Letters
Scientific Research Wants to be Free: US Officials Block Paywalls on Gov-Funded Studies
I’m thrilled! Paywalled journals that block free access to scientific research are the bane of the academic community.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: GPU Geopolitics, Spotting Tax Cheats, Luring Subscribers, Accelerating Transformers
The Batch - AI News & Insights. Paywalled journals that block free access to scientific research are the bane of the academic community.
Machine Learning Research
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.
Business
Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish: Robot Deck Hand Automatically Processes Fish
Shinkei Systems developed a machine that uses computer vision to slaughter fish in a way that maximizes their shelf life and flavor.
Tech & Society
China's AI ROI: AI May Add $600 Billion to China's Economy by 2030
China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.
Tech & Society
Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation
Google updated the Multitask Unified model its search algorithm to respond to the flood of misinformation on the web.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 7: Optimizing Your Job Search
Every job search is different. Here are some tips from Andrew Ng to increase the odds you’ll find the right position.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Misinformation Recognition, China's AI ROI, Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish, Object Detection Transformers Simplified
I’ve devoted several recent letters to building a career in AI. In this one, I’d like to discuss some fine points of finding a job.The typical job search follows a fairly predictable path.
Machine Learning Research
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.
Business
One Cool Robot: FamilyMart Uses TX SCAR Robots to Restock Beverages
FamilyMart, a chain of Japanese convenience stores, plans to employ robots to fill shelves with beverage bottles at 300 locations.
Machine Learning Research
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.