The World Cup's AI Referee
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The World Cup's AI Referee

The outcome of the FIFA World Cup 2022 depends on learning algorithms. The annual championship tournament of football, which wraps up this week, is using machine learning to help human arbiters spot players who break a rule that governs their locations on the field.

December 14, 20222 min read
The World Cup's AI Referee
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The World Cup's AI Referee

The outcome of the FIFA World Cup 2022 depends on learning algorithms. The annual championship tournament of football, which wraps up this week, is using machine learning to help human arbiters spot players who break a rule that governs their locations on the field.

December 14, 20222 min read
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
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Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
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Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read
What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events
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What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events

Neural networks can describe in words what’s happening in pictures and videos — but can they make sensible guesses about things that happened before or will happen afterward? Researchers probed this ability.

November 16, 20223 min read
What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events
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What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events

Neural networks can describe in words what’s happening in pictures and videos — but can they make sensible guesses about things that happened before or will happen afterward? Researchers probed this ability.

November 16, 20223 min read
Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts
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Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts

Neural networks are helping humanitarian observers measure the extent of war damage to Ukraine’s grain crop. Analysts from the Yale School of Public Health and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a computer vision model that detects grain-storage facilities in aerial photos.

November 2, 20222 min read
Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts
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Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts

Neural networks are helping humanitarian observers measure the extent of war damage to Ukraine’s grain crop. Analysts from the Yale School of Public Health and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a computer vision model that detects grain-storage facilities in aerial photos.

November 2, 20222 min read
Smarts for Farms: Microsoft Open Sources AI Systems for Agriculture
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Smarts for Farms: Microsoft Open Sources AI Systems for Agriculture

The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. Microsoft open-sourced a set of AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields.

October 19, 20222 min read
Smarts for Farms: Microsoft Open Sources AI Systems for Agriculture
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Smarts for Farms: Microsoft Open Sources AI Systems for Agriculture

The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. Microsoft open-sourced a set of AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields.

October 19, 20222 min read
Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand
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Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand

The ability to predict customer demand could make fast food even faster. The Mexican-themed Chipotle restaurant chain is testing AI tools that forecast demand, monitor ingredients, and ensure that workers fill orders correctly.

October 12, 20222 min read
Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand
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Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand

The ability to predict customer demand could make fast food even faster. The Mexican-themed Chipotle restaurant chain is testing AI tools that forecast demand, monitor ingredients, and ensure that workers fill orders correctly.

October 12, 20222 min read
Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage
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Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage

A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.

October 12, 20222 min read
Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage
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Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage

A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.

October 12, 20222 min read
The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
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The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon

Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.

October 5, 20222 min read

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