Machine Learning Research
Competitive Coder: AI code writing system can compete alongside humans.
Programming is hard. Programming competitions are harder. Yet transformers proved themselves up to the task.
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AI for Industrial Automation — and Beyond
I’m writing this in Orlando, Florida, where I just spoke at the A3 Business Forum, a group that works to advance industrial automation through AI, robotics, and other tools. This was my first large conference since the pandemic started...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Chip Supplies At Risk, GPT-3 Goes to Finishing School, Fake Faces For Training Face Recognition, Roadblocks to Regulating AI
I’m writing this in Orlando, Florida, where I just spoke at the A3 Business Forum, a group that works to advance industrial automation through AI, robotics, and other tools. This was my first large conference since the pandemic started...
Machine Learning Research
Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.
Most U.S. state agencies use AI without limits or oversight. An investigative report probed reasons why efforts to rein them in have made little headway. Since 2018, nearly every proposed bill aimed at studying or controlling how state agencies use automated decision systems.
Machine Learning Research
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.
Tech & Society
A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.
OpenAI unveiled a more reliable successor to its GPT-3 natural language model. InstructGPT is a version of GPT-3 fine-tuned to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased output. It's available via an application programming interface.
Hardware
Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.
The hardware that runs the latest AI systems faces rising uncertainty as models grow larger and more computationally intensive. The U.S. Commerce Department sounded an alarm over bottlenecks in the availability of semiconductor chips.
Machine Learning Research
Transformers See in 3D: Using transformers to visualize depth in 2D images.
Visual robots typically perceive the three-dimensional world through sequences of two-dimensional images, but they don’t always know what they’re looking at. For instance, Tesla’s self-driving system has been known to mistake a full moon for a traffic light.
Tech & Society
Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.
Some of the world’s largest corporations will use standardized criteria to evaluate AI systems that influence hiring and other personnel decisions.
Machine Learning Research
High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision
Equipment that relies on computer vision while unplugged — mobile phones, drones, satellites, autonomous cars — need power-efficient models. A new architecture set a record for accuracy per computation.
Business
Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.
Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar clothing store is getting ready to deliver automated outfit recommendations. The ecommerce giant announced plans to open a flagship Amazon Style location at a Los Angeles-area mall this year.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Job Growth in Machine Learning, Amazon's AI-Driven Clothing Store, Transformers for Robot Vision, Hiring Algorithms Under Scrutiny
If you want to build a career in AI, it’s no longer necessary to be located in one of a few tech hubs such as Silicon Valley or Beijing. Tech hubs are emerging in many parts of the world, and cities large and small offer opportunities both for local talent and companies worldwide.