Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers
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When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers

The government of South Korea is supplying personal data to developers of face recognition algorithms.

November 24, 20212 min read
Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
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Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries

Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.

November 24, 20212 min read
When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers
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When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers

The government of South Korea is supplying personal data to developers of face recognition algorithms.

November 24, 20212 min read
Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
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Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries

Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.

November 24, 20212 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
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DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2

Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.

November 10, 20211 min read
DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
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DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2

Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.

November 10, 20211 min read
Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet
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Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet

Deep learning is helping to protect elderly people from potentially catastrophic tumbles.What’s happening: More than 2,000 senior living facilities across the U.S. use a diagnostic system called VirtuSense Balance

September 15, 20211 min read
Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet
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Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet

Deep learning is helping to protect elderly people from potentially catastrophic tumbles.What’s happening: More than 2,000 senior living facilities across the U.S. use a diagnostic system called VirtuSense Balance

September 15, 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
Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.
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Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.

The activation function known as ReLU builds complex nonlinear functions across layers of a neural network, making functions that outline flat faces and sharp edges. But how much of the world breaks down into perfect polyhedra?

August 5, 20212 min read

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