Letters
Covid-19 Transforms Industries
Inflection points in society create opportunities. The rise of online video was an inflection point that enabled scalable online education.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Covid Mask Detection, Brain To Text Translation, AI Chooses Tax Brackets, Neural Network Security
Inflection points in society create opportunities. The rise of online video was an inflection point that enabled scalable online education. The rise of the GPS-enabled smartphones similarly enabled Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and many other services.
Business
Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.
Asian companies lead the world in AI deployment, new research argues. Market research by MIT Technology Review Insights found that companies in the Asia-Pacific region are using machine learning faster and with better results than any other part of the world.
Machine Learning Research
RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.
Which comes first, training a reinforcement learning model or extracting high-quality features? New work avoids this chicken-or-egg dilemma by doing both simultaneously.
Science
Seeing Sea Plastic: Computer vision spots ocean trash from satellite imagery.
A machine learning model is scanning the oceans for the glint of garbage. Researchers from the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory trained a model to identify ocean-borne refuse.
Science
Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.
Israeli and American hospitals are using an algorithm to flag individuals at high risk for Covid-19 complications.
Machine Learning Research
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.
Tech & Society
Roll Over, Beyoncé: How OpenAI's Jukebox generates synthetic music
A new generative model croons like Elvis and raps like Eminem. It might even make you think you’re listening to a lost demo by the Beatles. OpenAI released Jukebox, a deep learning system that has generated thousands of songs in styles from country to metal and soul.
Letters
From Proof of Concept to Production
There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of using deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy: That is by taking a photo of the retina and using AI to detect signs of disease.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Pandemic Triage, Asia's AI Advantage, Detecting Deepfakes, Cleaning Oceans, Music Industry in a Box
There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of using deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy: That is by taking a photo of the retina and using AI to detect signs of disease.
Tech & Society
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.
Machine Learning Research
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.