Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic
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Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic

The pandemic has forced self-driving car companies off the road. Now they’re moving forward by refining their mountains of training data. Self-driving cars typically collect real-world training data with two human operators onboard, but Covid-19 makes that unsafe at any speed.

June 3, 20201 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
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Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
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Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
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Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
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Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services
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Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services

When the world is panning for machine learning gold, it pays to help them dig through the data. Machine learning entrepreneurs can make their mark (and their fortune) building services that help other companies develop, deploy, and monitor AI, venture capitalist Rob Toews argues in Forbes.

April 1, 20201 min read
Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services
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Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services

When the world is panning for machine learning gold, it pays to help them dig through the data. Machine learning entrepreneurs can make their mark (and their fortune) building services that help other companies develop, deploy, and monitor AI, venture capitalist Rob Toews argues in Forbes.

April 1, 20201 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
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Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

March 11, 20202 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
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Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

March 11, 20202 min read

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