That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Transformer

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read
AI Makes Headlines: Primer introduces an automated headline generator.
Transformer

AI Makes Headlines: Primer introduces an automated headline generator.

Which headline was written by a computer? A: FIFA to Decide on 2022 World Cup in March B: Decision in March on 48-team 2022 World Cup, Says Infantino

July 15, 20202 min read
AI Makes Headlines: Primer introduces an automated headline generator.
Transformer

AI Makes Headlines: Primer introduces an automated headline generator.

Which headline was written by a computer? A: FIFA to Decide on 2022 World Cup in March B: Decision in March on 48-team 2022 World Cup, Says Infantino

July 15, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Transformer

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read
Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection
Transformer

Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection

The transformer architecture that has shaken up natural language processing may replace recurrent layers in object detection networks. A Facebook team led by Nicolas Carion and Francisco Massa simplified object detection pipelines by using transformers, yielding Detection Transformer (DETR).

July 8, 20201 min read
Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection
Transformer

Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection

The transformer architecture that has shaken up natural language processing may replace recurrent layers in object detection networks. A Facebook team led by Nicolas Carion and Francisco Massa simplified object detection pipelines by using transformers, yielding Detection Transformer (DETR).

July 8, 20201 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
Transformer

Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
Transformer

Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
Transformer

Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Transformer

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
Transformer

Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Transformer

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Transformer

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Transformer

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read
Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot
Transformer

Big Bot Makes Small Talk: A research summary of Facebook's Generative BST chatbot

Facebook recently rolled out its entry in the World’s Biggest Chatbot sweepstakes. In keeping with the company’s social-networking dominance, the bot is designed to excel at chitchat on any subject.

May 27, 20202 min read

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