Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish
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Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish

Shinkei Systems developed a machine that uses computer vision to slaughter fish in a way that maximizes their shelf life and flavor.

August 31, 20221 min read
Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish
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Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish

Shinkei Systems developed a machine that uses computer vision to slaughter fish in a way that maximizes their shelf life and flavor.

August 31, 20221 min read
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
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Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes

When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.

August 24, 20222 min read
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
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Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes

When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.

August 24, 20222 min read
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims

From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.

August 10, 20222 min read
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims

From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.

August 10, 20222 min read
Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features
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Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features

The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.

July 29, 20222 min read
Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features
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Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features

The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.

July 29, 20222 min read
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.

July 20, 20222 min read
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.

July 20, 20222 min read
Tradeoffs for Higher Accuracy: Data Augmentation Plus Weight Decay can Boost Some AI Models
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Tradeoffs for Higher Accuracy: Data Augmentation Plus Weight Decay can Boost Some AI Models

Vision models can be improved by training them on several altered versions of the same image and also by encouraging their weights to be close to zero. Recent research showed that both can have adverse effects that may be difficult to detect.

July 13, 20222 min read
Tradeoffs for Higher Accuracy: Data Augmentation Plus Weight Decay can Boost Some AI Models
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Tradeoffs for Higher Accuracy: Data Augmentation Plus Weight Decay can Boost Some AI Models

Vision models can be improved by training them on several altered versions of the same image and also by encouraging their weights to be close to zero. Recent research showed that both can have adverse effects that may be difficult to detect.

July 13, 20222 min read
AI AI, Captain! Mayflower AI Ship Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
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AI AI, Captain! Mayflower AI Ship Crosses the Atlantic Ocean

An autonomous research ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean — with a few pit stops to address challenges along the way. Built by IBM and marine research nonprofit ProMare, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship 400 (MAS400) last week completed a voyage from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts.

July 6, 20222 min read
Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
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Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery

Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.

July 6, 20223 min read
Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
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Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery

Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.

July 6, 20223 min read

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