Tech & Society
Clues to the Secret Identity of Q: AI researchers claim to unmask Q.
Machine learning algorithms may have unmasked the authors behind a sprawling conspiracy theory that has had a wide-ranging impact on U.S. politics.
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Business
Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.
Your next coworker may be an algorithmic teammate with a virtual face. WorkFusion unveiled a line of AI tools that automate daily business tasks. One thing that sets them apart is the marketing pitch: Each has a fictitious persona including a name, face, and professional résumé.
Tech & Society
The Global Landscape of AI Power: Study suggests China will dominate AI.
China is poised to become the dominant national power in AI, new research suggests. The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public-policy think tank, assessed which of 50 countries are best positioned to become AI powerhouses.
Machine Learning Research
Weather Forecast by GAN: GAN improves short-term rainfall predictions.
A new deep learning technique increased the precision of short-term rainfall forecasts. Researchers developed the Deep Generative Model of Radar (DGMR) to predict amounts of precipitation up to two hours in advance.
Science
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.
Tech & Society
Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.
Robocalls slip through smartphone spam filters, but a new generation of deep learning tools promises to tighten the net. Research proposed fresh approaches to thwarting robocalls. Such innovations soon could be deployed in apps.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI For Unlimited Clean Energy, Stopping Robocalls, Reading Analog Meters, Choosing a Fine-Tuning Algorithm
Russian troops have invaded Ukraine, and the terrifying prospect of a war in Europe weighs on my mind. My heart goes out to all the civilians affected, and I hope we won’t see the loss of life, liberty, or property that many people fear.
Business
Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.
Industrial gauges are often located on rooftops, underground, or in tight spaces — but they’re not out of reach of computer vision. The Okinawa startup LiLz Gauge provides a system that reads analog gauges and reports their output to a remote dashboard.
Letters
Does AI Have a Role in Warfare?
Russian troops have invaded Ukraine, and the terrifying prospect of a war in Europe weighs on my mind. My heart goes out to all the civilians affected, and I hope we won’t see the loss of life, liberty, or property that many...
Machine Learning Research
Fine-Tune Your Fine-Tuning: New method optimizes training for few shot NLP models.
Let’s say you have a pretrained language model and a small amount of data to fine-tune it to answer yes-or-no questions. Should you fine-tune it to classify yes/no or to fill in missing words — both viable approaches that are likely to yield different results?
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Race Driver Beats Humans, Apple Bets On Generated Music, Robots Don't Want Your Job, SOA Versus FBP For ML
We just launched a Data-Centric AI Resource Hub to help you improve the performance of AI systems by systematically engineering the underlying data. It offers new articles by Nvidia director of machine learning research...
Letters
New Data-Centric AI Resources!
We just launched a Data-Centric AI Resource Hub to help you improve the performance of AI systems by systematically engineering the underlying data. It offers new articles by Nvidia director of machine learning...