Letters
There’s No Substitute for Communication Skills
Engineers need strong technical skills to be successful. But many underestimate the importance of developing strong communication skills as well.
Mar 10, 2021
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Bringing Great Great Grandma Back To Life, Drones Play Defense, AI For Business Booms, Synthesizing New Video Angles
Engineers need strong technical skills to be successful. But many underestimate the importance of developing strong communication skills as well. Many AI products are so...
Tech & Society
Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.
Drone startups are taking aim at military customers. As large tech companies have backed away from defense work, startups like Anduril, Shield AI, and Teal are picking up the slack. They’re developing autonomous fliers specifically for military operations.
Machine Learning Research
Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.
The University of Hong Kong, and Cornell University to create Neural Body, a procedure that generates novel views of a single human character based on shots from only a few angles.
Business
AI for Business Is Booming: Stanford's 2021 AI Index shows commercial AI on the rise.
Commercial AI research and deployments are on the rise, a new study highlights. The latest edition of the AI Index, an annual report from Stanford University, documents key trends in the field including the growing importance of private industry and the erosion of U.S. dominance in research.
Tech & Society
Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.
Machine Learning Research
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
It’s commonly assumed that models pretrained to achieve high performance on ImageNet will perform better on other visual tasks after fine-tuning. But is it always true? A new study reached surprising conclusions.