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Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
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Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller

TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.

May 24, 20232 min read
Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
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Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller

TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.

May 24, 20232 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
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Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
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Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
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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.

August 12, 20212 min read
Apple Kicks AI Into High Gear: Inside Apple's efforts to make pro-privacy AI
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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.

August 12, 20212 min read
Fresh Funds for U.S. Research: The U.S. plans to build new civilian AI research labs.
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Fresh Funds for U.S. Research: The U.S. plans to build new civilian AI research labs.

The U.S. plans to build nearly a dozen new civilian AI research labs. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) committed $220 million to fund 11 National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, complementing seven other AI research institutes that were established last year.

August 11, 20211 min read
Fresh Funds for U.S. Research: The U.S. plans to build new civilian AI research labs.
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Fresh Funds for U.S. Research: The U.S. plans to build new civilian AI research labs.

The U.S. plans to build nearly a dozen new civilian AI research labs. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) committed $220 million to fund 11 National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, complementing seven other AI research institutes that were established last year.

August 11, 20211 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
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Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
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Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
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Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
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Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read
Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners
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Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners

A computer vision system is helping to keep runners with impaired vision on track.What’s new: A prototype smartphone app developed by Google translates camera images into audio signals.

December 9, 20202 min read

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