The Batch: Face Recognition at the Border, Robot Manicurists, Irresponsible AI, Synthesizing Real-World Scenes
Jun 09, 2021

The Batch: Face Recognition at the Border, Robot Manicurists, Irresponsible AI, Synthesizing Real-World Scenes

Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one, which was taken when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon (I’m standing in the middle).

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The Batch: Face Recognition at the Border, Robot Manicurists, Irresponsible AI, Synthesizing Real-World Scenes
Jun 09, 2021

The Batch: Face Recognition at the Border, Robot Manicurists, Irresponsible AI, Synthesizing Real-World Scenes

Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one, which was taken when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon (I’m standing in the middle).

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The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins
Jun 02, 2021

The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins

In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.

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The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins
Jun 02, 2021

The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins

In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.

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The Batch: Face Recognition for the Masses, Labeling Libel, Documenting Datasets, What Machines Want to See
May 26, 2021

The Batch: Face Recognition for the Masses, Labeling Libel, Documenting Datasets, What Machines Want to See

Benchmarks have been a significant driver of research progress in machine learning. But they've driven progress in model architecture, not approaches to building datasets, which can have a large impact on performance in practical applications.

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The Batch: Face Recognition for the Masses, Labeling Libel, Documenting Datasets, What Machines Want to See
May 26, 2021

The Batch: Face Recognition for the Masses, Labeling Libel, Documenting Datasets, What Machines Want to See

Benchmarks have been a significant driver of research progress in machine learning. But they've driven progress in model architecture, not approaches to building datasets, which can have a large impact on performance in practical applications.

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The Batch: Surgical Robots Go Autonomous, Virtual Reality On Speed, AI Crossword Champ, Algorithms For Orcas
May 19, 2021

The Batch: Surgical Robots Go Autonomous, Virtual Reality On Speed, AI Crossword Champ, Algorithms For Orcas

I decided last weekend not to use a learning algorithm. Sometimes, a non-machine learning method works best. Now that my daughter is a little over two years old and highly mobile, I want to make sure the baby gate that keeps her away...

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The Batch: Surgical Robots Go Autonomous, Virtual Reality On Speed, AI Crossword Champ, Algorithms For Orcas
May 19, 2021

The Batch: Surgical Robots Go Autonomous, Virtual Reality On Speed, AI Crossword Champ, Algorithms For Orcas

I decided last weekend not to use a learning algorithm. Sometimes, a non-machine learning method works best. Now that my daughter is a little over two years old and highly mobile, I want to make sure the baby gate that keeps her away...

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The Batch Special Issue! Machine Learning in Production: MLOps at scale with Amazon, Google, Microsoft
May 12, 2021

The Batch Special Issue! Machine Learning in Production: MLOps at scale with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

So you’ve trained an accurate neural network model in a Jupyter notebook. You should celebrate! But . . . now what? Machine learning engineering in production is an emerging discipline that helps individual engineers and teams put models into the hands of users.

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The Batch Special Issue! Machine Learning in Production: MLOps at scale with Amazon, Google, Microsoft
May 12, 2021

The Batch Special Issue! Machine Learning in Production: MLOps at scale with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

So you’ve trained an accurate neural network model in a Jupyter notebook. You should celebrate! But . . . now what? Machine learning engineering in production is an emerging discipline that helps individual engineers and teams put models into the hands of users.

13 min read
The Batch: Rise of the Robocoders, Banks Embrace Face Recognition, Toward Greener AI, Cloning 3D Objects
May 05, 2021

The Batch: Rise of the Robocoders, Banks Embrace Face Recognition, Toward Greener AI, Cloning 3D Objects

It can take 6 to 24 months to bring a machine learning project from concept to deployment, but a specialized development platform can make things go much fasterMy team at Landing AI has been working on a platform called LandingLens...

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The Batch: Rise of the Robocoders, Banks Embrace Face Recognition, Toward Greener AI, Cloning 3D Objects
May 05, 2021

The Batch: Rise of the Robocoders, Banks Embrace Face Recognition, Toward Greener AI, Cloning 3D Objects

It can take 6 to 24 months to bring a machine learning project from concept to deployment, but a specialized development platform can make things go much fasterMy team at Landing AI has been working on a platform called LandingLens...

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The Batch: Europe's AI Backlash, Robot Debater, Car Wreck Recognition, Funding For Biomedicine
Apr 28, 2021

The Batch: Europe's AI Backlash, Robot Debater, Car Wreck Recognition, Funding For Biomedicine

How much data do you need to collect for a new machine learning project? If you’re working in a domain you’re familiar with, you may have a sense based on experience or from the literature. But when you’re working on a novel application, it’s hard to tell.

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The Batch: Europe's AI Backlash, Robot Debater, Car Wreck Recognition, Funding For Biomedicine
Apr 28, 2021

The Batch: Europe's AI Backlash, Robot Debater, Car Wreck Recognition, Funding For Biomedicine

How much data do you need to collect for a new machine learning project? If you’re working in a domain you’re familiar with, you may have a sense based on experience or from the literature. But when you’re working on a novel application, it’s hard to tell.

9 min read
The Batch: Top AI Startups, Muting Griefers, Re-Creating Lost Masterpieces, Better Video Search
Apr 21, 2021

The Batch: Top AI Startups, Muting Griefers, Re-Creating Lost Masterpieces, Better Video Search

Last Sunday was my birthday. That got me thinking about the days leading to this one and those that may lie ahead.As a reader of The Batch, you’re probably pretty good at math. But let me ask you a question, and please answer from your gut, without calculating.

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The Batch: Top AI Startups, Muting Griefers, Re-Creating Lost Masterpieces, Better Video Search
Apr 21, 2021

The Batch: Top AI Startups, Muting Griefers, Re-Creating Lost Masterpieces, Better Video Search

Last Sunday was my birthday. That got me thinking about the days leading to this one and those that may lie ahead.As a reader of The Batch, you’re probably pretty good at math. But let me ask you a question, and please answer from your gut, without calculating.

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