Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
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Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
Tech & Society

Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.
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Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.

Autonomous weapons are often viewed as an alarming potential consequence of advances in AI — but they may already have been used in combat. Libyan forces unleashed armed drones capable of choosing their own targets against a breakaway rebel faction last year.

June 2, 20212 min read
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
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Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.

A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.

May 26, 20212 min read
Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.

Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.

May 26, 20211 min read
Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.

Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.

May 26, 20211 min read
Face Recognition for the Masses: PimEyes is reverse image search for face recognition.
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Face Recognition for the Masses: PimEyes is reverse image search for face recognition.

Face recognition tech tends to be marketed to government agencies, but PimEyes offers a web app that lets anyone scan the internet for photos of themself — or anyone they have a picture of. The company says it aims to help people control their online presence and fight identity theft.

May 26, 20212 min read
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
Tech & Society

Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.

A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.

May 26, 20212 min read
Face Recognition for the Masses: PimEyes is reverse image search for face recognition.
Tech & Society

Face Recognition for the Masses: PimEyes is reverse image search for face recognition.

Face recognition tech tends to be marketed to government agencies, but PimEyes offers a web app that lets anyone scan the internet for photos of themself — or anyone they have a picture of. The company says it aims to help people control their online presence and fight identity theft.

May 26, 20212 min read
Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.

A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

May 19, 20211 min read
Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.

A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

May 19, 20211 min read
ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps
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ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps

Deploying models for practical use is an industrial concern that generally goes unaddressed in research. As a result, publications on the subject tend to come from the major AI companies.

May 12, 20212 min read
ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps
Tech & Society

ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps

Deploying models for practical use is an industrial concern that generally goes unaddressed in research. As a result, publications on the subject tend to come from the major AI companies.

May 12, 20212 min read
MLOps for All: Google Cloud's Craig Wiley on how he builds AI products.
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MLOps for All: Google Cloud's Craig Wiley on how he builds AI products.

Craig Wiley has journeyed from the hand-deployed models of yore to the pinnacle of automated AI. Today, as chief product manager of Google Cloud’s AI services, he’s making advanced tools and processes available to anyone with a credit card.

May 12, 20213 min read
MLOps for All: Google Cloud's Craig Wiley on how he builds AI products.
Tech & Society

MLOps for All: Google Cloud's Craig Wiley on how he builds AI products.

Craig Wiley has journeyed from the hand-deployed models of yore to the pinnacle of automated AI. Today, as chief product manager of Google Cloud’s AI services, he’s making advanced tools and processes available to anyone with a credit card.

May 12, 20213 min read

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