Feb 03, 2021

14 Posts

Feb 03, 2021

Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

1 min read
Feb 03, 2021

Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

1 min read
Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.
Feb 03, 2021

Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.

A grassroots research collective aims to make a GPT-3 clone that’s available to everyone. EleutherAI, a loose-knit group of independent researchers, is developing GPT-Neo, an open source, free-to-use version of OpenAI’s gargantuan language model.

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AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed
Feb 03, 2021

AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story: Tech-savvy individual retail investors coordinated their trades online to push up the price...

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Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon
Feb 03, 2021

Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story...

2 min read
Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon
Feb 03, 2021

Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story...

2 min read
Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.
Feb 03, 2021

Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.

A grassroots research collective aims to make a GPT-3 clone that’s available to everyone. EleutherAI, a loose-knit group of independent researchers, is developing GPT-Neo, an open source, free-to-use version of OpenAI’s gargantuan language model.

1 min read
AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed
Feb 03, 2021

AI Feels Your Pain, GPT-3 Wants To Be Free, Privacy Is Harder Than You Think, Neural Network Performance Guaranteed

The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story: Tech-savvy individual retail investors coordinated their trades online to push up the price...

10 min read
Performance Guaranteed: How deep learning networks can become Bayes-optimal.
Feb 03, 2021

Performance Guaranteed: How deep learning networks can become Bayes-optimal.

Bayes-optimal algorithms always make the best decisions given their training and input, if certain assumptions hold true. New work shows that some neural networks can approach this kind of performance.

2 min read
Performance Guaranteed: How deep learning networks can become Bayes-optimal.
Feb 03, 2021

Performance Guaranteed: How deep learning networks can become Bayes-optimal.

Bayes-optimal algorithms always make the best decisions given their training and input, if certain assumptions hold true. New work shows that some neural networks can approach this kind of performance.

2 min read
Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.
Feb 03, 2021

Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.

Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.

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Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.
Feb 03, 2021

Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.

Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.

1 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Feb 03, 2021

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

2 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Feb 03, 2021

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

2 min read

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