Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
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Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

April 14, 20212 min read
Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.
Amazon

Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.

Amazon is monitoring its delivery drivers with in-vehicle cameras that alert supervisors to dangerous behavior. The online retail giant rolled out a ceiling-mounted surveillance system that flags drivers who, say, read texts, fail to use seatbelts, exceed the speed limit, or ignore a stop sign.

February 10, 20211 min read
Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.
Amazon

Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.

Amazon is monitoring its delivery drivers with in-vehicle cameras that alert supervisors to dangerous behavior. The online retail giant rolled out a ceiling-mounted surveillance system that flags drivers who, say, read texts, fail to use seatbelts, exceed the speed limit, or ignore a stop sign.

February 10, 20211 min read
Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.
Amazon

Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.

U.S. regulators for the first time allowed commercial operators of autonomous aerial vehicles to fly out of operators’ sight. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration authorized drone maker American Robotics to fly without requirement.

January 27, 20212 min read
Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.
Amazon

Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.

U.S. regulators for the first time allowed commercial operators of autonomous aerial vehicles to fly out of operators’ sight. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration authorized drone maker American Robotics to fly without requirement.

January 27, 20212 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
Amazon

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
Amazon

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.
Amazon

Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.

A new breed of self-driving car could kick the autonomous-vehicle industry into a higher gear. Zoox unveiled its first product, an all-electric, driverless taxi designed fully in-house.

December 16, 20202 min read
Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.
Amazon

Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.

A new breed of self-driving car could kick the autonomous-vehicle industry into a higher gear. Zoox unveiled its first product, an all-electric, driverless taxi designed fully in-house.

December 16, 20202 min read
Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.
Amazon

Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.

Amazon’s digital assistant is using its eyes as well as its ears to figure out who’s talking. At its annual hardware showcase, Amazon introduced an Alexa skill that melds acoustic, linguistic, and visual cues to help the system keep track of individual speakers and topics of conversation.

October 7, 20201 min read
Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.
Amazon

Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.

Amazon’s digital assistant is using its eyes as well as its ears to figure out who’s talking. At its annual hardware showcase, Amazon introduced an Alexa skill that melds acoustic, linguistic, and visual cues to help the system keep track of individual speakers and topics of conversation.

October 7, 20201 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
Amazon

Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
Amazon

Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Amazon

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Amazon

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read

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