May 29, 2019
Toward A Smarter Globe
A leading international policy organization issued recommendations for artificial intelligence, adding momentum to international efforts to guide the technology in broadly beneficial directions.
May 29, 2019
May 29, 2019
Autonomous Trucks Hit the Gas
An autonomous big rig is barreling down U.S. interstates in a high-profile trial, raising the prospect that driverless trucking will leapfrog self-driving cars.
May 29, 2019
Small Data, Big Results
The power of deep learning is blunted in domains where labeled training data is scarce. But that may be changing, thanks to a new architecture that recognizes images with high accuracy based on few labeled samples.
May 29, 2019
Robots on the High Seas
An autonomous U.S. Navy warship prototype is the first crew-less vessel to make an ocean crossing. Sea Hunter last fall completed a round trip between its San Diego port and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as reported by Fortune.
May 29, 2019
If Mona Lisa Could Talk
The art of video fakery leaped forward with a system that produces lifelike talking-head videos based on a single still portrait.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Deepfakes, Robot Ships, Small Data, Autonomous Trucking, More AI News
In March, I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. Since then, we've held events in Seattle and London, two growing centers of AI talent. It’s inspiring to see AI develop around the world and not just in Silicon Valley and Beijing.