Jul 29, 2020

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Zoom call with the Ng family celebrating Andrew Ng's grandfather’s 102nd birthday
Jul 29, 2020

The Batch: GPT-3 Gone Wild, Covid Tech Roundup, AI for Sushi, Video Classification on Steroids

Over the weekend, my family celebrated my grandfather’s 102nd birthday on Zoom. We dialed in from Hong Kong (my grandfather), the U.S. (myself), the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand.
Information related to OpenAI's model GPT-3
Jul 29, 2020

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.
Series of images and videclips related to the smartphone app Tuna Scope
Jul 29, 2020

Grade-AI Sushi: How Tuna Scope assesses the quality of sushi-grade fish

Computer vision is helping sushi lovers enjoy top-quality maguro. Japanese restaurant chain Kura Sushi is using a smartphone app called Tuna Scope to grade its suppliers’ offerings, according to the news outlet The Asahi Shimbun.
Graphs and data related to Ordered Temporal Alignment Module (Otam)
Jul 29, 2020

Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video

We’d all love to be able to find similar examples of our favorite cat videos. But few of us want to label thousands of similar videos of even the cutest kitties. New research makes headway in video classification when training examples are scarce.
Map of China pointing specific places in red
Jul 29, 2020

AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid

A new report details the role of AI in China’s effort to fight the coronavirus. Researchers at Synced, a China-based AI publication, describe how nearly 90 machine learning products have contributed to the country’s pandemic response.
Data related to a new reinforcement learning approach
Jul 29, 2020

Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.

When the chips are down, humans can track critical details without being distracted by irrelevancies. New research helps reinforcement learning models similarly focus on the most important details.
Zoom call with the Ng family celebrating Andrew Ng's grandfather’s 102nd birthday
Jul 29, 2020

Global Communications and the New Normal

Over the weekend, my family celebrated my grandfather’s 102nd birthday on Zoom. We dialed in from Hong Kong (my grandfather), the U.S. (myself), the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand.

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