A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Stanford University

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Stanford University

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
Quake Watch: AI model detects earthquakes and estimates epicenters.
Stanford University

Quake Watch: AI model detects earthquakes and estimates epicenters.

Detecting earthquakes is an important step toward warning surrounding communities that damaging seismic waves may be headed their way. A new model detects tremors and provides clues to their epicenter.

January 27, 20212 min read
Quake Watch: AI model detects earthquakes and estimates epicenters.
Stanford University

Quake Watch: AI model detects earthquakes and estimates epicenters.

Detecting earthquakes is an important step toward warning surrounding communities that damaging seismic waves may be headed their way. A new model detects tremors and provides clues to their epicenter.

January 27, 20212 min read
Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI
Stanford University

Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI

The United States has been a leader in science and technology for decades, and all nations have benefitted from its innovations. But U.S. leadership in AI is not guaranteed.

December 30, 20202 min read
Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI
Stanford University

Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI

The United States has been a leader in science and technology for decades, and all nations have benefitted from its innovations. But U.S. leadership in AI is not guaranteed.

December 30, 20202 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
Stanford University

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.
Stanford University

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
Stanford University

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
Stanford University

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
Washington Wrestles with AI: U.S. federal agencies lag at AI uptake
Stanford University

Washington Wrestles with AI: U.S. federal agencies lag at AI uptake

The U.S. government’s effort to take advantage of AI has not lived up to its promise, according to a new report. Implementations of machine learning systems by federal agencies are “uneven at best, and problematic and perhaps dangerous at worst".

November 25, 20202 min read
Washington Wrestles with AI: U.S. federal agencies lag at AI uptake
Stanford University

Washington Wrestles with AI: U.S. federal agencies lag at AI uptake

The U.S. government’s effort to take advantage of AI has not lived up to its promise, according to a new report. Implementations of machine learning systems by federal agencies are “uneven at best, and problematic and perhaps dangerous at worst".

November 25, 20202 min read
Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI
Stanford University

Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI

Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.

October 21, 20201 min read
Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI
Stanford University

Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI

Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.

October 21, 20201 min read
Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models
Stanford University

Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models

Benchmarks provide a scientific basis for evaluating model performance, but they don’t necessarily map well to human cognitive abilities. Facebook aims to close the gap through a dynamic benchmarking method that keeps humans in the loop.

October 14, 20202 min read

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