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This Shirt Hates Surveillance
Automatic license plate readers capture thousands of vehicle IDs each minute, allowing law enforcement and private businesses to track drivers with or without their explicit consent.
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DeepLearning.AI Opens Medellin Office
I am writing to you from Colombia today, and am excited to announce the opening of our office in Medellín. The office will serve as the Latin American headquarters for three of the companies in our AI ecosystem: Landing AI, deeplearning.ai, and AI Fund.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Clothes That Thwart Surveillance, DeepMind in the Hot Seat, BERT’s Revenge, Federal AI Standards
I am writing to you from Colombia today, and am excited to announce the opening of our office in Medellín. The office will serve as the Latin American headquarters for three of the companies in our AI ecosystem: Landing AI, deeplearning.ai, and AI Fund.
Jul 31, 2019
Programmer's Helper
TabNine, a maker of programming tools, released Deep TabNine, an app that installs on your text editor of choice and fills in code as you type. Deep TabNine is based on OpenAI's GPT-2, the text generator that penned a decent dystopian short story based on a single sentence from George Orwell’s 1984.
Jul 31, 2019
Seeing Into the Heart
Machine learning stumbles in diagnosing many medical conditions based on imagery if little labeled data is available. In small data settings, supervised learning is often unable to train an accurate classifier.
Jul 31, 2019
What's Not Written on Your Face
Many AI teams have bet big on models that can determine peoples’ emotional state by analyzing their face. But recent work shows that facial expressions actually provide scant information about a person’s feelings.
Jul 31, 2019
Text to Speech In Three Languages
Human voices retain their distinctive character no matter what language they’re speaking. New research lets computers imitate human voices across a number of languages.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI for Artists, Relief for Programmers, Diagnosing Heart Disease, Emotional Un-Intelligence, Multilingual Text-to-Speech
Shortly after Pi day (3/14), I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. We held them in Seattle in March and London in April. We just hosted our third Pie & AI meetup to celebrate the launch of the final course in the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization.
Jul 24, 2019
Who Robowatches the Robowatchmen?
Do security cameras make your local bank or convenience store safer? These devices monitor countless locations around the clock, but it takes people watching to evaluate their output — an expensive, exhausting, and error-prone solution.
Jul 24, 2019
Closing in On Cancer
For all the research attention paid to cancer, there’s still no foolproof way to catch it early. Now AI is homing in on tumors that doctors previously missed.
Jul 24, 2019
Africa Rising
Africa isn’t known as a tech hub, but the continent’s embrace of AI is putting it in the spotlight. African researchers lately have turned to AI to tackle everything from crop failure to bureaucratic red tape.
Jul 24, 2019
Do GANs Dream of Moving Pictures?
Generative adversarial networks make amazingly true-to-life pictures, but their output largely has been limited to still images — until now. Get ready for generated videos.