Letters
Congratulations to all the Graduates!
Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one...
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Machine Learning Research
3D Scene Synthesis for the Real World: Generating 3D scenes with radiance fields and image data
Researchers have used neural networks to generate novel views of a 3D scene based on existing pictures plus the positions and angles of the cameras that took them. In practice, though, you may not know the precise camera
Tech & Society
Irresponsible AI: Execs want AI's power, but not its ethical responsibilities.
Few companies that use AI understand the ethical issues it raises. While many companies are ramping up investments in AI, few look for and correct social biases in their models, according to a report by the credit-scoring company Fico.
Business
Every Problem Looks Like a Nail: AI-powered devices that automatically paint fingernails
Robots are brushing their way into the beauty market. A trio of companies is developing automated nail-painting devices that integrate robotics and computer vision.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Autonomous Weapons Used in Combat, Tesla Doubles Down on Computer Vision, Transformers Decipher Proteins
In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.
Letters
How to Make Tough Decisions
In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions.
Tech & Society
Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.
Autonomous weapons are often viewed as an alarming potential consequence of advances in AI — but they may already have been used in combat. Libyan forces unleashed armed drones capable of choosing their own targets against a breakaway rebel faction last year.
Machine Learning Research
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.
Tech & Society
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.
Business
Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.
Tesla is abandoning radar in favor of a self-driving system that relies entirely on cameras. The electric car maker announced it will no longer include radar sensors on Model 3 sedans and Model Y compact SUVs sold in North America.
Machine Learning Research
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Face Recognition for the Masses, Labeling Libel, Documenting Datasets, What Machines Want to See
Benchmarks have been a significant driver of research progress in machine learning. But they've driven progress in model architecture, not approaches to building datasets, which can have a large impact on performance in practical applications.