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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
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ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps
Deploying models for practical use is an industrial concern that generally goes unaddressed in research. As a result, publications on the subject tend to come from the major AI companies.
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MLOps for All: Google Cloud's Craig Wiley on how he builds AI products.
Craig Wiley has journeyed from the hand-deployed models of yore to the pinnacle of automated AI. Today, as chief product manager of Google Cloud’s AI services, he’s making advanced tools and processes available to anyone with a credit card.
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24/7 Phish Fry: How Nestle built an AI-Powered phishing detector with Azure.
Foiling attackers who try to lure email users into clicking on a malicious link is a cat-and-mouse game, as phishing tactics evolve to evade detection. But machine learning models designed to recognize phishing attempts can evolve, too, through automatic retraining and checks to maintain accuracy.
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Super-Human Quality Control: AI finds manufacturing flaws better than human inspectors.
A computer vision model, continually trained and automatically updated, can boost quality control in factories. Landing AI, a machine learning platform company led by Andrew Ng, helped a maker of compressors for refrigeration check them for leaks.
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Bespoke Models on a Grand Scale: How FreshWorks uses AI to build products for sales teams.
When every email, text, or call a company receives could mean a sale, reps need to figure out who to reply to first. Machine learning can help, but using it at scale requires a highly automated operation.
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Banking on Computer Vision: How banks are using AI to boost security and productivity.
AI-powered surveillance is becoming a staple in U.S. banks. Several banks are using cameras equipped with computer vision to bolster security and boost employee productivity, according to Reuters.
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Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.
A new study suggests tactics for machine learning engineers to cut their carbon emissions. Led by David Patterson, researchers at Google and UC Berkeley found that AI developers can shrink a model’s carbon footprint a thousand-fold by streamlining architecture...
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The Coming Crackdown: The 2021 draft version of the European Union's AI Act
The European Union proposed sweeping restrictions on AI technologies and applications. The executive arm of the 27-nation EU published draft rules that aim to regulate, and in some cases ban, a range of AI systems.
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Boosting Biomedicine: The NIH's Bridge2AI program will fund new health datasets.
The U.S. government aims to turbocharge biomedical AI research. The National Institutes of Health, which invests $41.7 billion annually in medical research, announced a program called Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) to promote machine learning in human biology and medicine.
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Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.