Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
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Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.

Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.

February 19, 20202 min read
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
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Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers

Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
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Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers

Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
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Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.
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That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.

In an online dating profile, the photo that highlights your physical beauty may not be the one that makes you look smart or honest — also important traits in a significant other. A new neural network helps pick the most appealing shots.

February 12, 20202 min read
That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.
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That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.

In an online dating profile, the photo that highlights your physical beauty may not be the one that makes you look smart or honest — also important traits in a significant other. A new neural network helps pick the most appealing shots.

February 12, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
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Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
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Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
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Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
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Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.
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Hunting Online Drug Dealers: AI identifies drug dealers on Instagram.

Can machine learning help address the scourge of opioid addiction? A public health researcher developed a neural network that spots sellers of opioids on social media, Recode reported.

January 29, 20201 min read
Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.
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Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.

End-to-end backpropagation and labeled data are the peanut butter and chocolate of deep learning. However, recent work suggests that neither is necessary to train effective neural networks to represent complex data.

January 22, 20202 min read
Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.
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Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.

End-to-end backpropagation and labeled data are the peanut butter and chocolate of deep learning. However, recent work suggests that neither is necessary to train effective neural networks to represent complex data.

January 22, 20202 min read
Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
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Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.

Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.

January 8, 20202 min read
ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet
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ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet

Computer scientists are struggling to purge bias from one of AI’s most important datasets. ImageNet’s 14 million photos are a go-to collection for training computer-vision systems, yet their descriptive labels have been rife with derogatory and stereotyped attitudes toward race, gender, and sex.

January 8, 20202 min read

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