Culture
Deepfakes Against Profanity: Film Makers of Fall Used AI to Remove F-Words
The filmmakers used technology from Flawless AI to clean up the language, enabling the film to earn a rating that welcomes younger viewers.
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Tech & Society
AI Hits Its Stride: Cionic’s AI-Powered Neural Sleeve Could Help Fix Impaired Walking
Neural Sleeve is intended to correct leg movements for people impacted by multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and stroke.
Science
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.
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
Machine Learning Research
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.
Tech & Society
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.
Letters
Toward More Consistent Decision-Making
Andrew Ng considers how inconsistent human decisions are, and how AI can reduce that inconsistency.
Tech & Society
Self-Driving Safety Check: U.S. Government Data Details 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Crashes
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.
AI Careers
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
Machine Learning Research
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.
Science
Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees
A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.