Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.
UC Berkeley

Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.

Transformer networks have revolutionized natural language processing, but they hog processor cycles and memory. New research demonstrates a more frugal variation.

March 4, 20202 min read
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
UC Berkeley

Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
UC Berkeley

Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
UC Berkeley

Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
UC Berkeley

Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
UC Berkeley

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
UC Berkeley

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
UC Berkeley

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
UC Berkeley

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Facing Down Deepfakes
UC Berkeley

Facing Down Deepfakes

Deepfakes threaten to undermine law and order, perhaps democracy itself. A coalition of tech companies, nonprofits, and academics joined forces to counter potential adverse impacts.

September 11, 20191 min read
Facing Down Deepfakes
UC Berkeley

Facing Down Deepfakes

Deepfakes threaten to undermine law and order, perhaps democracy itself. A coalition of tech companies, nonprofits, and academics joined forces to counter potential adverse impacts.

September 11, 20191 min read

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