Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
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Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
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Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
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Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
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Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
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Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
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Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read

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