Tech & Society
Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.
Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data in ways that promote deeply ingrained social stereotypes.
Classification
Business
Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.
Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.
Machine Learning Research
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.
Machine Learning Research
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.
Machine Learning Research
Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation
Training a model to separate the objects in a picture typically requires labeled images for best results. Recent work upped the ante for training without labels.
Tech & Society
Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage
A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.
Tech & Society
Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court
A U.S. court ruled against an implementation of AI-powered software designed to catch students who cheat on academic examinations.
Machine Learning Research
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.
Machine Learning Research
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.
Tech & Society
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.
Machine Learning Research
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.
Science
Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees
A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.