Business
Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads
Marketers are using fake social media personas — enhanced by AI-generated portraits — to expand their reach without busting their budgets.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War
Face recognition is identifying people who have been killed, displaced, or recorded perpetrating alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearview AI made its face recognition system freely available to the Ukrainian government.
Tech & Society
AI Enters the Radiology Department: ChestLink, an AI X-Ray Tool Approved by European Officials
The European Union approved for clinical use an AI system that recognizes normal chest X-rays. ChestLink is the first autonomous computer vision system to earn the European Economic Area’s CE mark for medical devices...
Letters
The Joy of Conversation (About AI and Other Things)
With the pandemic easing in the United States and Canada, I’ve been traveling more in the last two weeks. I spoke at TED 2022 in Vancouver and ScaleUp:AI in New York and attended a manufacturing conference in California.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Government Smacks Down Errant Algorithms, Animal Animations From Video, AI For Biofuel, Is There Learning After Overfitting?
The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data | Animal Animations From Video | Learning After Overfitting | Machine Learning boosts renewable fuels
Science
Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel
A new machine learning technique is boosting algae as a renewable, carbon-neural source of fuel for airplanes and other vehicles typically powered by fossil fuels.
Machine Learning Research
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.
Tech & Society
Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'
A video game studio is looking to machine learning to cut the effort and expense of populating three-dimensional scenes with animated animals.
Tech & Society
The Hammer Drops: Government Fines Company for Misusing Child Data
The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. agency in charge of consumer protection, ruled that an app developed by WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) violated data-collection laws.
Letters
Presenting a Technical Concept? Use a Jupyter Notebook
Machine learning engineers routinely use Jupyter Notebooks for developing and experimenting with code. They’re a regular feature in DeepLearning.AI’s courses. But there’s another use of Jupyter Notebooks that I think is under-appreciated.
Letters
Knowing When You Need Help
AI Fund, the venture studio and investment firm that I lead, recently held a summit where CEOs and founders of portfolio companies shared ideas on topics from fundraising to building team culture.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Designs Chemical Weapons, AI Gains Cultural Awareness, New Chip Accelerates Transformers, Spotting Dangerous Mutations
AI Fund, the venture studio and investment firm that I lead, recently held a summit where CEOs and founders of portfolio companies shared ideas on topics from fundraising to building team culture.