May 08, 2019

12 Posts

The Batch: AI With Fashion Sense, Robot Farmers, Schooling Alexa, Sharper Computer Vision
May 08, 2019

The Batch: AI With Fashion Sense, Robot Farmers, Schooling Alexa, Sharper Computer Vision

A first for my three-month-old daughter Nova: an outing to the park. As my mother and I watched her staring at a tree. I realized what a novel experience it must be to see a tree close-up for the first time.

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The Batch: AI With Fashion Sense, Robot Farmers, Schooling Alexa, Sharper Computer Vision
May 08, 2019

The Batch: AI With Fashion Sense, Robot Farmers, Schooling Alexa, Sharper Computer Vision

A first for my three-month-old daughter Nova: an outing to the park. As my mother and I watched her staring at a tree. I realized what a novel experience it must be to see a tree close-up for the first time.

6 min read
Deep Motion
May 08, 2019

Deep Motion

The usual ways to plot a course from one place to another typically entail a trade-off between economy of motion and computation time. Researchers instead used deep learning to find efficient paths quickly.

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Deep Motion
May 08, 2019

Deep Motion

The usual ways to plot a course from one place to another typically entail a trade-off between economy of motion and computation time. Researchers instead used deep learning to find efficient paths quickly.

1 min read
Alex, Open . . . Something
May 08, 2019

Alex, Open . . . Something

If digital assistants had feet, their Achilles heel would be requiring users to remember commands that invoke new skills. Amazon proposes a way to train systems like Alexa to learn new domains incrementally.

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Alex, Open . . . Something
May 08, 2019

Alex, Open . . . Something

If digital assistants had feet, their Achilles heel would be requiring users to remember commands that invoke new skills. Amazon proposes a way to train systems like Alexa to learn new domains incrementally.

1 min read
Convolution Plus
May 08, 2019

Convolution Plus

The technique known as attention has yielded spectacular results in speech and natural language tasks. Now researchers have shown that it can improve image recognizers as well.

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Convolution Plus
May 08, 2019

Convolution Plus

The technique known as attention has yielded spectacular results in speech and natural language tasks. Now researchers have shown that it can improve image recognizers as well.

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Old MacDonald Had a Bot
May 08, 2019

Old MacDonald Had a Bot

A California grocer is stocking produce grown by robots, a sign of AI’s growing presence in agriculture.

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Old MacDonald Had a Bot
May 08, 2019

Old MacDonald Had a Bot

A California grocer is stocking produce grown by robots, a sign of AI’s growing presence in agriculture.

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Hope For the Fashion-Challenged
May 08, 2019

Hope For the Fashion-Challenged

Need a quick wardrobe upgrade? Image generation to the rescue! This research project automatically visualizes small changes to clothing that make the wearer look more fashionable.

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Hope For the Fashion-Challenged
May 08, 2019

Hope For the Fashion-Challenged

Need a quick wardrobe upgrade? Image generation to the rescue! This research project automatically visualizes small changes to clothing that make the wearer look more fashionable.

1 min read

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