May 20, 2020

16 Posts

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
May 20, 2020

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

2 min read
Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning
May 20, 2020

Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning

Few-shot learning seeks to build models that adapt to novel tasks based on small numbers of training examples. This sort of learning typically involves complicated techniques, but researchers achieved state-of-the-art results using a simpler approach.

2 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
May 20, 2020

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

1 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
May 20, 2020

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

2 min read
Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning
May 20, 2020

Small Data the Simple Way: A training technique that can outperform few-shot learning

Few-shot learning seeks to build models that adapt to novel tasks based on small numbers of training examples. This sort of learning typically involves complicated techniques, but researchers achieved state-of-the-art results using a simpler approach.

2 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
May 20, 2020

Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

1 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
May 20, 2020

Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

2 min read
Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure
May 20, 2020

Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure

Researchers are drawing up blueprints for drugs to fight Covid-19. Machine learning is identifying those most likely to be effective. Covid Moonshot, an international group of scientists in academia and industry, is crowdsourcing designs for molecules with potential to thwart the coronavirus.

1 min read
Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.
May 20, 2020

Information Warfare Covid Edition: Facebook used humans and AI to spot false Covid claims.

Facebook’s AI can’t spot Covid-19 disinformation on its own. But with human help, it can slow the spread. Facebook uses a combination of humans and neural nets to crack down on messages that make false claims about Covid-19, which may have deadly consequences.

1 min read
The Batch: Covid-19 Infects AI, Learning from Small Data, Generated Music Goes Mainstream, Fighting Pandemic Disinformation
May 20, 2020

The Batch: Covid-19 Infects AI, Learning from Small Data, Generated Music Goes Mainstream, Fighting Pandemic Disinformation

I recently received an email from one of you who lives far from the major AI hubs, saying, “I feel like I’m all alone.” I want to tell you all: Even if it sometimes feels like you’re facing the challenges of work and life in isolation, you are not alone!

10 min read
The Batch: Covid-19 Infects AI, Learning from Small Data, Generated Music Goes Mainstream, Fighting Pandemic Disinformation
May 20, 2020

The Batch: Covid-19 Infects AI, Learning from Small Data, Generated Music Goes Mainstream, Fighting Pandemic Disinformation

I recently received an email from one of you who lives far from the major AI hubs, saying, “I feel like I’m all alone.” I want to tell you all: Even if it sometimes feels like you’re facing the challenges of work and life in isolation, you are not alone!

10 min read
Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure
May 20, 2020

Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure

Researchers are drawing up blueprints for drugs to fight Covid-19. Machine learning is identifying those most likely to be effective. Covid Moonshot, an international group of scientists in academia and industry, is crowdsourcing designs for molecules with potential to thwart the coronavirus.

1 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
May 20, 2020

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

1 min read
Staying Connected Amid the Pandemic
May 20, 2020

Staying Connected Amid the Pandemic

I recently received an email from one of you who lives far from the major AI hubs, saying, “I feel like I’m all alone.” I want to tell you all...

1 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
May 20, 2020

Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

2 min read

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