Science
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.
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The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Matches Patients to Drugs, Robots Crawl Sewers, New Voices for Atypical Speech, Graph Neural Networks Go Deep
I’ve seen many new technologies go through a predictable process on their journey from idea to large scale adoption. First, a handful of experts apply their ideas intuitively.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Surveillance State In the Making?, Robot Fry Cook, U.S. AI Strategy, A Chatbot For Long Talks
I’m grateful to the AI community for the friendships it has brought me and the benefits it has brought to billions of people.
Tech & Society
When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers
The government of South Korea is supplying personal data to developers of face recognition algorithms.
Business
Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.
Tech & Society
U.S. AI Strategy In Gear: National Security Commision Influences U.S. Military AI Policy
Recommendations from the National Security Commission on AI were enshrined in over 190 laws in 2021.
Letters
Solving AI Problems With Civility
I’m grateful to the AI community for the friendships it has brought me and the benefits it has brought to billions of people. But members of the AI community don’t always honor one another.
Machine Learning Research
Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.
Business
Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm
The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power. Zillow, whose core business is providing real-estate information for prospective buyers, shut down its house-flipping division after...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Has AI Become Unaffordable?, Covid Confounds Price Prediction, Face Recognition Algorithms Are Not Equal, This Chatbot Knows How To Google
The physical world is full of unique details that differ from place to place, person to person, and item to item. In contrast, the world of software is built on abstractions that make for relatively uniform coding environments and user experiences.
Letters
Making Software For a Heterogeneous World
The physical world is full of unique details that differ from place to place, person to person, and item to item. In contrast, the world of software is built on abstractions that make for relatively uniform coding environments and user...
Tech & Society
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.