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?
Language
Machine Learning Research
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.
Tech & Society
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.
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
Machine Learning Research
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.
Machine Learning Research
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.
Machine Learning Research
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.
Tech & Society
Meet the New Smart-Cities Champ: Chinese researchers win prizes for AI traffic safety.
Chinese researchers for the first time swept a competition to develop AI systems that monitor urban traffic. Chinese universities and companies won first and second place place in all five categories of the 2021 AI City Challenge.
Science
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.
Tech & Society
Danke for the Interview: AI-powered interview tools mistook German for English.
An independent test found flaws in AI systems designed to evaluate job applicants. MyInterview and Curious Thing, which automate job interviews, gave a candidate who spoke only in German high marks on English proficiency, according to MIT Technology Review.
Tech & Society
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).
Machine Learning Research
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.