Last Week in AI #202: Generative models for protein discovery and voice imitation, Japan is trying to automate elder care, and more!

How conditioned diffusion models are used to generate new proteins, Microsoft tool can imitate a person's voice with just 3s of audio sample, Japan is making slow progress on elder care automation

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A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins

Conditional generative models made the news last year by bringing us impressive results of text-to-speech, text-to-video, text-to-audio, and so forth. Many of these models share an underlying technology for generative models - the conditioned diffusion model. For text-to-image, this means tha…