Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.
Google

Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.

When the chips are down, humans can track critical details without being distracted by irrelevancies. New research helps reinforcement learning models similarly focus on the most important details.

July 29, 20202 min read
Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.
Google

Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.

Baidu backed out of a U.S.-led effort to promote ethics in AI, leaving the project without a Chinese presence. The Beijing-based search giant withdrew from the Partnership on AI, a consortium that promotes cooperation on issues like digital privacy and algorithmic bias.

June 24, 20201 min read
Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.
Google

Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.

Baidu backed out of a U.S.-led effort to promote ethics in AI, leaving the project without a Chinese presence. The Beijing-based search giant withdrew from the Partnership on AI, a consortium that promotes cooperation on issues like digital privacy and algorithmic bias.

June 24, 20201 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Google

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Google

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.
Google

Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

May 27, 20202 min read
Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.
Google

Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

May 27, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Google

Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Google

Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Google

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning
Google

Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning

Few-shot learning seeks to build models that adapt to novel tasks based on small numbers of training examples. This sort of learning typically involves complicated techniques, but researchers achieved state-of-the-art results using a simpler approach.

May 20, 20202 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Google

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning
Google

Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning

Few-shot learning seeks to build models that adapt to novel tasks based on small numbers of training examples. This sort of learning typically involves complicated techniques, but researchers achieved state-of-the-art results using a simpler approach.

May 20, 20202 min read
Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.
Google

Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.

Human teachers can teach more effectively by adjusting their methods in response to student feedback. It turns out that teacher networks can do the same.

May 13, 20202 min read
Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.
Google

Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.

Human teachers can teach more effectively by adjusting their methods in response to student feedback. It turns out that teacher networks can do the same.

May 13, 20202 min read

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