Ensure you have Python 3 and PyTorch 1.4 or greater. Install NVIDIA/apex for mixed precision training. Download and extract the ZeroSpeech2020 datasets. Download the train/test splits here and extract ...

While the Cylons in the original 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" definitely looked like actors in chrome suits, they at least sounded like robots. Cylon Centurions spoke with a low-pitched synthesized ...

Picture this: You’ve got a great idea. Maybe it’s an app, a tool, or a game. There’s just one problem: You’re not a developer. The gap between idea and execution used to be vast, requiring thousands ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Abstract: Tactile sensing is a critical component of the Internet of Things (IoT) and robotic systems, enabling machines to perceive physical properties such as surface texture. However, deploying ...

As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different ...

Work is full of time-sucking, tedious or annoying tasks, particularly when you’re on a computer. I used to spend hours on stupid chores like reorganizing someone else’s messy spreadsheet. Now, I use ...

Andrej Karpathy introduces “agentic engineering,” arguing that directing A.I. agents now defines modern software development. Photo by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The ...

CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...

AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new ...

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...