Business
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.
Microsoft
Business
Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.
Machine Learning Research
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.
Machine Learning Research
High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision
Equipment that relies on computer vision while unplugged — mobile phones, drones, satellites, autonomous cars — need power-efficient models. A new architecture set a record for accuracy per computation.
Interviews & Essays
Yale Song: Foundation models for vision
Large models pretrained on immense quantities of text have been proven to provide strong foundations for solving specialized language tasks. My biggest hope for AI in 2022 is...
Interviews & Essays
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.
Machine Learning Research
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.
Business
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.
Tech & Society
Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.
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.
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.
Tech & Society
24/7 Phish Fry: How Nestle built an AI-Powered phishing detector with Azure.
Foiling attackers who try to lure email users into clicking on a malicious link is a cat-and-mouse game, as phishing tactics evolve to evade detection. But machine learning models designed to recognize phishing attempts can evolve, too, through automatic retraining and checks to maintain accuracy.