Tech & Society
The U.S. federal government released a plan to develop technical standards for artificial intelligence, seeking to balance its aim to maintain the nation’s tech leadership and economic power with a priority on AI safety and trustworthiness.
Machine Learning Research
Image-to-image translation, in which stylistic features from one image are imposed on the content of another to create a new picture, traditionally has been limited to translating either shapes or textures. A new network translates both.
Business
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind lost $572 million in the past year, and its losses over the last three years amounted to more than $1 billion. AI contrarian Gary Marcus used the news as an opportunity to question the direction of AI as an industry.
Jul 31, 2019
TabNine, a maker of programming tools, released Deep TabNine, an app that installs on your text editor of choice and fills in code as you type. Deep TabNine is based on OpenAI's GPT-2, the text generator that penned a decent dystopian short story based on a single sentence from George Orwell’s 1984.
Jul 31, 2019
Machine learning stumbles in diagnosing many medical conditions based on imagery if little labeled data is available. In small data settings, supervised learning is often unable to train an accurate classifier.
Jul 31, 2019
Many AI teams have bet big on models that can determine peoples’ emotional state by analyzing their face. But recent work shows that facial expressions actually provide scant information about a person’s feelings.
Jul 31, 2019
Human voices retain their distinctive character no matter what language they’re speaking. New research lets computers imitate human voices across a number of languages.
The Batch Newsletter
Shortly after Pi day (3/14), I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. We held them in Seattle in March and London in April. We just hosted our third Pie & AI meetup to celebrate the launch of the final course in the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization.
Jul 24, 2019
Do security cameras make your local bank or convenience store safer? These devices monitor countless locations around the clock, but it takes people watching to evaluate their output — an expensive, exhausting, and error-prone solution.
Jul 24, 2019
For all the research attention paid to cancer, there’s still no foolproof way to catch it early. Now AI is homing in on tumors that doctors previously missed.
Jul 24, 2019
Africa isn’t known as a tech hub, but the continent’s embrace of AI is putting it in the spotlight. African researchers lately have turned to AI to tackle everything from crop failure to bureaucratic red tape.
Jul 24, 2019
Generative adversarial networks make amazingly true-to-life pictures, but their output largely has been limited to still images — until now. Get ready for generated videos.