Feb 17, 2021

16 Posts

The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support
Feb 17, 2021

The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions...

12 min read
The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support
Feb 17, 2021

The Batch: Untested Medical AI?, Art Appreciation For Robots, Why Models Don't Generalize, Autonomous Weapons Gain Support

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions...

12 min read
Better Zero-Shot Translations: A method for improving transformer NLP translation
Feb 17, 2021

Better Zero-Shot Translations: A method for improving transformer NLP translation

Train a multilingual language translator to translate between Spanish and English and between English and German, and it may be able to translate directly between Spanish and German as well. New work proposes a simple path to better machine translation between languages.

2 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
Feb 17, 2021

Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.

How much processing power do various nations have on hand to drive their AI strategy? An international trade group aims to find out. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is launching an effort to measure the computing capacity available in countries around the world.

1 min read
Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.
Feb 17, 2021

Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.

A panel of AI experts appointed by the U.S. government came out against a ban on autonomous weapons. A draft report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommends against a proposed international global prohibition of AI-enabled autonomous weapon systems.

1 min read
Better Zero-Shot Translations: A method for improving transformer NLP translation
Feb 17, 2021

Better Zero-Shot Translations: A method for improving transformer NLP translation

Train a multilingual language translator to translate between Spanish and English and between English and German, and it may be able to translate directly between Spanish and German as well. New work proposes a simple path to better machine translation between languages.

2 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
Feb 17, 2021

Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

2 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Feb 17, 2021

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

2 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
Feb 17, 2021

Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

2 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
Feb 17, 2021

Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.

How much processing power do various nations have on hand to drive their AI strategy? An international trade group aims to find out. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is launching an effort to measure the computing capacity available in countries around the world.

1 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
Feb 17, 2021

Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

2 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Feb 17, 2021

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

2 min read
A Different Approach to A/B Testing
Feb 17, 2021

A Different Approach to A/B Testing

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions.

2 min read
Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.
Feb 17, 2021

Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.

A panel of AI experts appointed by the U.S. government came out against a ban on autonomous weapons. A draft report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommends against a proposed international global prohibition of AI-enabled autonomous weapon systems.

1 min read
A Different Approach to A/B Testing
Feb 17, 2021

A Different Approach to A/B Testing

When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions.

2 min read

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