Letters
Why AI Projects Fail, Part 5: Change Management
My last two letters explored robustness and small data as common reasons why AI projects fail. In the final letter of this three-part series, I’d like to discuss change management.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Artificial Noses, Surveillance on Wheels, Unwelcome Researchers, Privacy Problems, Beyond Bounding Boxes
My last two letters explored robustness and small data as common reasons why AI projects fail. In the final letter of this three-part series, I’d like to discuss change management. Change management isn’t an issue specific to AI, but given the technology’s disruptive nature...
Machine Learning Research
Convolution Revolution
Looking at images, people see outlines before the details within them. A replacement for the traditional convolutional layer decomposes images based on this distinction between coarse and fine features.
Science
Fish Recognition
A deep learning system is helping biologists who survey offshore fish populations to prevent overfishing. The U.S. agency in charge of protecting ocean resources is using an underwater camera and neural network to count fish in real time.
Tech & Society
Survival of the Overfittest
Neuroevolution, which combines neural networks with ideas drawn from Darwin, is gaining momentum. Its advocates claim that they can achieve faster, better results by generating a succession of new models, each slightly different than its predecessors, rather than relying on a purpose-built model.
Machine Learning Research
Finer Tuning
A word-embedding model typically learns vector representations from a large, general-purpose corpus like Google News. But to make the resulting vectors useful in a specialized domain, they must be fine-tuned on a smaller, domain-specific dataset. Researchers offer a more accurate method.
Business
Spotlight on Stock Scammers
The world’s largest stock market is using AI to flag suspicious trading in real time. Nasdaq is testing a deep learning system to monitor trading of ts U.S. equities. Named Chiron, the system watches for behaviors that indicate potential market manipulation.
Tech & Society
Blind Spot
In March 2018, one of Uber’s self-driving cars became the first autonomous vehicle reported to have killed a pedestrian. A new report by U.S. authorities suggests that the accident occurred because the car’s software was programmed to ignore jaywalkers.
Letters
Why AI Projects Fail, Part 4: Small Data
In this series exploring why machine learning projects fail, let’s examine the challenge of “small data.” Given 1 million labeled images, many teams can build a good classifier using open source.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Self-Driving Cars That Can't See Pedestrians?! Evolutionary Algorithms, Fish Recognition, Fighting Fraud
In this series exploring why machine learning projects fail, let’s examine the challenge of “small data.” Given 1 million labeled images, many teams can build a good classifier using open source.
Machine Learning Research
Robotic Control, Easy as Apple Pie
Robots designed to assist people with disabilities have become more capable, but they’ve also become harder to control. New research offers a way to operate such complex mechanical systems more intuitively.
Tech & Society
Who’s Minding the Store?
Amazon, watch your back. There’s a new player in the book business and, unlike Jeff Bezos, it doesn’t need eight hours of sleep a night. The online bookstore Booksby.ai is run entirely by AI. Neural networks write the books, create the cover art, price the merchandise, even write the reviews.