Tech & Society
Where There’s Smoke, There’s AI: Computer vision system can see wildfire smoke.
An automated early warning system is alerting firefighters to emerging blazes.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Science
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.
Letters
Ready, Set, Improve the Data!
I’m thrilled to announce the first data-centric AI competition! I invite you to participate.For decades, model-centric AI competitions, in which the dataset is held fixed while you iterate on the code, have driven our field forward.
Tech & Society
A Bicycle Built for Zero: Self-driving bicycle stays upright and avoids collisions.
Self-driving cars, get ready to share the road with self-riding bikes. Beijing-based machine learning researcher Zhihui Peng built a riderless bike that stays upright, navigates, and avoids collisions.
Machine Learning Research
The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.
Systems designed to turn handwriting into text typically work best on pages with a consistent layout, such as a single column unbroken by drawings, diagrams, or extraneous symbols. A new system removes that requirement.
Hardware
Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.
A neural network wrote the blueprint for upcoming computer chips that will accelerate deep learning itself. Google engineers used a reinforcement learning system to arrange the billions of minuscule transistors in an upcoming version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Computers Spawn Computers, Self-Riding Bike, AI-Against-Covid Progress Report, Handwriting Deciphered
I’m thrilled to announce the first data-centric AI competition! I invite you to participate.For decades, model-centric AI competitions, in which the dataset is held fixed while you iterate on the code, have driven our field forward.
Tech & Society
AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.
A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.
Tech & Society
Borderline AI: How U.S. Border Patrol uses AI to process asylum requests.
U.S. immigration officials expect over 2 million migrants to reach the country’s southern border by the end of the year. They’re counting on face recognition to streamline processing of those who seek asylum.
Tech & Society
Irresponsible AI: Execs want AI's power, but not its ethical responsibilities.
Few companies that use AI understand the ethical issues it raises. While many companies are ramping up investments in AI, few look for and correct social biases in their models, according to a report by the credit-scoring company Fico.
Business
Every Problem Looks Like a Nail: AI-powered devices that automatically paint fingernails
Robots are brushing their way into the beauty market. A trio of companies is developing automated nail-painting devices that integrate robotics and computer vision.
Machine Learning Research
3D Scene Synthesis for the Real World: Generating 3D scenes with radiance fields and image data
Researchers have used neural networks to generate novel views of a 3D scene based on existing pictures plus the positions and angles of the cameras that took them. In practice, though, you may not know the precise camera