How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
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Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.

How much processing power do various nations have on hand to drive their AI strategy? An international trade group aims to find out. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is launching an effort to measure the computing capacity available in countries around the world.

February 17, 20211 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
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Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Tech & Society

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.
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Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.

A panel of AI experts appointed by the U.S. government came out against a ban on autonomous weapons. A draft report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommends against a proposed international global prohibition of AI-enabled autonomous weapon systems.

February 17, 20211 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
Tech & Society

Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

February 17, 20212 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
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Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
Tech & Society

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.
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Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.

Amazon is monitoring its delivery drivers with in-vehicle cameras that alert supervisors to dangerous behavior. The online retail giant rolled out a ceiling-mounted surveillance system that flags drivers who, say, read texts, fail to use seatbelts, exceed the speed limit, or ignore a stop sign.

February 10, 20211 min read
Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.
Tech & Society

Eyes On Drivers: Amazon watches delivery drivers with AI-powered cameras.

Amazon is monitoring its delivery drivers with in-vehicle cameras that alert supervisors to dangerous behavior. The online retail giant rolled out a ceiling-mounted surveillance system that flags drivers who, say, read texts, fail to use seatbelts, exceed the speed limit, or ignore a stop sign.

February 10, 20211 min read
Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.
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Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.

Western governments and institutions struggling to formulate principles of algorithmic fairness tend to focus on issues like race and gender. A new study of AI in India found a different set of key issues.

February 10, 20212 min read
Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.
Tech & Society

Fairness East and West: Looking at issues of AI bias and fairness in India.

Western governments and institutions struggling to formulate principles of algorithmic fairness tend to focus on issues like race and gender. A new study of AI in India found a different set of key issues.

February 10, 20212 min read
Tech & Society

Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
Tech & Society

Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.
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Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.

A grassroots research collective aims to make a GPT-3 clone that’s available to everyone. EleutherAI, a loose-knit group of independent researchers, is developing GPT-Neo, an open source, free-to-use version of OpenAI’s gargantuan language model.

February 3, 20211 min read

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