The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support
Feb 17, 2021

The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions...

12 min read
The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support
Feb 17, 2021

The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions...

12 min read
The Batch: Drivers Under Surveillance, What Is Fairness?, Cancer Treatment, Vision Improves Language, Trade In Your Gucci
Feb 10, 2021

The Batch: Drivers Under Surveillance, What Is Fairness?, Cancer Treatment, Vision Improves Language, Trade In Your Gucci

Over the last several decades, driven by a multitude of benchmarks, supervised learning algorithms have become really good at achieving high accuracy on test datasets. As valuable as this is...

11 min read
The Batch: Drivers Under Surveillance, What Is Fairness?, Cancer Treatment, Vision Improves Language, Trade In Your Gucci
Feb 10, 2021

The Batch: Drivers Under Surveillance, What Is Fairness?, Cancer Treatment, Vision Improves Language, Trade In Your Gucci

Over the last several decades, driven by a multitude of benchmarks, supervised learning algorithms have become really good at achieving high accuracy on test datasets. As valuable as this is...

11 min read
AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed
Feb 03, 2021

AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story: Tech-savvy individual retail investors coordinated their trades online to push up the price...

10 min read
AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed
Feb 03, 2021

AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story: Tech-savvy individual retail investors coordinated their trades online to push up the price...

10 min read
The Batch: Reading Viruses, Liberating Drones, Detecting Earthquakes, Social Networking For The Blind, Competition For GANs
Jan 27, 2021

The Batch: Reading Viruses, Liberating Drones, Detecting Earthquakes, Social Networking For The Blind, Competition For GANs

Last week, I talked about how best practices for machine learning projects are not one-size-fits-all, and how they vary depending on whether a project uses structured or unstructured data, and whether the dataset is small or big. Another dimension that affects best practices is which phase of...

12 min read
The Batch: Reading Viruses, Liberating Drones, Detecting Earthquakes, Social Networking For The Blind, Competition For GANs
Jan 27, 2021

The Batch: Reading Viruses, Liberating Drones, Detecting Earthquakes, Social Networking For The Blind, Competition For GANs

Last week, I talked about how best practices for machine learning projects are not one-size-fits-all, and how they vary depending on whether a project uses structured or unstructured data, and whether the dataset is small or big. Another dimension that affects best practices is which phase of...

12 min read
The Batch: Detecting Guns, Fighting Lead Poisoning, Adversarial Training for Language-and-Vision, Financial Reports for Robots
Jan 20, 2021

The Batch: Detecting Guns, Fighting Lead Poisoning, Adversarial Training for Language-and-Vision, Financial Reports for Robots

Experience gained in building a model to solve one problem doesn’t always transfer to building models for other problems. How can you tell whether or not intuitions honed in one project are likely to generalize to another?

9 min read
The Batch: Detecting Guns, Fighting Lead Poisoning, Adversarial Training for Language-and-Vision, Financial Reports for Robots
Jan 20, 2021

The Batch: Detecting Guns, Fighting Lead Poisoning, Adversarial Training for Language-and-Vision, Financial Reports for Robots

Experience gained in building a model to solve one problem doesn’t always transfer to building models for other problems. How can you tell whether or not intuitions honed in one project are likely to generalize to another?

9 min read
The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink
Jan 13, 2021

The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered...

11 min read
The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink
Jan 13, 2021

The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered...

11 min read
The Batch: Clues to Mental Illness, Enterprise AI, Bias in Compressed Models, U.S. AI Strategy
Jan 06, 2021

The Batch: Clues to Mental Illness, Enterprise AI, Bias in Compressed Models, U.S. AI Strategy

In my letter last week, I alluded to the way AI tends to concentrate power and wealth. This tendency worries me, and I believe it deserves more attention.

11 min read
The Batch: Clues to Mental Illness, Enterprise AI, Bias in Compressed Models, U.S. AI Strategy
Jan 06, 2021

The Batch: Clues to Mental Illness, Enterprise AI, Bias in Compressed Models, U.S. AI Strategy

In my letter last week, I alluded to the way AI tends to concentrate power and wealth. This tendency worries me, and I believe it deserves more attention.

11 min read
The Batch: New Year Wishes From Fei-Fei Li, Harry Shum, Ayanna Howard, Ilya Sutskever, Matthew Mattina
Dec 30, 2020

The Batch: New Year Wishes From Fei-Fei Li, Harry Shum, Ayanna Howard, Ilya Sutskever, Matthew Mattina

Happy New Year! As we enter 2021, I want to share with you three wishes I have for AI in the upcoming year. I hope we can: Narrow the gap between proofs-of-concept and production. While building good models is important...

11 min read
The Batch: New Year Wishes From Fei-Fei Li, Harry Shum, Ayanna Howard, Ilya Sutskever, Matthew Mattina
Dec 30, 2020

The Batch: New Year Wishes From Fei-Fei Li, Harry Shum, Ayanna Howard, Ilya Sutskever, Matthew Mattina

Happy New Year! As we enter 2021, I want to share with you three wishes I have for AI in the upcoming year. I hope we can: Narrow the gap between proofs-of-concept and production. While building good models is important...

11 min read

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