Feb 24, 2021

14 Posts

Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
Feb 24, 2021

Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

2 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
Feb 24, 2021

Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

2 min read
Choose the Right Point On the Automation Spectrum
Feb 24, 2021

Choose the Right Point On the Automation Spectrum

AI-enabled automation is often portrayed as a binary on-or-off: A process is either automated or not. But in practice, automation is a spectrum, and AI teams have to choose where on this spectrum to operate.

2 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
Feb 24, 2021

Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

2 min read
The Batch: Face Datasets Under Fire, Baking With AI, Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms, Ginormous Transformers
Feb 24, 2021

The Batch: Face Datasets Under Fire, Baking With AI, Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms, Ginormous Transformers

AI-enabled automation is often portrayed as a binary on-or-off: A process is either automated or not. But in practice, automation is a spectrum, and AI teams have to choose where on this spectrum to operate. It’s important to...

11 min read
The Batch: Face Datasets Under Fire, Baking With AI, Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms, Ginormous Transformers
Feb 24, 2021

The Batch: Face Datasets Under Fire, Baking With AI, Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms, Ginormous Transformers

AI-enabled automation is often portrayed as a binary on-or-off: A process is either automated or not. But in practice, automation is a spectrum, and AI teams have to choose where on this spectrum to operate. It’s important to...

11 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
Feb 24, 2021

Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

1 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
Feb 24, 2021

Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

1 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
Feb 24, 2021

Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

2 min read
Choose the Right Point On the Automation Spectrum
Feb 24, 2021

Choose the Right Point On the Automation Spectrum

AI-enabled automation is often portrayed as a binary on-or-off: A process is either automated or not. But in practice, automation is a spectrum, and AI teams have to choose where on this spectrum to operate.

2 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
Feb 24, 2021

Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

2 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
Feb 24, 2021

Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

2 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
Feb 24, 2021

Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers

Performance in language tasks rises with the size of the model — yet, as a model’s parameter count rises, so does the time it takes to render output. New work pumps up the number of parameters without slowing down the network.

2 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
Feb 24, 2021

Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers

Performance in language tasks rises with the size of the model — yet, as a model’s parameter count rises, so does the time it takes to render output. New work pumps up the number of parameters without slowing down the network.

2 min read

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