Jan 08, 2020

16 Posts

Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Jan 08, 2020

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.

2 min read
ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet
Jan 08, 2020

ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet

Computer scientists are struggling to purge bias from one of AI’s most important datasets. ImageNet’s 14 million photos are a go-to collection for training computer-vision systems, yet their descriptive labels have been rife with derogatory and stereotyped attitudes toward race, gender, and sex.

2 min read
Tracking AI’s Global Growth: The 2019 AI Index tracks the industry's worldwide growth.
Jan 08, 2020

Tracking AI’s Global Growth: The 2019 AI Index tracks the industry's worldwide growth.

Which countries are ahead in AI? Many, in one way or another, and not always the ones you might expect. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence published its 2019 Artificial Intelligence Index, detailing when, where, and how AI is on the rise.

1 min read
Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet
Jan 08, 2020

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.

2 min read
Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet
Jan 08, 2020

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.

2 min read
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Jan 08, 2020

Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

1 min read
ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet
Jan 08, 2020

ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet

Computer scientists are struggling to purge bias from one of AI’s most important datasets. ImageNet’s 14 million photos are a go-to collection for training computer-vision systems, yet their descriptive labels have been rife with derogatory and stereotyped attitudes toward race, gender, and sex.

2 min read
Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera
Jan 08, 2020

Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera

Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them.

1 min read
The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally
Jan 08, 2020

The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally

Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them. Different companies organize their teams differently and...

11 min read
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Jan 08, 2020

Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes

Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.

1 min read
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
Jan 08, 2020

Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.

The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.

2 min read
Tracking AI’s Global Growth: The 2019 AI Index tracks the industry's worldwide growth.
Jan 08, 2020

Tracking AI’s Global Growth: The 2019 AI Index tracks the industry's worldwide growth.

Which countries are ahead in AI? Many, in one way or another, and not always the ones you might expect. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence published its 2019 Artificial Intelligence Index, detailing when, where, and how AI is on the rise.

1 min read
The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally
Jan 08, 2020

The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally

Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them. Different companies organize their teams differently and...

11 min read
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
Jan 08, 2020

Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.

The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.

2 min read
Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera
Jan 08, 2020

Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera

Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them.

1 min read

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