Jul 03, 2019

7 Posts

Semantic Thinning Edge Alignment Learning example
Jul 03, 2019

The Batch: Predicting Violence, DeepNude, Preparing For Robots, Regulating Medical AI

As we were working on the latest course of the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization, instructor Laurence Moroney messaged me his LSTM-generated poetry, created by learning from a database of roughly 100 Irish song lyrics.
Statistics related to the social impact of robots issued in the How Robots Change the World report
Jul 03, 2019

Where the Robots Will Land

Automatons will take 20 million manufacturing jobs globally by 2030 even as they drive substantial economic growth, according to a new study. Humans can get ahead of the curve by distributing the benefits where they’ll be needed most.
X-ray of a person with a pacemaker
Jul 03, 2019

Rules For Medical AI

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates medical devices from stents to diagnostic systems. Once approved, those things don’t change much. Now the agency is formulating standards for medical devices that take advantage of AI that's constantly learning.
Example video-clip retrieval results on HowTo100M using our trained joint embedding
Jul 03, 2019

What You See is What You Say

Teaching a computer meaningful associations between words and videos typically requires training on tens of thousands of videos painstakingly annotated by hand. That’s both labor-intensive and prone to inconsistency due to the often abstract relationship between video imagery and soundtrack.
How the Louroe Digifact A works to detect aggression
Jul 03, 2019

Hearing Problems

Schools, prisons, and other public places have been relying on AI-enhanced microphones to detect signs of trouble. They may have been better off putting their money elsewhere.
The Original X-ray Spex - Amazing X-ray Vision glasses poster
Jul 03, 2019

Seeing Through Poor Uses of AI

Worries over deepfake technology have concentrated on the potential impact of computer-generated media on politics. But image-generation technology also can have a malign impact on private citizens. Consider DeepNude, an app that generates naked images from photos of clothed women.
Semantic Thinning Edge Alignment Learning example
Jul 03, 2019

Tight Fit

If you’re pointing out an object, you don’t describe the background. Yet most object detection algorithms focus on a rectangle surrounding the object, not its precise boundary. New research offers a way to turn those boxes into tightly fitted curves.

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