Letters
Congratulations to all the Graduates!
Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one...
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The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Face Recognition at the Border, Robot Manicurists, Irresponsible AI, Synthesizing Real-World Scenes
Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one, which was taken when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon (I’m standing in the middle).
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins
In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.
Machine Learning Research
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.
Business
Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.
Tesla is abandoning radar in favor of a self-driving system that relies entirely on cameras. The electric car maker announced it will no longer include radar sensors on Model 3 sedans and Model Y compact SUVs sold in North America.
Tech & Society
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.
Machine Learning Research
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.
Tech & Society
Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.
Autonomous weapons are often viewed as an alarming potential consequence of advances in AI — but they may already have been used in combat. Libyan forces unleashed armed drones capable of choosing their own targets against a breakaway rebel faction last year.
Letters
How to Make Tough Decisions
In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.
Machine Learning Research
What Machines Want to See: An image compressor for more accurate computer vision
Researchers typically downsize images for vision networks to accommodate limited memory and accelerate processing. A new method not only compresses images but yields better classification.
Tech & Society
Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.
Tech & Society
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.