Machine Learning Research
X Marks the Dataset: Radioacive data helps trace a model's training corpus.
Which dataset was used to train a given model? A new method makes it possible to see traces of the training corpus in a model’s output.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Science
The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.
Machine learning promises to streamline handling of tomorrow’s bureaucratic drudgery — and, it turns out, that of 2,500 years ago. Computer vision is helping researchers at the University of Chicago translate a massive collection of ancient records inscribed on clay tablets.
Letters
The Tech Community Fights Covid
The unfolding Covid-19 crisis calls for individuals and organizations to step up and contribute to the common good. I believe that the tech community has an important role to play in slowing the progress of the virus and shortening the time...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Mind-Controlled Robot Hand, Fashions by GAN, Face Recognition Countermeasure, More Realistic Deepfakes, Learning From
The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.
Letters
Conferences in the Time of Covid
The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time.
Tech & Society
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Amputees can control a robotic hand with their thoughts — plus machine learning. University of Michigan researchers developed a system that uses signals from an amputee’s nervous system to control a prosthetic hand.
Machine Learning Research
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.
Mar 11, 2020
Secret Identity: Invisible patterns hide faces from AI.
Hoping to keep surveillance capitalists from capitalizing on your face? Safeguard your selfies with a digital countermeasure. Researchers devised a program that subtly alters portrait photos to confuse face recognition models without distorting the image to the human eye.
Tech & Society
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Fashion models recently sashayed down Paris Fashion Week catwalks in outfits designed by deep neural nets. Swedish design firm Acne Studios based its 2020 fall/winter men’s line on output from a generative adversarial network.
Machine Learning Research
Guest Speaker: Deepfake method syncs up mouth movements with words.
Deepfake videos in which one person appears to speak another’s words have appeared in entertainment, advertising, and politics. New research ups the ante for an application that enables new forms of both creative expression and
Business
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Standing Up for Ethical AI, Efficient Transformers, Up-Rezzing Old Movies, Watching the Factory Floor, Pumping Iron
In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power.