Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.
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Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.

An independent test found flaws in AI systems designed to evaluate job applicants. MyInterview and Curious Thing, which automate job interviews, gave a candidate who spoke only in German high marks on English proficiency, according to MIT Technology Review.

July 14, 20212 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
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CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
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CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.
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Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.

An independent test found flaws in AI systems designed to evaluate job applicants. MyInterview and Curious Thing, which automate job interviews, gave a candidate who spoke only in German high marks on English proficiency, according to MIT Technology Review.

July 14, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
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I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
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I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.
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Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.

Real estate websites helped turn automated real-estate assessment into a classic AI problem. The latest approach by a leader in the field gets a boost from deep learning.

July 7, 20212 min read
Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.
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Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.

Real estate websites helped turn automated real-estate assessment into a classic AI problem. The latest approach by a leader in the field gets a boost from deep learning.

July 7, 20212 min read
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
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One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.

Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.

June 2, 20212 min read
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
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One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.

Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.

June 2, 20212 min read
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
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Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.

A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.

May 26, 20212 min read
Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.

Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.

May 26, 20211 min read
Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.

Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.

May 26, 20211 min read
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
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Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.

A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.

May 26, 20212 min read
24/7 Phish Fry: How Nestle built an AI-Powered phishing detector with Azure.
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24/7 Phish Fry: How Nestle built an AI-Powered phishing detector with Azure.

Foiling attackers who try to lure email users into clicking on a malicious link is a cat-and-mouse game, as phishing tactics evolve to evade detection. But machine learning models designed to recognize phishing attempts can evolve, too, through automatic retraining and checks to maintain accuracy.

May 12, 20212 min read

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