In the News
Top 10 TED talks on AI that are a must watch
Ted Talks on AI sheds light on the excellent capabilities of the technology. Here is a list of the top 10 Ted Talks that revolve around AI technology and tries to elevate the knowledge of people around this disruptive tech.
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In The News
Google Unit DeepMind Tried—and Failed—to Win AI Autonomy From Parent
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has called the technology key to the company’s future, and parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 2.05% has invested billions of dollars in AI. Founded in 2010 and bought by Google in 2014, DeepMind specializes in building advanced AI systems to mimic the way human brains...
The business value of neural networks
For instance, in image recognition, they might learn to identify images that contain cats by analyzing example images that have been manually labeled as “cat” or “no cat” and using the results to identify cats in other images. Applications Neural networks are used in a number of different business...
Understanding Transformers, the machine learning model behind GPT-3
In fact, lots of the amazing research I write about on daleonai.com is built on Transformers, like AlphaFold 2, the model that predicts the structures of proteins from their genetic sequences, as well as powerful natural language processing (NLP) models like GPT-3, BERT, T5, Switch, Meena, and...
Applied use cases
High-performance speech recognition with no supervision at all
This is why we developed wav2vec Unsupervised (wav2vec-U), a way to build speech recognition systems that require no transcribed data at all. Wav2vec-U is the result of years of Facebook AI’s work in speech recognition, self-supervised learning, and unsupervised machine translation.
Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them
Their pottery, now called Tusayan White Ware, varied over time and between places, and archaeologists have sorted it further into a handful of smaller categories. The pieces that archaeologists agreed came from a specific subtype (roughly 2,400 of them) became the dataset used to train a computer...
Novel AI Approaches For Marketing & Advertising
If you’d like to skip around, here are the papers we featured: Causally Driven Incremental Multi-Touch Attribution Using a Recurrent Neural Network Shapley Meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising AiAds: Automated and Intelligent Advertising System for Sponsored...
Ethics
AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers Georgetown researchers used text generator GPT-3 to write misleading tweets about climate change and foreign affairs. When OpenAI demonstrated a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm capable of generating coherent text last June, its...
Report finds startling disinterest in ethical, responsible use of AI among business leaders
Despite these examples, FICO's State of Responsible AI report shows business leaders are putting little effort into ensuring that the AI systems they use are both fair and safe for widespread use. The executives, serving in roles ranging from Chief Data Officer to Chief AI Officer, represent...
How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity
Loss of control and understanding Imagine systems, whether biological or artificial, with levels of intelligence equal to or far greater than human intelligence. “This is what’s known as the control problem,” Susan Schneider, director at the Center for Future Mind and the author of Artificial You:...
Robotics
The MIT humanoid robot: A dynamic robotic that can perform acrobatic behaviors
"In this work, we tried to come up with realistic control algorithm to make a real humanoid robot perform acrobatic behavior such as back/front/side-flip, spinning jump, and jump over an obstacle," Donghyun Kim, one of the researchers who developed the robot's software and controller, told...
Creating expressive robot swarms
To that extent, we have created a system where humans can build a canvas with robots and create shapes with up to 300 real robots and up to 1000 simulated robots. Painting with robots In a system we created called Robotic Canvas, we project an image onto a robot swarm via an overhead projector, and...
Racing DIY Robocars at Circuit Launch plus great jobs in robotics!
We’re focused on driving innovation and delivering convenient, turnkey transportation […] At Frontier Bio, we’re developing 3D bioprinting technology. The position will be full-time, in-person, and hands-on and will involve: – design of mechanical parts in CAD for 3D printing, […] At Frontier Bio,...
Research
Meta learning: How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World
I learned to program and do deep learning using online resources. Most of my income over the last two years has come from deep learning roles. You may have noticed that some individuals seem to learn very fast, hacking on project after project.
Key Research Advances in Building Task-Oriented Dialog Agents
If you’d like to skip around, here are the papers we featured: Rethinking Action Spaces for Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Dialog Agents with Latent Variable Models Guided Dialog Policy Learning: Reward Estimation for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialog Task-Oriented Conversation Generation...
Resilience through innovation
When it comes to society’s toughest challenges, resilience is found at the intersection of science, technology, and human ingenuity. AI for Health is a $60 million, five-year philanthropic program from Microsoft, created to empower nonprofits, researchers, and organizations tackling some of the...