Tech & Society
Self-Driving Safety Check: U.S. Government Data Details 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Crashes
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
AI Careers
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
Machine Learning Research
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.
Science
Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees
A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.
Tech & Society
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.
Business
Where Drones Fly Free: The UK’s Superhighway in the Sky for Drones
Autonomous aircraft in the United Kingdom are getting their own superhighway. The UK government approved Project Skyway, a 165-mile system of interconnected drone-only flight routes.
Letters
The Trouble With Reinforcement Learning
While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: UK's Drone Superhighway, Largest Open Source Language Model, AI Protects Bees, Countering Biased Labels
While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
Machine Learning Research
Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems
Images in the wild may not come with labels, but they often include metadata. A new training method takes advantage of this information to improve contrastive learning.
Tech & Society
Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features
The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.
Machine Learning Research
Humanized Training for Robot Arms: New Research Improves Robot Performance and Adaptability
Robots trained via reinforcement learning usually study videos of robots performing the task at hand. A new approach used videos of humans to pre-train robotic arms.