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One of the best gifts a friend gave me last year was recommending a book that I subsequently read and loved. She didn’t even have to buy it for me!
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The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Steals CES, Hollywood Predicts Blockbusters, Washington Regulates AI, Neural Nets Study Math
One of the best gifts a friend gave me last year was recommending a book that I subsequently read and loved. She didn’t even have to buy it for me! The right information at the right time can have a powerful impact. It can alter the course of a project or even a career.
Machine Learning Research
Easy on the Eyes: More accurate object detection with EfficientDet
Researchers aiming to increase accuracy in object detection generally enlarge the network, but that approach also boosts computational cost. A novel architecture sets a new state of the art in accuracy while cutting the compute cycles required.
Tech & Society
Tracking AI’s Global Growth: The 2019 AI Index tracks the industry's worldwide growth.
Which countries are ahead in AI? Many, in one way or another, and not always the ones you might expect. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence published its 2019 Artificial Intelligence Index, detailing when, where, and how AI is on the rise.
Science
Cancer in the Crosshairs: An AI model beat humans in diagnosing breast cancer from X-rays, but critics found the study lacking.
Computer vision has potential to spot cancer earlier and more accurately than human experts. A new system surpassed human accuracy in trials, but critics aren’t convinced.
Tech & Society
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.
Machine Learning Research
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.
Tech & Society
ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet
Computer scientists are struggling to purge bias from one of AI’s most important datasets. ImageNet’s 14 million photos are a go-to collection for training computer-vision systems, yet their descriptive labels have been rife with derogatory and stereotyped attitudes toward race, gender, and sex.
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Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera
Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally
Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them. Different companies organize their teams differently and...
The Batch Newsletter
Hopes for AI in 2020: Yann LeCun, Kai-Fu Lee, Anima Anandkumar, Richard Socher
Happy New Year! Every winter holiday, I pursue a learning goal around a new topic. In between visits with family, I end up reading a lot. About a decade ago, my holiday topic was pedagogy — I still remember lugging a heavy suitcase of books through the airport — and this...
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The Key to Longevity
Happy New Year!Every winter holiday, I pursue a learning goal around a new topic. In between visits with family, I end up reading a lot.