AI Careers
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
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Tech & Society
Self-Driving Safety Check: U.S. Government Data Details 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Crashes
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.
Tech & Society
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered
Letters
Toward More Consistent Decision-Making
Andrew Ng considers how inconsistent human decisions are, and how AI can reduce that inconsistency.
Machine Learning Research
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.
Business
Where Drones Fly Free: The UK’s Superhighway in the Sky for Drones
Autonomous aircraft in the United Kingdom are getting their own superhighway. The UK government approved Project Skyway, a 165-mile system of interconnected drone-only flight routes.
Science
Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees
A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: UK's Drone Superhighway, Largest Open Source Language Model, AI Protects Bees, Countering Biased Labels
While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
Letters
The Trouble With Reinforcement Learning
While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
Tech & Society
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.
Machine Learning Research
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.