Science
Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.
Israeli and American hospitals are using an algorithm to flag individuals at high risk for Covid-19 complications.
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Machine Learning Research
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.
Tech & Society
Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music
A new generative model croons like Elvis and raps like Eminem. It might even make you think you’re listening to a lost demo by the Beatles. OpenAI released Jukebox, a deep learning system that has generated thousands of songs in styles from country to metal and soul.
Letters
From Proof of Concept to Production
There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of using deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy: That is by taking a photo of the retina and using AI to detect signs of disease.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Pandemic Triage, Asia's AI Advantage, Detecting Deepfakes, Cleaning Oceans, Music Industry in a Box
There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of using deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy: That is by taking a photo of the retina and using AI to detect signs of disease.
Tech & Society
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.
Machine Learning Research
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.
Tech & Society
Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.
A new algorithm can triage programming bugs, highlighting dangerous flaws. Microsoft researchers developed a machine learning model that reads the titles of bug reports and recognizes those describing flaws that compromise security.
Tech & Society
Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones
Deep learning promises to help emergency responders find their way through disaster zones. MIT researchers developed a tool that maps where hurricanes and other calamities have wiped out roads, helping to show aid workers the fastest ways to get to people in need.
Machine Learning Research
Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.
Your body disturbs Wi-Fi signals as you move through them. New research takes advantage of the effect to recognize the presence of people. Yang Liu and colleagues at Syracuse University detected people in a room with a Wi-Fi router by analyzing the signal.
Tech & Society
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.
Letters
Tips for Building Practical Machine learning systems
In an earlier letter, I wrote about the challenge of robustness: A learning algorithm that performs well on test data often doesn’t work well in a practical production environment because the real world turns out to be different than the test set.