Business
Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19
Covid-19 wreaked havoc with models that predict retail sales — but China’s biggest annual e-commerce event showed that they’re back in business.
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Tech & Society
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.
Letters
AI Versus Human-Level Performance, Part 2
Last week, I wrote about the limitation of using human-level performance (HLP) as a metric to beat in machine learning applications for manufacturing and other fields. In this letter, I would like to show why beating HLP isn’t always the best way to improve performance.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Bias In Surprising Places, Retail Models Adjust to Covid, Faster Transformers, AI Patents Explode
Last week, I wrote about the limitation of using human-level performance (HLP) as a metric to beat in machine learning applications for manufacturing and other fields. In this letter, I would like to show why beating HLP isn’t always the best way to improve performance.
Business
Building Sites Meld Real and Virtual: Buildots creates digital twins using computer vision.
Everyday cameras and computer vision algorithms are digitizing construction projects to keep builders on schedule. Based in Tel Aviv, Buildots maps output from building-site cameras onto simulations of the work n progress, enabling construction managers to monitor progress remotely.
Tech & Society
That Kid Looks Like a Criminal: Conarc face recognition contained children's personal info.
In Argentina, a municipal face recognition system could misidentify children as suspected lawbreakers. Authorities in Buenos Aires are scanning subway riders’ faces to find offenders in a database of suspects but the system mixes criminal records with personal information about minors.
Business
Got Model?: How NotMilk used AI to create its dairy-free milk recipe
Who needs cows when you can make milk from scratch? NotMilk, a dairy-free milk substitute that was designed with help from a deep learning model, made its debut in American grocery stores.
Machine Learning Research
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.
Tech & Society
AI Versus Voters: The companies using AI to predict elections
Major polling organizations took a drubbing in the press after they failed to predict the outcome in last week’s U.S. elections. At least one AI-powered model fared much better.
Letters
AI Versus Human-Level Performance
Beating human-level performance (HLP) has been a goal of academic research in machine learning from speech recognition to X-ray diagnosis. When your model outperforms humans, you can argue that you’ve reached a significant milestone and publish a paper!
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Predicts the Vote, Face Recognition Looks for Criminals, Model Cow Makes Milk, Transformers Prove Theorems
Beating human-level performance (HLP) has been a goal of academic research in machine learning from speech recognition to X-ray diagnosis. When your model outperforms humans, you can argue that you’ve reached a significant milestone and publish a paper!
Machine Learning Research
Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.
According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, the bigger the neural network, the more likely some of its weights are initialized to values that are well suited to learning to perform the task at hand. But just how big does it need to be?