Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.
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Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.

Some of deep learning’s bedrock datasets came under scrutiny as researchers combed them for built-in biases. Researchers found that popular datasets impart biases against socially marginalized groups to trained models due to the ways the datasets were compiled, labeled, and used.

December 23, 20202 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
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Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
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Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
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The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
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The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Very Short, Did Read: TLDR generates short summaries of scientific articles.
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Very Short, Did Read: TLDR generates short summaries of scientific articles.

A new summarization model boils down AI research papers to a single sentence. TLDR from Allen Institute for AI creates at-a-glance summaries of scientific research papers. It’s up and running at Semantic Scholar, a research database, where searches now return its pithy precis.

November 25, 20202 min read
Very Short, Did Read: TLDR generates short summaries of scientific articles.
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Very Short, Did Read: TLDR generates short summaries of scientific articles.

A new summarization model boils down AI research papers to a single sentence. TLDR from Allen Institute for AI creates at-a-glance summaries of scientific research papers. It’s up and running at Semantic Scholar, a research database, where searches now return its pithy precis.

November 25, 20202 min read
Selective Attention: More efficient NLP training without sacrificing performance
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Selective Attention: More efficient NLP training without sacrificing performance

Large transformer networks work wonders with natural language, but they require enormous amounts of computation. New research slashes processor cycles without compromising performance.

November 18, 20201 min read
Selective Attention: More efficient NLP training without sacrificing performance
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Selective Attention: More efficient NLP training without sacrificing performance

Large transformer networks work wonders with natural language, but they require enormous amounts of computation. New research slashes processor cycles without compromising performance.

November 18, 20201 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
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The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
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The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read

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