Aug 12, 2020

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Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
Aug 12, 2020

Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI

After years of trailing other tech giants in AI, Apple has a new ambition: to become the industry’s leading purveyor of products powered by machine learning. In an interview with Ars Technica, the company’s AI chief argues that its pro-privacy.

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Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
Aug 12, 2020

Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI

After years of trailing other tech giants in AI, Apple has a new ambition: to become the industry’s leading purveyor of products powered by machine learning. In an interview with Ars Technica, the company’s AI chief argues that its pro-privacy.

2 min read
Values for the AI Community
Aug 12, 2020

Values for the AI Community

Earlier this week, I asked a question on social media: What is the most important problem that the AI community should work on? Thousands of you responded. The most frequently mentioned themes included...

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The Batch: Apple's AI Strategy, Retail Surveillance, Clothes That Fight Face Recognition, Suboptimal Optimizers
Aug 12, 2020

The Batch: Apple's AI Strategy, Retail Surveillance, Clothes That Fight Face Recognition, Suboptimal Optimizers

Earlier this week, I asked a question on social media: What is the most important problem that the AI community should work on? Thousands of you responded. The most frequently mentioned themes included...

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When Optimization is Suboptimal: How gradient descent can sometimes lead to model bias
Aug 12, 2020

When Optimization is Suboptimal: How gradient descent can sometimes lead to model bias

Bias arises in machine learning when we fit an overly simple function to a more complex problem. A theoretical study shows that gradient descent itself may introduce such bias and render algorithms unable to fit data properly.

2 min read
Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
Aug 12, 2020

Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

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Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
Aug 12, 2020

Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

1 min read
Values for the AI Community
Aug 12, 2020

Values for the AI Community

Earlier this week, I asked a question on social media: What is the most important problem that the AI community should work on? Thousands of you responded. The most frequently mentioned themes included...

2 min read
Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.
Aug 12, 2020

Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.

Neural networks learned to tell one bird from another, enabling scientists to study their behavior in greater detail. Researchers from universities in Europe and Africa trained eural networks to recognize individual birds with up to 90 percent accuracy.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
Aug 12, 2020

Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

2 min read
The Batch: Apple's AI Strategy, Retail Surveillance, Clothes That Fight Face Recognition, Suboptimal Optimizers
Aug 12, 2020

The Batch: Apple's AI Strategy, Retail Surveillance, Clothes That Fight Face Recognition, Suboptimal Optimizers

Earlier this week, I asked a question on social media: What is the most important problem that the AI community should work on? Thousands of you responded. The most frequently mentioned themes included...

10 min read
Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.
Aug 12, 2020

Birdwatching With AI: A computer vision system recognizes individual birds.

Neural networks learned to tell one bird from another, enabling scientists to study their behavior in greater detail. Researchers from universities in Europe and Africa trained eural networks to recognize individual birds with up to 90 percent accuracy.

1 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
Aug 12, 2020

Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

2 min read
When Optimization is Suboptimal: How gradient descent can sometimes lead to model bias
Aug 12, 2020

When Optimization is Suboptimal: How gradient descent can sometimes lead to model bias

Bias arises in machine learning when we fit an overly simple function to a more complex problem. A theoretical study shows that gradient descent itself may introduce such bias and render algorithms unable to fit data properly.

2 min read

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