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Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
In tasks that involve generating natural language, neural networks often map an input sequence of words to an output sequence of words. Facebook researchers used a similar technique on sequences of mathematical symbols, training a model to map math problems to math solutions.
Tech & Society
Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.
AI is contributing to paintings, music, and now a whimsical fantasy video. The Squire is an amateur romp through a snowy realm of knights in armor and damsels in distress. The script was composed by AI Dungeon 2, an interactive text-adventure game based on the GPT-2 language model.
Business
Forecasting Blockbusters: Movie studios are using AI to predict box office success.
Could a black box become Hollywood’s crystal ball?What’s new: Warner Bros. is using an AI-powered tool that predicts a movie’s box-office success, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Machine Learning Research
Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.
AlphaGo Zero demonstrates superhuman performance playing Go, chess, and shogi. Models like R2D2 do the same playing classic Atari titles. A new approach to deep reinforcement learning is the first to achieve state-of-the-art results playing both board and video games.
Tech & Society
White House: “Go Easy on AI”: The Trump administration aimed to minimize AI regulations.
The Trump administration announced a hands-off policy for regulating artificial intelligence. The White House unveiled an executive order instructing federal agencies to minimize rule-making related to AI businesses.
Tech & Society
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
Artificial intelligence was everywhere at the biggest, buzziest consumer-technology showcase in the U.S. AI ruled the convention floor at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as numerous media outlets proclaimed.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Facebook Takes on Deepfakes, Google AI Battles Cancer, Researchers Fight ImageNet Bias, AI Grows Globally
Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them. Different companies organize their teams differently and...
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Building Your AI Career: A Report by Workera
Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them.
Tech & Society
ImageNet Gets a Makeover: The effort to remove bias from ImageNet
Computer scientists are struggling to purge bias from one of AI’s most important datasets. ImageNet’s 14 million photos are a go-to collection for training computer-vision systems, yet their descriptive labels have been rife with derogatory and stereotyped attitudes toward race, gender, and sex.
Machine Learning Research
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.
Tech & Society
Facebook vs Deepfakes: How Facebook cracked down on deepfakes
Facebook announced a ban on deepfake videos, on the heels of a crackdown on counterfeit profiles that used AI-generated faces. Facebook declared this week that it will remove deepfake videos it deems deliberately misleading.