Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
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Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

February 24, 20212 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
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Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

February 24, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
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Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
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Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

February 17, 20212 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
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Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
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Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.
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Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.

For children, associating a word with a picture that illustrates it helps them learn the word’s meaning. Research aims to do something similar for machine learning models. Researchers improved a BERT model’s performance on some language tasks by training it on a large dataset of image-word pairs.

February 10, 20212 min read
Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.
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Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.

For children, associating a word with a picture that illustrates it helps them learn the word’s meaning. Research aims to do something similar for machine learning models. Researchers improved a BERT model’s performance on some language tasks by training it on a large dataset of image-word pairs.

February 10, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
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A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read

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