May 08, 2019
Deep Motion
The usual ways to plot a course from one place to another typically entail a trade-off between economy of motion and computation time. Researchers instead used deep learning to find efficient paths quickly.
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May 08, 2019
Alex, Open . . . Something
If digital assistants had feet, their Achilles heel would be requiring users to remember commands that invoke new skills. Amazon proposes a way to train systems like Alexa to learn new domains incrementally.
May 08, 2019
Convolution Plus
The technique known as attention has yielded spectacular results in speech and natural language tasks. Now researchers have shown that it can improve image recognizers as well.
May 08, 2019
Old MacDonald Had a Bot
A California grocer is stocking produce grown by robots, a sign of AI’s growing presence in agriculture.
May 08, 2019
Hope For the Fashion-Challenged
Need a quick wardrobe upgrade? Image generation to the rescue! This research project automatically visualizes small changes to clothing that make the wearer look more fashionable.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Invisibility Cloak For Computer Vision, Algorithmic Music Rocks, Automating Justice
On Monday, I delivered a keynote via teleconference for Dubai's AI Everything conference. It was inspiring to see so many governments, businesses, and social enterprises coming together to talk about AI.
May 01, 2019
Automating Justice
AI tools that help police and courts make decisions about detention, probation, and sentencing have “serious shortcomings," an AI industry consortium warns.
May 01, 2019
Computer Vision for Human Vision
AI is poised to revolutionize diagnosis of eye disease. Articles are piling up in scientific journals heralding computer vision’s success in detecting conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, a common condition that can cause blindness if it’s not treated in time.
May 01, 2019
Birth of a Prodigy
Never mind Spotify, here's MuseNet — a model that spins music endlessly in a variety of styles.
May 01, 2019
Hiding in Plain Sight
Harry Potter’s magical cloak made him invisible to his Hogwarts colleagues. Now researchers have created a sort of invisibility shield to hide people from computer vision.
May 01, 2019
Talking Without Speaking
Neuroscientists translated brain signals directly into artificial speech, synthesizing full sentences based purely on neural impulses.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Un-Redacting Mueller, Attack Of The Robot Dogs, AI Gaming Champs, Training Data Transparency
I spent my birthday last week thinking about how AI can be used to address one of humanity's most pressing problems: climate change.