Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.
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Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.

A machine learning model is scouring the cosmos for undiscovered planets. Astronomers from the University of Warwick developed a system that learned to identify faraway worlds in a dataset of thousands of candidates.

September 9, 20202 min read
Credit Where It’s Due: How Visa powers real-time credit card approval with AI
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Credit Where It’s Due: How Visa powers real-time credit card approval with AI

A neural network is helping credit card users continue to shop even when the lender’s credit-approval network goes down. Visa developed a deep learning system that analyzes individual cardholders’ behavior in real time to predict whether credit card transactions should be approved or denied.

September 9, 20202 min read
Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.
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Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.

A machine learning model is scouring the cosmos for undiscovered planets. Astronomers from the University of Warwick developed a system that learned to identify faraway worlds in a dataset of thousands of candidates.

September 9, 20202 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
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Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

May 20, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
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Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

May 20, 20201 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
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
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Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.

AI’s ability to transfer a person’s face from a source photo onto someone in a target photo doesn’t work so well when the target face is partially obscured by, say, eyeglasses, a veil, or a hand. A new technique handles such occlusions.

February 19, 20202 min read
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
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Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.

AI’s ability to transfer a person’s face from a source photo onto someone in a target photo doesn’t work so well when the target face is partially obscured by, say, eyeglasses, a veil, or a hand. A new technique handles such occlusions.

February 19, 20202 min read
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
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Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

January 8, 20201 min read
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
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Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

January 8, 20201 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
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Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
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Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read

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