Machine Learning Research
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?
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Tech & Society
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.
Tech & Society
Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.
Machine Learning Research
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.
Letters
How To Unlock AI Value
On Monday, Landing AI (where I’m CEO) announced the close of a $57 million Series A funding round. The investment enables the company to continue building its data-centric MLOps platform for computer vision, with a focus on manufacturing visual inspection.
Business
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: GPT-3 For All, DeepMind's Goldmine, Facebook Unfriends Face Recognition, Empowering Robots To Find What They Need
On Monday, Landing AI (where I’m CEO) announced the close of a $57 million Series A funding round. The investment enables the company to continue building its data-centric MLOps platform for computer vision, with a focus on manufacturing visual inspection.
Business
DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.
Hardware
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week
Tech & Society
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.
Tech & Society
How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works
Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is a closely guarded secret. Newly leaked documents shed light on the company’s formula for prioritizing posts in an individual user’s feed.
Machine Learning Research
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.