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Animated chart shows how AI can avoid mistaking an image's subject for its context.
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Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes

When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.
Animated charts show how scientists misuse machine learning.
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Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.
Flowcharts show how a new contrastive learning approach uses metadata to improve AI image classifiers
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Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems

Images in the wild may not come with labels, but they often include metadata. A new training method takes advantage of this information to improve contrastive learning.
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Keep Your AIs on the Road: New Law Requires European Vehicles to Come with Automated Features

The European Union passed a law that requires new vehicles to come equipped with automated safety features.
Humanized Training for Robot Arms
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Humanized Training for Robot Arms: New Research Improves Robot Performance and Adaptability

Robots trained via reinforcement learning usually study videos of robots performing the task at hand. A new approach used videos of humans to pre-train robotic arms.
A football player performs drills on the pitch while a computer vision system tracks and grades his movements
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On the Ball: An AI-Powered App Lets Amateur Footballers Try Out for the Pros

AiSCOUT uses computer vision to grade amateur footballers and recommends those who score highest to representatives of professional teams.
A Cadillac SUV drives through one of UVeye's Atlas arches
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Auto Diagnosis: AI-Powered Inspections Arrive at Dealers for GM and Volvo

A drive-through system from UVeye automatically inspects vehicles for dents, leaks, and low tire pressure.
A conversation between a human and an open-domain chatbot.
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Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations

Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.
An animation of a protein modeled by AlphaFold 2.
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DeepMind Doubles Down on AlphaFold: DeepMind Launches Company to Commercialize AlphaFold 2

Isomorphic aims to build its business on AlphaFold 2, an ensemble of neural networks that finds the shapes of protein molecules.

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