Business
Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19
Covid-19 wreaked havoc with models that predict retail sales — but China’s biggest annual e-commerce event showed that they’re back in business.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
Selective Attention: More efficient NLP training without sacrificing performance
Large transformer networks work wonders with natural language, but they require enormous amounts of computation. New research slashes processor cycles without compromising performance.
Tech & Society
Charting the AI Patent Explosion: AI patents doubled between 2012 and 2019.
A new study used AI to track the explosive growth of AI innovation. Researchers from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deployed natural language processing to track AI’s increasing presence in four decades of patent data.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Predicts the Vote, Face Recognition Looks for Criminals, Model Cow Makes Milk, Transformers Prove Theorems
Beating human-level performance (HLP) has been a goal of academic research in machine learning from speech recognition to X-ray diagnosis. When your model outperforms humans, you can argue that you’ve reached a significant milestone and publish a paper!
Letters
AI Versus Human-Level Performance
Beating human-level performance (HLP) has been a goal of academic research in machine learning from speech recognition to X-ray diagnosis. When your model outperforms humans, you can argue that you’ve reached a significant milestone and publish a paper!
Tech & Society
AI Versus Voters: The companies using AI to predict elections
Major polling organizations took a drubbing in the press after they failed to predict the outcome in last week’s U.S. elections. At least one AI-powered model fared much better.
Machine Learning Research
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.
Business
Got Model?: How NotMilk used AI to create its dairy-free milk recipe
Who needs cows when you can make milk from scratch? NotMilk, a dairy-free milk substitute that was designed with help from a deep learning model, made its debut in American grocery stores.
Tech & Society
That Kid Looks Like a Criminal: Conarc face recognition contained children's personal info.
In Argentina, a municipal face recognition system could misidentify children as suspected lawbreakers. Authorities in Buenos Aires are scanning subway riders’ faces to find offenders in a database of suspects but the system mixes criminal records with personal information about minors.
Business
Building Sites Meld Real and Virtual: Buildots creates digital twins using computer vision.
Everyday cameras and computer vision algorithms are digitizing construction projects to keep builders on schedule. Based in Tel Aviv, Buildots maps output from building-site cameras onto simulations of the work n progress, enabling construction managers to monitor progress remotely.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Turning Tables on Face Recognition, Testing GPT-3, Recognizing Disinformation, Detecting Deepfakes
As I write this letter, the vote count is underway in yesterday’s U.S. presidential election. The race has turned out to be tight. In their final forecast last night, the political analysts at fivethirtyeight.com suggested an 89 percent chance that Joe Biden would win.
Letters
How to Think About Probabilities
As I write this letter, the vote count is underway in yesterday’s U.S. presidential election. The race has turned out to be tight. In their final forecast last night, the political analysts at fivethirtyeight.com suggested an 89 percent chance that Joe Biden would win.