Mar 31, 2021

14 Posts

Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.
Mar 31, 2021

Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.

A digital doppelgänger of Star Trek’s original star will let fans chat with him — possibly well beyond his lifetime. AI startup StoryFile built a lifelike videobot of actor William Shatner, best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek.

1 min read
Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.
Mar 31, 2021

Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.

U.S. authorities are investigating Tesla’s self-driving technology. Federal regulators launched a probe of nearly two dozen accidents, some of them fatal, that involved Tesla vehicles equipped for self-driving.

2 min read
Tesla Under Investigation, Star Trek: The Chatbot, Attention For Vision Models, Spies Embrace AI
Mar 31, 2021

Tesla Under Investigation, Star Trek: The Chatbot, Attention For Vision Models, Spies Embrace AI

I have a two-year-old daughter, and am expecting my son to be born later this week. When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is...

9 min read
Tesla Under Investigation, Star Trek: The Chatbot, Attention For Vision Models, Spies Embrace AI
Mar 31, 2021

Tesla Under Investigation, Star Trek: The Chatbot, Attention For Vision Models, Spies Embrace AI

I have a two-year-old daughter, and am expecting my son to be born later this week. When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is...

9 min read
On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.
Mar 31, 2021

On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.

The UK’s electronic surveillance agency published its plan to use AI. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) outlined its intention to use machine learning to combat security threats, human trafficking, and disinformation — and to do so ethically — in a new report.

1 min read
Coursera Goes Public
Mar 31, 2021

Coursera Goes Public

I have a two-year-old daughter, and am expecting my son to be born later this week. When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is to create a foundation for education.

2 min read
On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.
Mar 31, 2021

On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.

The UK’s electronic surveillance agency published its plan to use AI. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) outlined its intention to use machine learning to combat security threats, human trafficking, and disinformation — and to do so ethically — in a new report.

1 min read
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Mar 31, 2021

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

2 min read
Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
Mar 31, 2021

Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.

Self-attention is a key element in state-of-the-art language models, but it struggles to process images because its memory requirement rises rapidly with the size of the input. New research addresses the issue with a simple twist on a convolutional neural network.

2 min read
Coursera Goes Public
Mar 31, 2021

Coursera Goes Public

I have a two-year-old daughter, and am expecting my son to be born later this week. When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is to create a foundation for education.

2 min read
Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.
Mar 31, 2021

Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.

A digital doppelgänger of Star Trek’s original star will let fans chat with him — possibly well beyond his lifetime. AI startup StoryFile built a lifelike videobot of actor William Shatner, best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek.

1 min read
Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.
Mar 31, 2021

Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.

U.S. authorities are investigating Tesla’s self-driving technology. Federal regulators launched a probe of nearly two dozen accidents, some of them fatal, that involved Tesla vehicles equipped for self-driving.

2 min read
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Mar 31, 2021

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

2 min read
Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
Mar 31, 2021

Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.

Self-attention is a key element in state-of-the-art language models, but it struggles to process images because its memory requirement rises rapidly with the size of the input. New research addresses the issue with a simple twist on a convolutional neural network.

2 min read

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