User Privacy Versus Child Safety: Apple to scan user phones for images of child abuse.
Facebook

User Privacy Versus Child Safety: Apple to scan user phones for images of child abuse.

Apple, which has made a point of its commitment to user privacy, announced that it will scan iPhones for evidence of child abuse. The tech giant will include a machine learning model on the device.

August 18, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Facebook

Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Facebook

Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
Facebook

Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
Facebook

Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.
Facebook

Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.

A reinforcement learning system enabled a four-legged robot to amble over unfamiliar, rapidly changing terrain.

July 14, 20211 min read
Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.
Facebook

Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.

A reinforcement learning system enabled a four-legged robot to amble over unfamiliar, rapidly changing terrain.

July 14, 20211 min read
Robocoders: How SourceAI uses GPT-3 to write code in 40 languages.
Facebook

Robocoders: How SourceAI uses GPT-3 to write code in 40 languages.

Language models are starting to take on programming work. SourceAI uses GPT-3 to translate plain-English requests into computer code in 40 programming languages. The French startup is one of several companies that use AI to ease coding.

May 5, 20211 min read
Robocoders: How SourceAI uses GPT-3 to write code in 40 languages.
Facebook

Robocoders: How SourceAI uses GPT-3 to write code in 40 languages.

Language models are starting to take on programming work. SourceAI uses GPT-3 to translate plain-English requests into computer code in 40 programming languages. The French startup is one of several companies that use AI to ease coding.

May 5, 20211 min read
Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.
Facebook

Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.

Attention quantifies how each part of one input affects the various parts of another. Researchers added a step that reverses this comparison to produce more convincing images.

April 7, 20212 min read
Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.
Facebook

Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.

Attention quantifies how each part of one input affects the various parts of another. Researchers added a step that reverses this comparison to produce more convincing images.

April 7, 20212 min read
Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.
Facebook

Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.

Facebook’s management obstructed the architect of its recommendation algorithms from mitigating their negative social impact. The social network focused on reining in algorithmic bias against particular groups of users at the expense of efforts to reduce disinformation.

March 17, 20212 min read
Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.
Facebook

Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.

Facebook’s management obstructed the architect of its recommendation algorithms from mitigating their negative social impact. The social network focused on reining in algorithmic bias against particular groups of users at the expense of efforts to reduce disinformation.

March 17, 20212 min read
ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.
Facebook

ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.

Smart glasses in the works at Facebook may be equipped with face recognition. The social media colossus plans to market augmented-reality headgear, and it’s considering a feature that would overlay a person’s name on their face.

March 3, 20211 min read
ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.
Facebook

ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.

Smart glasses in the works at Facebook may be equipped with face recognition. The social media colossus plans to market augmented-reality headgear, and it’s considering a feature that would overlay a person’s name on their face.

March 3, 20211 min read

Subscribe to The Batch

Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox