Gradient Descent: It’s All Downhill - Gradient Descent for Machine Learning
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Gradient Descent: It’s All Downhill - Gradient Descent for Machine Learning

Imagine hiking in the mountains past dusk and finding that you can’t see much beyond your feet. And your phone’s battery died so you can’t use a GPS app to find your way home. You might find the quickest path down via gradient descent.

May 25, 20222 min read
Gradient Descent: It’s All Downhill - Gradient Descent for Machine Learning
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Gradient Descent: It’s All Downhill - Gradient Descent for Machine Learning

Imagine hiking in the mountains past dusk and finding that you can’t see much beyond your feet. And your phone’s battery died so you can’t use a GPS app to find your way home. You might find the quickest path down via gradient descent.

May 25, 20222 min read
Logistic Regression: Follow the Curve — A Basic Introduction to Logistic Regression for Machine Learning
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Logistic Regression: Follow the Curve — A Basic Introduction to Logistic Regression for Machine Learning

There was a moment when logistic regression was used to classify just one thing: If you drink a vial of poison, are you likely to be labeled “living” or “deceased”? Times have changed.

May 25, 20222 min read
Logistic Regression: Follow the Curve — A Basic Introduction to Logistic Regression for Machine Learning
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Logistic Regression: Follow the Curve — A Basic Introduction to Logistic Regression for Machine Learning

There was a moment when logistic regression was used to classify just one thing: If you drink a vial of poison, are you likely to be labeled “living” or “deceased”? Times have changed.

May 25, 20222 min read
Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries
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Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries

A wearable device may help warehouse workers avoid injuries. Modjoul, maker of a system that evaluates risks to people engaged in physical labor, received an undisclosed sum from Amazon as part of a $1 billion investment in technologies that might enhance the retailer giant’s operations.

May 18, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
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One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
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One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data
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When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data

Amid rising social tension in the United States over reproductive freedom, a company that analyzes location data on abortion clinics stopped distributing its findings after a critical press report.

May 18, 20222 min read
Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries
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Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries

A wearable device may help warehouse workers avoid injuries. Modjoul, maker of a system that evaluates risks to people engaged in physical labor, received an undisclosed sum from Amazon as part of a $1 billion investment in technologies that might enhance the retailer giant’s operations.

May 18, 20222 min read
When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data
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When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data

Amid rising social tension in the United States over reproductive freedom, a company that analyzes location data on abortion clinics stopped distributing its findings after a critical press report.

May 18, 20222 min read
GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
Nurse’s Mechanical Helper: Inside the Moxi AI-Powered Hospital Robot
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Nurse’s Mechanical Helper: Inside the Moxi AI-Powered Hospital Robot

Hospitals are using robots to lighten the load on clinical staff. A number of U.S. hospitals are using Moxi, a robot from Diligent Robotics, to ferry supplies, lab specimens, soiled laundry, and other items.

May 11, 20222 min read
GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
Nurse’s Mechanical Helper: Inside the Moxi AI-Powered Hospital Robot
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Nurse’s Mechanical Helper: Inside the Moxi AI-Powered Hospital Robot

Hospitals are using robots to lighten the load on clinical staff. A number of U.S. hospitals are using Moxi, a robot from Diligent Robotics, to ferry supplies, lab specimens, soiled laundry, and other items.

May 11, 20222 min read
Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony
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Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony

In Beijing, self-driving cars are rolling without a driver behind the wheel. China’s capital city authorized Pony.ai and Apollo Go, a Baidu subsidiary, to deploy self-driving taxis without a human in the driver’s seat.

May 4, 20221 min read

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