Tech & Society
Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts
No more sloppy workouts: AI can correct your form. A home exercise system uses neural nets to analyze your motions and tell you when you perform a move properly, reports The Verge.
Mar 04, 2020
Machine Learning Research
Locating Landmarks on the Fly: AI model identifies stationary objects from radar scans.
Directions such as “turn left at the big tree, go three blocks, and stop at the big red house on your left” can get you to your destination because they refer to stationary landmarks. New research enables self-driving cars to identify such stable indicators on their own.
Tech & Society
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”
Business
Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.
AI may not steal your job, but it can tell the boss when you’re slacking. Drishti, a startup based in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, tracks the productivity of industrial workers by recognizing their actions on the assembly line.
Machine Learning Research
Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.
Transformer networks have revolutionized natural language processing, but they hog processor cycles and memory. New research demonstrates a more frugal variation.
Tech & Society
History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage
While deep learning is taking us into the future, it’s also opening windows into the past. A Redditor brought 100-year-old silent film footage of New York City into the 21st century by automatically sharpening the picture, boosting the frame rate, and adding color.
Letters
How Price Optimization Leads to Better Products and Worse Transparency
In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Standing Up for Ethical AI, Efficient Transformers, Up-Rezzing Old Movies, Watching the Factory Floor, Pumping Iron
In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power.