TechTalk: The AI Incident Database wants to improve the safety of machine learning . “Most complex software systems fail at some point and need to be updated regularly. We have procedures and tools that help us find and fix these errors. But current AI systems, mostly dominated by machine learning algorithms, are different from traditional […]
Data Center Knowledge: Machine Learning Is Helping High-Performance Computing Go Mainstream. “Once confined to specialized workloads with high compute requirements, such as academic and medical research, financial modeling, and energy exploration, high-performance computing, or HPC, has in recent years been finding its way into IT of all stripes. This has partly been brought about by […]
US Air Force: AI Copilot: Air Force achieves first military flight with artificial intelligence. “Signaling a major leap forward for national defense in the digital age, the Air Force flew with artificial intelligence as a working aircrew member onboard a military aircraft for the first time Dec. 15. The AI algorithm, known as ARTUµ, flew […]
BuzzFeed News: Facebook Is Developing A Tool To Summarize Articles So You Don’t Have To Read Them. “In recent weeks, departing Facebook employees have pushed back on the idea that AI could cure the company’s content moderation problems. While Facebook employs thousands of third-party human moderators, it’s made it clear that AI is how it […]
The Next Web: Google Photos’ new AI-powered feature turns your 2D snaps into cinematic 3D images. “The feature uses machine learning to predict an image’s depth and create a 3D representation of the scene. It then animates the picture to produce a panning effect.”
MIT Technology Review: “I started crying”: Inside Timnit Gebru’s last days at Google—and what happens next. “On Monday, December 14, I caught up with Gebru via Zoom. She recounted what happened during her time at Google, reflected on what it meant for the field and AI ethics research, and gave parting words of advice to […]
Ubergizmo: This AI Playing A Non-Stop Bass Solo Is All Kinds Of Impressive . “Playing a musical solo can be difficult, especially if you’re required to think and improvise on the spot. This is because our brains need to make the connection as to which note that we should go to next, whether or not […]
The Verge: Roast your own Spotify listens with this snarky AI. “If you want to be judged, you open a page titled ‘How Bad is Your Spotify’ and you log in with your Spotify account. (It might take a couple refreshes on the ‘Loading your music library’ page.) This absolute jerk of an AI then […]
Reuters: Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research – documents. “Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a ‘sensitive topics’ review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications […]
MIT Technology Review: Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI. “Deep learning is an inefficient energy hog. It requires massive amounts of data and abundant computational resources, which explodes its electricity consumption. In the last few years, the overall research trend has made the problem worse. Models of gargantuan proportions—trained on […]
CNBC: China’s Huawei tested A.I. software that could identify Uighur Muslims and alert police, report says. “Huawei, together with one of China’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) firms Megvii, tested a facial recognition system that could be used to detect members of a minority Muslim group and send alerts to authorities, a new report claims.”
Engadget: Google AI is now piloting Loon’s internet-beaming balloons. “Alphabet’s Loon has shifted to a different type of navigation system for its internet-beaming balloons. Rather than relying on algorithms designed by humans, the balloons are using an artificial intelligence system Loon developed with Google AI over the last few years.”
BloombergQuint: Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google waived a 1.1 billion-pound loan ($1.5 billion) to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. in 2019 after the U.K.-based artificial intelligence lab continued to ramp up the scale of its research and development. Revenue jumped 158% in 2019, DeepMind said in a financial filing […]
Bloomberg: Google AI Researchers Lay Out Demands, Escalating Internal Fight. “A group of Google artificial intelligence researchers sent a sweeping list of demands to management calling for new policies and leadership changes, escalating a conflict at one of the company’s prized units.”
The Verge: Let the dulcet tones of Google’s Blob Opera ring in the holiday season with machine learning. “Hark! The blobs sing! Or at least, they do in Google’s latest machine learning experiment, the awe-inspiring Blob Opera, which will see a chorus of four adorable, colorful blobs serenade you with spine-tingling operatic music. Drag a […]