell by Hugging Face, a company known for its model hub and open-source tools. Margaret Mitchell's move from Google is seen as a strategic addition to reinforce Hugging Face's ethical framework. The newsletter also delves into the creative potential of AI, with playwright Jennifer Tang's experiment using GPT-3 to write a play, producing mixed but thought-provoking results. Additionally, it features an extractive text summarization project using BERT by Victor Dibia from Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, and discusses a new neural text-to-speech (TTS) approach by Google AI, aimed at improving speech synthesis for people with impairments through the combination of PnG BERT and Non-Attentive Tacotron models.