Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
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Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
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The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.

A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.

January 13, 20212 min read
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
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Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags
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How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags

Computer vision is helping people resell their used designer handbags. Rebag, a resale company for luxury handbags, watches, and jewelry, launched Clair AI, an app that automatically appraises second-hand bags from brands like Gucci, Hermes, and Prada.

January 13, 20211 min read
How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags
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How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags

Computer vision is helping people resell their used designer handbags. Rebag, a resale company for luxury handbags, watches, and jewelry, launched Clair AI, an app that automatically appraises second-hand bags from brands like Gucci, Hermes, and Prada.

January 13, 20211 min read
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
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The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.

A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.

January 13, 20212 min read
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
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Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.

Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.

January 6, 20212 min read
Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
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Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.

An AI-powered collar may help protect wild elephants from poachers, hunters, and other hostile humans. Ten ElephantEdge wireless tracking collars will be fitted onto African elephants next year, TechCrunch reported.

January 6, 20211 min read
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
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Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.

Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.

January 6, 20212 min read
Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
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Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.

An AI-powered collar may help protect wild elephants from poachers, hunters, and other hostile humans. Ten ElephantEdge wireless tracking collars will be fitted onto African elephants next year, TechCrunch reported.

January 6, 20211 min read
Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
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The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
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The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
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Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read

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