Aug 05, 2020

14 Posts

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Aug 05, 2020

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

1 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
Aug 05, 2020

Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

2 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Aug 05, 2020

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

1 min read
Making AI Fair, Accountable, and Reliable
Aug 05, 2020

Making AI Fair, Accountable, and Reliable

I spoke last week at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a meeting attended by U.S. federal, state, and local government auditors. (Apparently some of the organizers had taken AI for Everyone.)

2 min read
AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.
Aug 05, 2020

AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.

A prosthetic leg that learns from the user’s motion could help amputees walk more naturally. Researchers from the University of Utah designed a robotic leg that uses machine learning to generate a human-like stride.

2 min read
Making AI Fair, Accountable, and Reliable
Aug 05, 2020

Making AI Fair, Accountable, and Reliable

I spoke last week at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a meeting attended by U.S. federal, state, and local government auditors. (Apparently some of the organizers had taken AI for Everyone.)

2 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
Aug 05, 2020

New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

1 min read
The Batch: Faster AI Chips, Smarter Prosthetic Legs, Transformers for Image Processing, Humbling Overconfident Models
Aug 05, 2020

The Batch: Faster AI Chips, Smarter Prosthetic Legs, Transformers for Image Processing, Humbling Overconfident Models

I spoke last week at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a meeting attended by U.S. federal, state, and local government auditors. (Apparently some of the organizers had taken AI for Everyone.)

10 min read
The Batch: Faster AI Chips, Smarter Prosthetic Legs, Transformers for Image Processing, Humbling Overconfident Models
Aug 05, 2020

The Batch: Faster AI Chips, Smarter Prosthetic Legs, Transformers for Image Processing, Humbling Overconfident Models

I spoke last week at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a meeting attended by U.S. federal, state, and local government auditors. (Apparently some of the organizers had taken AI for Everyone.)

10 min read
New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.
Aug 05, 2020

New Horsepower for Neural Nets: UK startup Graphcore released its Colossus MK2 chip for AI.

A high-profile semiconductor startup made a bid for the future of AI computation. UK startup Graphcore released the Colossus Mk2, a processor intended to perform the matrix math calculations at the heart of deep learning more efficiently than other specialized processors.

1 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
Aug 05, 2020

Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

2 min read
AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.
Aug 05, 2020

AI Steps Up: This prosthetic leg uses AI to learn a human-like stride.

A prosthetic leg that learns from the user’s motion could help amputees walk more naturally. Researchers from the University of Utah designed a robotic leg that uses machine learning to generate a human-like stride.

2 min read
Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
Aug 05, 2020

Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

2 min read
Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
Aug 05, 2020

Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

2 min read

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