AI Grading Doesn’t Make the Grade: The UK canceled its plan for AI-generated grading.
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AI Grading Doesn’t Make the Grade: The UK canceled its plan for AI-generated grading.

The UK government abandoned a plan to use machine learning to assess students for higher education. The UK Department of Education discarded grades generated by an algorithm designed to predict performance on the annual Advanced Level qualifications, which had been canceled due to the pandemic.

August 26, 20202 min read
AI Grading Doesn’t Make the Grade: The UK canceled its plan for AI-generated grading.
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AI Grading Doesn’t Make the Grade: The UK canceled its plan for AI-generated grading.

The UK government abandoned a plan to use machine learning to assess students for higher education. The UK Department of Education discarded grades generated by an algorithm designed to predict performance on the annual Advanced Level qualifications, which had been canceled due to the pandemic.

August 26, 20202 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.
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Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.

The ocean contains distinct ecosystems, but they’re much harder to see than terrestrial forests or savannas. A new model helps scientists better understand patterns of undersea life, which is threatened by pollution, invasive species, and warming temperatures.

June 10, 20201 min read
Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.
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Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.

The ocean contains distinct ecosystems, but they’re much harder to see than terrestrial forests or savannas. A new model helps scientists better understand patterns of undersea life, which is threatened by pollution, invasive species, and warming temperatures.

June 10, 20201 min read
Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes
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Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes

In any training dataset, some classes may have relatively few examples. A new technique can improve a trained model’s performance on such underrepresented classes. Researchers introduced a method that synthesizes extracted features of underrepresented classes.

June 10, 20202 min read
Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes
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Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes

In any training dataset, some classes may have relatively few examples. A new technique can improve a trained model’s performance on such underrepresented classes. Researchers introduced a method that synthesizes extracted features of underrepresented classes.

June 10, 20202 min read
Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.
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Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

May 27, 20202 min read
Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.
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Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

May 27, 20202 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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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.

May 20, 20201 min read
Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure
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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.

May 20, 20201 min read
Crowdsourcing a Cure: Covid Moonshot, the crowdsourced effort to find a cure
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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.

May 20, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
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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.

May 20, 20201 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
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Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read

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