Feb 19, 2020

16 Posts

Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
Feb 19, 2020

Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.

Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.

2 min read
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
Feb 19, 2020

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.

2 min read
Unsupervised Learning Ascendent
Feb 19, 2020

Unsupervised Learning Ascendent

Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task.

1 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
Feb 19, 2020

Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.

Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun presented their latest thinking about deep learning’s limitations and how to overcome them.

2 min read
Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020
Feb 19, 2020

Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020

The business world continues to shape deep learning’s future. Commerce is pushing AI toward more efficient consumption of data, energy, and labor, according to a report on trends in machine learning from market analyst CB Insights.

1 min read
Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
Feb 19, 2020

Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.

Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.

2 min read
Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020
Feb 19, 2020

Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020

The business world continues to shape deep learning’s future. Commerce is pushing AI toward more efficient consumption of data, energy, and labor, according to a report on trends in machine learning from market analyst CB Insights.

1 min read
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
Feb 19, 2020

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.

2 min read
Unsupervised Learning Ascendent
Feb 19, 2020

Unsupervised Learning Ascendent

Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task.

1 min read
The Batch: Chatbots Sue Telemarketers, Neural Nets See Around Corners, Police Read License Plates, Deep Learning Pioneers Speak
Feb 19, 2020

The Batch: Chatbots Sue Telemarketers, Neural Nets See Around Corners, Police Read License Plates, Deep Learning Pioneers Speak

Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task. These ideas contributed only marginally to practical performance back then, but I’m pleased

10 min read
Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
Feb 19, 2020

Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.

A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.

1 min read
The Batch: Chatbots Sue Telemarketers, Neural Nets See Around Corners, Police Read License Plates, Deep Learning Pioneers Speak
Feb 19, 2020

The Batch: Chatbots Sue Telemarketers, Neural Nets See Around Corners, Police Read License Plates, Deep Learning Pioneers Speak

Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task. These ideas contributed only marginally to practical performance back then, but I’m pleased

10 min read
Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
Feb 19, 2020

Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.

A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.

1 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
Feb 19, 2020

Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.

Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun presented their latest thinking about deep learning’s limitations and how to overcome them.

2 min read
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
Feb 19, 2020

Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers

Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.

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