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
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
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Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers

The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces

October 13, 20211 min read
Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
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Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data

Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
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Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data

Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Only Safe Drivers Get Self-Driving: Tesla Opens Beta Test of Full Self Driving Feature
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Only Safe Drivers Get Self-Driving: Tesla Opens Beta Test of Full Self Driving Feature

Tesla’s autonomous driving capability has inspired hair-raising antics on the road. Now the company is deploying an algorithm to determine whether customers have shown sufficiently sound judgement to use its “Full Self-Driving” software.

October 6, 20212 min read
Only Safe Drivers Get Self-Driving: Tesla Opens Beta Test of Full Self Driving Feature
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Only Safe Drivers Get Self-Driving: Tesla Opens Beta Test of Full Self Driving Feature

Tesla’s autonomous driving capability has inspired hair-raising antics on the road. Now the company is deploying an algorithm to determine whether customers have shown sufficiently sound judgement to use its “Full Self-Driving” software.

October 6, 20212 min read
More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems
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More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems

In machine learning, an easy task and a more difficult version of the same task — say, a maze that covers a smaller or larger area — often are learned separately.

September 29, 20212 min read
More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems
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More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems

In machine learning, an easy task and a more difficult version of the same task — say, a maze that covers a smaller or larger area — often are learned separately.

September 29, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
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Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
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Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet
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Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet

Deep learning is helping to protect elderly people from potentially catastrophic tumbles.What’s happening: More than 2,000 senior living facilities across the U.S. use a diagnostic system called VirtuSense Balance

September 15, 20211 min read
Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet
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Risk Reduction for Elders: AI System Helps Elderly Stay on Their Feet

Deep learning is helping to protect elderly people from potentially catastrophic tumbles.What’s happening: More than 2,000 senior living facilities across the U.S. use a diagnostic system called VirtuSense Balance

September 15, 20211 min read
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers

The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google

September 8, 20212 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read

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