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
Tech & Society
. . . And I Approve of This Deepfake: How India's BJP used AI to create campaign videos
Deepfake tech reared its digitally altered head in Indian politics, but with a twist: Altered images of a politician were produced by his own campaign.
Machine Learning Research
Surgical Speed-Up: An AI tool for diagnosing brain tumor scans
Every second counts when a patient’s skull is open in the operating room. A new technique based on deep learning can shorten some brain surgeries. During brain cancer operations, surgeons must stop in mid-operation for up to a half hour while a pathologist analyzes the tumor tissue.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Under Fire: Critics claim OpenAI lost its founding ideals.
An icon of idealism in AI stands accused of letting its ambition eclipse its principles. Founded in 2015 to develop artificial general intelligence for the good of humankind, OpenAI swapped its ideals for cash.
Letters
Andrew on Lex Fridman's Podcast
I chatted recently with MIT researcher Lex Fridman on his Artificial Intelligence podcast, where we discussed our experiences teaching deep learning. It was the most fun I’ve had in an interview lately, and you can watch the video here.
The Batch Newsletter
Political Deepfakes, Tree-Dodging Drones, Faster Brain Surgery, Robot Chicken Overlords
I chatted recently with MIT researcher Lex Fridman on his Artificial Intelligence podcast, where we discussed our experiences teaching deep learning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.