Tech & Society
U.S. AI Strategy In Gear: National Security Commision Influences U.S. Military AI Policy
Recommendations from the National Security Commission on AI were enshrined in over 190 laws in 2021.
Business
DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2
Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.
Hardware
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week
Tech & Society
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?
Machine Learning Research
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces
Tech & Society
Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI
Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.
Machine Learning Research
Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.
Tech & Society
AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues
Machine learning researchers tend to trust international organizations, distrust military forces, and disagree on how much disclosure is necessary when describing new models, a new study found.
Machine Learning Research
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google
Tech & Society
Deep Unlearning: AI Researchers Teach Models to Unlearn Data
Privacy advocates want deep learning systems to forget what they’ve learned. What’s new: Researchers are seeking ways to remove the influence of particular training examples, such as an individual’s personal information, from a trained model without affecting its performance, Wired reported.
Tech & Society
User Privacy Versus Child Safety: Apple to scan user phones for images of child abuse.
Apple, which has made a point of its commitment to user privacy, announced that it will scan iPhones for evidence of child abuse. The tech giant will include a machine learning model on the device.
Machine Learning Research
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.