AI Sees Race in X-Rays
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AI Sees Race in X-Rays

Researchers from Emory University, MIT, Purdue University, and other institutions found that deep learning systems trained to interpret x-rays and CT scans also were able to identify their subjects as Asian, Black, or White.

August 11, 20212 min read
AI Sees Race in X-Rays
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AI Sees Race in X-Rays

Researchers from Emory University, MIT, Purdue University, and other institutions found that deep learning systems trained to interpret x-rays and CT scans also were able to identify their subjects as Asian, Black, or White.

August 11, 20212 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
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Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
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Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Insurance Coverage for AI: Medicare covers AI stroke detection.
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Insurance Coverage for AI: Medicare covers AI stroke detection.

The U.S. government’s largest national health insurance plan will pay for hospital use of a deep learning model, building momentum for AI to become an integral part of the doctor’s toolkit.

August 6, 20212 min read
Insurance Coverage for AI: Medicare covers AI stroke detection.
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Insurance Coverage for AI: Medicare covers AI stroke detection.

The U.S. government’s largest national health insurance plan will pay for hospital use of a deep learning model, building momentum for AI to become an integral part of the doctor’s toolkit.

August 6, 20212 min read
Olympic AI: 2020 Tokyo Olympics times athletes using AI.
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Olympic AI: 2020 Tokyo Olympics times athletes using AI.

Computer vision is keeping a close eye on athletes at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Omega Timing, a Swiss watchmaker and the Olympic Games’ official timekeeper, is providing systems that go far beyond measuring milliseconds.

August 4, 20211 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
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Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
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Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Olympic AI: 2020 Tokyo Olympics times athletes using AI.
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Olympic AI: 2020 Tokyo Olympics times athletes using AI.

Computer vision is keeping a close eye on athletes at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Omega Timing, a Swiss watchmaker and the Olympic Games’ official timekeeper, is providing systems that go far beyond measuring milliseconds.

August 4, 20211 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Fake Aim: Gamers cheat with AI-powered aim assist.
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Fake Aim: Gamers cheat with AI-powered aim assist.

Gamers looking to cheat in first-person shooters can’t miss with AI-assisted marksmanship. A video-game hack uses computer vision to blast virtual enemies at superhuman speed, Ars Technica reported.

July 28, 20211 min read
Fake Aim: Gamers cheat with AI-powered aim assist.
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Fake Aim: Gamers cheat with AI-powered aim assist.

Gamers looking to cheat in first-person shooters can’t miss with AI-assisted marksmanship. A video-game hack uses computer vision to blast virtual enemies at superhuman speed, Ars Technica reported.

July 28, 20211 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes
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One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes

To reconstruct the 3D world behind a set of 2D images, machine learning systems usually require a dedicated neural network for each scene. New research enables a single trained network to generate 3D reconstructions of multiple scenes.

July 21, 20212 min read

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