Tech & Society
On the Ball: An AI-Powered App Lets Amateur Footballers Try Out for the Pros
AiSCOUT uses computer vision to grade amateur footballers and recommends those who score highest to representatives of professional teams.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Business
Auto Diagnosis: AI-Powered Inspections Arrive at Dealers for GM and Volvo
A drive-through system from UVeye automatically inspects vehicles for dents, leaks, and low tire pressure.
Jul 27, 2022
AI War Chest Grows: NATO Invests €1 Billion in Advanced Technologies
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced a €1 billion venture capital fund for technologies including AI.
Letters
More Data for AI Developers: A New Law Makes it Easier to Scrape the Web
Many AI systems have been built using data scraped from the internet. Indeed, even the cornerstone dataset for computer vision research, ImageNet, was built using images taken from the public internet.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Military AI Spending Grows, Automated Talent Scout, Drive-Thru Car Inspection, Humanized Training for Robots
In this issue of The Batch: AI War Chest Grows | Drive-Thru Car Inspection Uses Computer Vision | AI computer vision grading soccer players...
AI Careers
What AI Employers Want: 10 Most In-Demand Jobs in AI and Machine Learning
A website that aggregates AI jobs revealed the roles that are most in-demand. Ai-jobs.net published its second annual list of the job titles that appeared most frequently in its listings.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 4: How to Sequence Projects to Build a Career
Last week’s letter focused on coming up with AI project ideas, part of a series on how to build a career in the field. This letter describes how a sequence of projects might fit into your career path.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: In-Demand Job Titles, New Rules for Self-Driving Cars, How to Cut AI's Carbon Emissions, Learning from Metadata
Last week’s letter focused on coming up with AI project ideas, part of a series on how to build a career in the field. This letter describes how a sequence of projects might fit into your career path.
Science
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.
Machine Learning Research
Tradeoffs for Higher Accuracy: Data Augmentation Plus Weight Decay can Boost Some AI Models
Vision models can be improved by training them on several altered versions of the same image and also by encouraging their weights to be close to zero. Recent research showed that both can have adverse effects that may be difficult to detect.
Tech & Society
Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini
A homebrew re-creation of OpenAI’s DALL·E model is the latest internet sensation. Craiyon has been generating around 50,000 user-prompted images daily, thanks to its ability to produce visual mashups like Darth Vader ice fishing and photorealistic Pokemon characters.
Business
Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards
Microsoft tightened the reins on both AI developers and customers.What’s new: The tech titan revised its Responsible AI Standard and restricted access to some AI capabilities accordingly.