Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
Google

Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.

Self-attention is a key element in state-of-the-art language models, but it struggles to process images because its memory requirement rises rapidly with the size of the input. New research addresses the issue with a simple twist on a convolutional neural network.

March 31, 20212 min read
ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.
Google

ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.

Smart glasses in the works at Facebook may be equipped with face recognition. The social media colossus plans to market augmented-reality headgear, and it’s considering a feature that would overlay a person’s name on their face.

March 3, 20211 min read
ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.
Google

ID By Eyeglasses?: Meta's AI glasses may use face recognition.

Smart glasses in the works at Facebook may be equipped with face recognition. The social media colossus plans to market augmented-reality headgear, and it’s considering a feature that would overlay a person’s name on their face.

March 3, 20211 min read
Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.
Google

Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.

Having dismissed two key researchers, Google restructured its efforts in AI ethics. Marian Croak, an accomplished software engineer and vice president of engineering at Google, will lead a new center of expertise in responsible AI, the company announced.

March 3, 20212 min read
Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.
Google

Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.

Having dismissed two key researchers, Google restructured its efforts in AI ethics. Marian Croak, an accomplished software engineer and vice president of engineering at Google, will lead a new center of expertise in responsible AI, the company announced.

March 3, 20212 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
Google

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...

February 24, 20211 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
Google

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...

February 24, 20211 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
Google

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.

February 24, 20212 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
Google

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.

February 24, 20212 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
Google

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.

February 17, 20212 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
Google

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.

February 17, 20211 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
Google

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.

February 17, 20211 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
Google

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.

February 17, 20212 min read
Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.
Google

Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.

Western governments and institutions struggling to formulate principles of algorithmic fairness tend to focus on issues like race and gender. A new study of AI in India found a different set of key issues.

February 10, 20212 min read
Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.
Google

Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.

Western governments and institutions struggling to formulate principles of algorithmic fairness tend to focus on issues like race and gender. A new study of AI in India found a different set of key issues.

February 10, 20212 min read

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