Jan 13, 2021
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.
Jan 13, 2021
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Jan 13, 2021
Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.
When you’re training a deep learning model, it can take days for an optimization algorithm to minimize the loss function. A new approach could save time.
Jan 13, 2021
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.
Jan 13, 2021
It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning
World models, which learn a compressed representation of a dynamic environment like, say, a video game, have delivered top results in reinforcement learning. A new method makes them much smaller.
Jan 13, 2021
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.
Jan 13, 2021
The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered...
Jan 13, 2021
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.
Jan 13, 2021
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.
Jan 13, 2021
Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.
When you’re training a deep learning model, it can take days for an optimization algorithm to minimize the loss function. A new approach could save time.
Jan 13, 2021
How AI Can Strengthen Democracy
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election.
Jan 13, 2021
The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered...
Jan 13, 2021
It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning
World models, which learn a compressed representation of a dynamic environment like, say, a video game, have delivered top results in reinforcement learning. A new method makes them much smaller.
Jan 13, 2021
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.
Jan 13, 2021
How AI Can Strengthen Democracy
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election.
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