May 29, 2019
Toward A Smarter Globe
A leading international policy organization issued recommendations for artificial intelligence, adding momentum to international efforts to guide the technology in broadly beneficial directions.
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May 29, 2019
Autonomous Trucks Hit the Gas
An autonomous big rig is barreling down U.S. interstates in a high-profile trial, raising the prospect that driverless trucking will leapfrog self-driving cars.
May 29, 2019
Small Data, Big Results
The power of deep learning is blunted in domains where labeled training data is scarce. But that may be changing, thanks to a new architecture that recognizes images with high accuracy based on few labeled samples.
May 29, 2019
Robots on the High Seas
An autonomous U.S. Navy warship prototype is the first crew-less vessel to make an ocean crossing. Sea Hunter last fall completed a round trip between its San Diego port and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as reported by Fortune.
May 29, 2019
If Mona Lisa Could Talk
The art of video fakery leaped forward with a system that produces lifelike talking-head videos based on a single still portrait.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Deepfakes, Robot Ships, Small Data, Autonomous Trucking, More AI News
In March, I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. Since then, we've held events in Seattle and London, two growing centers of AI talent. It’s inspiring to see AI develop around the world and not just in Silicon Valley and Beijing.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Face Recognition Sparks Revolt, Deepfakes Find Their Voice, Retail Embraces AI
So many people who are just starting out in machine learning are doing amazing work. With online education, open source software, and open publications, it takes less time than ever to go from 0 to 100 in ML.
May 22, 2019
Retailers Spend on Smarter Stores
Retailers are expected to more than triple their outlay for AI over the next few years. A new report from Juniper Research estimates that global retailers will spend $12 billion on AI services by 2023, up from $3.6 billion in 2019.
May 22, 2019
Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
Systems that translate between spoken languages typically take the intermediate step of translating speech into text. A new approach shows that neural networks can translate speech directly without first representing the words as text.
May 22, 2019
Aping Joe Rogan
The tide of AI-driven fakery rose higher around the Internet’s ankles as the synthesized voice of comedian/podcaster Joe Rogan announced his purported formation of a hockey team made up of chimpanzees.
May 22, 2019
Face Recognition in the Crosshairs
Unfounded worries over malevolent machines awakening into sentience seem to be receding. But fears of face recognition erupted last week — the rumblings of a gathering anti-surveillance movement.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Explainable AI, Smaller Models, Labeled Data On Tap, Algorithms On Trial
I’ve been thinking a lot about "small data." If you have an image classification problem and 1,000,000 images, then dozens of teams around the world can build a good classifier.