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
More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm
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More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm

The United States space agency is upgrading the system that pilots its helicopter on the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Ingenuity, a drone sent to Mars as part of its 2020 mission to Mars, will receive a new collision-avoidance algorithm.

June 29, 20222 min read
More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm
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More Autonomy for Martian Drone: NASA Upgrades Ingenuity Rover's Navigation Algorithm

The United States space agency is upgrading the system that pilots its helicopter on the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Ingenuity, a drone sent to Mars as part of its 2020 mission to Mars, will receive a new collision-avoidance algorithm.

June 29, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs
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Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs

An object detector trained exclusively on urban images might mistake a moose for a pedestrian and express high confidence in its poor judgment. New work enables object detectors, and potentially other neural networks, to lower their confidence when they encounter unfamiliar inputs.

June 1, 20222 min read
Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs
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Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs

An object detector trained exclusively on urban images might mistake a moose for a pedestrian and express high confidence in its poor judgment. New work enables object detectors, and potentially other neural networks, to lower their confidence when they encounter unfamiliar inputs.

June 1, 20222 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
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Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
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Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
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One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
Upgrade for Vision Transformers: Improved Efficiency for Vision Transformers
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Upgrade for Vision Transformers: Improved Efficiency for Vision Transformers

Vision Transformer and models like it use a lot of computation and memory when processing images. New work modifies these architectures to run more efficiently while adopting helpful properties from convolutions.

May 18, 20222 min read
Upgrade for Vision Transformers: Improved Efficiency for Vision Transformers
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Upgrade for Vision Transformers: Improved Efficiency for Vision Transformers

Vision Transformer and models like it use a lot of computation and memory when processing images. New work modifies these architectures to run more efficiently while adopting helpful properties from convolutions.

May 18, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
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One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read

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