Tech & Society
Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works
Faster than a speeding skateboard! Able to dodge tall trees while chasing a dirt bike! It’s … an upgrade in the making from an innovative drone maker.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
Deep Learning for Object Tracking: AI for six-dimensional object tracking for robotics
AI is good at tracking objects in two dimensions. A new model processes video from a camera with a depth sensor to predict how objects move through space.
Business
Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.
A top meat packer is counting its chickens with AI. Tyson Foods is using computer vision to track drumsticks, breasts, and thighs as they move through its processing plants, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Chatbots Sue Telemarketers, Neural Nets See Around Corners, Police Read License Plates, Deep Learning Pioneers Speak
Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task. These ideas contributed only marginally to practical performance back then, but I’m pleased
Letters
Unsupervised Learning Ascendent
Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task.
Machine Learning Research
Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.
Business
Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.
Tech & Society
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun presented their latest thinking about deep learning’s limitations and how to overcome them.
Machine Learning Research
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
AI’s ability to transfer a person’s face from a source photo onto someone in a target photo doesn’t work so well when the target face is partially obscured by, say, eyeglasses, a veil, or a hand. A new technique handles such occlusions.
Business
Business Pushes the Envelope: The trends shaping AI in 2020
The business world continues to shape deep learning’s future. Commerce is pushing AI toward more efficient consumption of data, energy, and labor, according to a report on trends in machine learning from market analyst CB Insights.
Tech & Society
Glimpse My Ride: How Los Angeles police used license plate readers
Police in the U.S. routinely use AI to track cars with little accountability to the public. Documents obtained by Wired revealed just how intensively police in Los Angeles, California, have been using automatic license plate readers.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Hotter Dating Profiles, Pandas in Love, Compute for Coronavirus, Deepfake Detection, Self-Driving Cars Run Amok
A student once asked me, “Can an AI ever love?”Since the early days of AI, people have wondered whether AI can ever be conscious or feel emotions. Even though an artificial general intelligence may be centuries away, these are important questions.