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.
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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.
AI Careers
Machine Learning Jobs on the Rise: The fastest-growing jobs in 2022.
Jobs for machine learning engineers are growing fast, according to an analysis by LinkedIn. Machine learning engineer ranks fourth among the 25 fastest-growing job titles in the United States, according to the professional social network’s annual Jobs on the Rise report.
Letters
Deep Learners, We Salute You!
Every day, I’m inspired by the efforts of you who take our courses, gain technical skills, find jobs, or build things that I never would have imagined. To each one of you who is learning about and building AI, thank you.
Tech & Society
How to Keep Up in a Changing Field: How to keep up with a fast-changing industry.
Machine learning changes fast. Take natural language processing. Word2vec, introduced in 2013, quickly replaced one-hot encoding with word embeddings. Transformers revolutionized the field in 2017 by parallelizing the previously sequential training process.
Tech & Society
How to Get a Job in AI
If you want to work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science, I have great news: New jobs are opening in these areas at a great rate, and there’s no reason why you can’t get one of them.