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Where There’s Smoke, There’s AI: Computer vision system can see wildfire smoke.
An automated early warning system is alerting firefighters to emerging blazes.
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A Bicycle Built for Zero: Self-driving bicycle stays upright and avoids collisions.
Self-driving cars, get ready to share the road with self-riding bikes. Beijing-based machine learning researcher Zhihui Peng built a riderless bike that stays upright, navigates, and avoids collisions.
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AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.
A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.
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Borderline AI: How U.S. Border Patrol uses AI to process asylum requests.
U.S. immigration officials expect over 2 million migrants to reach the country’s southern border by the end of the year. They’re counting on face recognition to streamline processing of those who seek asylum.
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Irresponsible AI: Execs want AI's power, but not its ethical responsibilities.
Few companies that use AI understand the ethical issues it raises. While many companies are ramping up investments in AI, few look for and correct social biases in their models, according to a report by the credit-scoring company Fico.
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Deadly Drones Act Alone: Libya's military may have used AI-powered drones in 2020.
Autonomous weapons are often viewed as an alarming potential consequence of advances in AI — but they may already have been used in combat. Libyan forces unleashed armed drones capable of choosing their own targets against a breakaway rebel faction last year.
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Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.
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Face Recognition for the Masses: PimEyes is reverse image search for face recognition.
Face recognition tech tends to be marketed to government agencies, but PimEyes offers a web app that lets anyone scan the internet for photos of themself — or anyone they have a picture of. The company says it aims to help people control their online presence and fight identity theft.
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Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.
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Bias By the Book: Researchers find bias in influential NLP dataset BookCorpus.
Researchers found serious flaws in an influential language dataset, highlighting the need for better documentation of data used in machine learning.
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Crosswords Go the Way of Go: An AI system beat 1,300 humans at a crossword puzzle contest.
A hybrid of deep learning and symbolic AI took the prize at a major puzzle competition. A system called Dr. Fill outscored nearly 1,300 human contestants at April’s annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
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ML in Production: Here are 6 essential papers for MLOps
Deploying models for practical use is an industrial concern that generally goes unaddressed in research. As a result, publications on the subject tend to come from the major AI companies.