Tech & Society
The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?
Will international rivalries fragment international cooperation in machine learning? Countries competing for AI dominance will lash out at competitors.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
AI Spreads Disinformation: Understanding the fear of AI-powered disinformation
Will AI promote lies that deepen social divisions? Propagandists will bait online recommendation algorithms with sensationalized falsehoods. People who snap at the clickbait will be reeled into opposing ideological silos.
Letters
Happy Halloween! An Alternative AI Glossary
Welcome to this special Halloween issue of The Batch! In AI, we use many challenging technical terms. To help you keep things straight, I would like to offer some definitions that I definitely would not use.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Halloween Special! Skeletons in the AI Closet including Bias, Disinformation, Rivalries, Power-Hungry Models, Black Boxes
Welcome to this special Halloween issue of The Batch! In AI, we use many challenging technical terms. To help you keep things straight, I would like to offer some definitions that I definitely would not use.
Science
Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI
Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.
Business
Battling Bias in Synthetic Data: How synthetic data startups are working to avoid bias
Synthetic datasets can inherit flaws in the real-world data they’re based on. Startups are working on solutions. Generating synthetic datasets for training machine learning systems is a booming business.
Tech & Society
RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.
A new multimedia experience lets audience members help artificially intelligent creatures work together to survive. Agence, an interactive virtual reality (VR) project blends audience participation with reinforcement learning to create an experience that’s half film, half video game.
Machine Learning Research
What One Neuron Knows: How convolutional neural network layers recognize objects.
How does a convolutional neural network recognize a photo of a ski resort? New research shows that it bases its classification on specific neurons that recognize snow, mountains, trees, and houses.
Tech & Society
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.
Letters
The Rise of the Industrial AI Development Platform
Today Landing AI, where I am CEO, launched LandingLens, an AI-powered platform that helps manufacturers develop computer vision solutions that can identify defective products.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Researchers Under Fire, RL Agents in Danger, Bias in Synthetic Data, One Neuron to Rule Them All
Today Landing AI, where I am CEO, launched LandingLens, an AI-powered platform that helps manufacturers develop computer vision solutions that can identify defective products.
Tech & Society
Transparency for Smart Cities: Amsterdam and Helsinki launch public AI registries.
Two European capitals launched public logs of AI systems used by the government. Amsterdam and Helsinki provide online registries that describe the algorithms that govern municipal activities, such as automated parking control and a public health chatbot.