Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.
Google

Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.

Transformer networks have revolutionized natural language processing, but they hog processor cycles and memory. New research demonstrates a more frugal variation.

March 4, 20202 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
Google

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.

February 19, 20202 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
Google

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.

February 19, 20202 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
Google

Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor

Androids may not dream of electric sheep, but some crack jokes about horses and cows. Meena, a 2.6-billion parameter chatbot developed by Google Brain, showed impressive conversational ability, discussing a variety of topics.

February 5, 20202 min read
Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor
Google

Bot Comic: How Google's Meena chatbot developed a sense of humor

Androids may not dream of electric sheep, but some crack jokes about horses and cows. Meena, a 2.6-billion parameter chatbot developed by Google Brain, showed impressive conversational ability, discussing a variety of topics.

February 5, 20202 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
Google

Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
Google

Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Google

Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.

Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.

January 8, 20202 min read
Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet
Google

Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet

Researchers aiming to increase accuracy in object detection generally enlarge the network, but that approach also boosts computational cost. A novel architecture sets a new state of the art in accuracy while cutting the compute cycles required.

January 8, 20202 min read
Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet
Google

Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet

Researchers aiming to increase accuracy in object detection generally enlarge the network, but that approach also boosts computational cost. A novel architecture sets a new state of the art in accuracy while cutting the compute cycles required.

January 8, 20202 min read
Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Google

Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.

Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.

January 8, 20202 min read
Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP
Google

Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP

Earlier language models powered by Word2Vec and GloVe embeddings yielded confused chatbots, grammar tools with middle-school reading comprehension, and not-half-bad translations. The latest generation is so good, some people consider it dangerous.

December 24, 20192 min read
Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP
Google

Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP

Earlier language models powered by Word2Vec and GloVe embeddings yielded confused chatbots, grammar tools with middle-school reading comprehension, and not-half-bad translations. The latest generation is so good, some people consider it dangerous.

December 24, 20192 min read
Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?
Google

Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?

As language models show increasing power, a parallel trend has received less notice: The vogue for naming models after characters in the children’s TV show Sesame Street.

December 18, 20191 min read
Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?
Google

Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?

As language models show increasing power, a parallel trend has received less notice: The vogue for naming models after characters in the children’s TV show Sesame Street.

December 18, 20191 min read

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