Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 7: Optimizing Your Job Search
Every job search is different. Here are some tips from Andrew Ng to increase the odds you’ll find the right position.
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Tech & Society
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.
Machine Learning Research
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.
Business
Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish
Shinkei Systems developed a machine that uses computer vision to slaughter fish in a way that maximizes their shelf life and flavor.
Machine Learning Research
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.
Machine Learning Research
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.
Business
One Cool Robot: FamilyMart Uses TX SCAR Robots to Restock Beverages
FamilyMart, a chain of Japanese convenience stores, plans to employ robots to fill shelves with beverage bottles at 300 locations.
Tech & Society
AI Regulations Proceed Locally: U.S. States Enact Laws Targeting AI
EPIC published a summary of AI-related laws that states and cities considered between January 2021 and August 2022.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Regulations Proceed Locally, Taming Spurious Correlations, One Cool Robot, What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals
Last week, I wrote about switching roles, industries, or both as a framework for considering a job search. If you’re preparing to switch roles (say, taking a job as a machine learning engineer for the first time) or industries...
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 6: Job Search Fundamentals
Last week, I wrote about switching roles, industries, or both as a framework for considering a job search. If you’re preparing to switch roles or industries, there’s a lot about your target job that you probably don’t know.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Science Plagued by Machine Learning Mistakes, Deepfakes Censor Profanity, Wearable AI Helps Impaired Walking, Ensemble Models Simplified
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Science Plagued by Machine Learning Mistakes, Deepfakes Censor Profanity, Wearable AI Helps Impaired Walking, Ensemble Models Simplified
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 5: Finding Your First AI Job
Andrew Ng presents a framework for job seekers in AI, especially those entering from a different field.