Letters
AI Ethics Must Be Actionable
I’ve been thinking about AI and ethics. With the techlash and an erosion of trust in technology as a positive force, it’s more important than ever that we make sure the AI community acts ethically.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Google AI Explains Itself, Neural Net Fights Bias, AI Demoralizes Champions, Solar Power Heats Up
Recently I wrote about major reasons why AI projects fail, such as small data, robustness, and change management. Given that some AI systems don't work, users and customers sometimes rightly wonder whether they should trust an AI system.
Business
Solar Power Heats Up: How solar thermal plants use AI to maximize energy output
Solar-thermal power plants concentrate the sun’s energy using huge arrays of mirrors. AI is helping those arrays stay in focus.
Machine Learning Research
Bias Fighter: A neural network for countering bias variables in data
Sophisticated models trained on biased data can learn discriminatory patterns, which leads to skewed decisions. A new solution aims to prevent neural networks from making decisions based on common biases.
Science
Prehistoric Pictures Rediscovered: AI image analysis reveals new Nazca drawings in Peru.
Image analysis guided by AI revealed a 2,000-year-old picture dug into the Peruvian desert. Researchers analyzing aerial imagery shot over Peru found a pattern that looks like a three-horned humanoid holding a staff.
Tech & Society
Google's AI Explains Itself: How Google's xAI tools help evaluate model performance
Google's AI platform offers a view into the mind of its machines. Explainable AI (xAI) tools show which features exerted the most influence on a model’s decision, so users can evaluate model performance and potentially mitigate biased results.
Machine Learning Research
Bigger Corpora, Better Answers: Using knowledge graphs to improve question answering NLP
Models that summarize documents and answer questions work pretty well with limited source material, but they can slip into incoherence when they draw from a sizeable corpus. Recent work addresses this problem.
Tech & Society
Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?: How human chess and go masters cope with being beaten by AI
Is there any reason to continue playing games that AI has mastered? Ask the former champions who have been toppled by machines.
Letters
Building Trustworthy AI
Recently I wrote about major reasons why AI projects fail, such as small data, robustness, and change management. Given that some AI systems don't work, users and customers sometimes rightly wonder whether they should trust an AI system.
Business
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Sony Goes AI, Intel's GPU Killers, Transformer Networks In Disguise, Malicious Models Fool Bias Detection
I’ll be spending Thanksgiving with Nova and watching her taste turkey for the first time. To those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you spend time with loved ones, reflect on what you are thankful for, and discuss some very important topics around the dinner table...
Letters
AI Topics for Dinner-Table Discussion
I’ll be spending Thanksgiving with Nova and watching her taste turkey for the first time. To those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you spend time with loved ones, reflect on what you are thankful for, and discuss some very important...