Jun 16, 2021

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Data-Centric AI Competition slide
Jun 16, 2021

The Batch: Computers Spawn Computers, Self-Riding Bike, AI-Against-Covid Progress Report, Handwriting Deciphered

I’m thrilled to announce the first data-centric AI competition! I invite you to participate.For decades, model-centric AI competitions, in which the dataset is held fixed while you iterate on the code, have driven our field forward.
On the left, the policy is being trained from scratch, and on the right, a pre-trained policy is being fine-tuned
Jun 16, 2021

Computers Making Computers: How Google used AI to help design its TPU v4 chip.

A neural network wrote the blueprint for upcoming computer chips that will accelerate deep learning itself. Google engineers used a reinforcement learning system to arrange the billions of minuscule transistors in an upcoming version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips.
Two images showing the process of turning handwriting into text
Jun 16, 2021

The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.

Systems designed to turn handwriting into text typically work best on pages with a consistent layout, such as a single column unbroken by drawings, diagrams, or extraneous symbols. A new system removes that requirement.
eXtremely Unnatural Auto-Navigation (Xuan), a self-riding bicycle
Jun 16, 2021

A Bicycle Built for Zero: Self-driving bicycle stays upright and avoids collisions.

Self-driving cars, get ready to share the road with self-riding bikes. Beijing-based machine learning researcher Zhihui Peng built a riderless bike that stays upright, navigates, and avoids collisions.
Data-Centric AI Competition slide
Jun 16, 2021

Ready, Set, Improve the Data!

I’m thrilled to announce the first data-centric AI competition! I invite you to participate.For decades, model-centric AI competitions, in which the dataset is held fixed while you iterate on the code, have driven our field forward.
Covid-19 over a graph
Jun 16, 2021

AI Against Covid Progress Report: A review of how AI was used to fight Covid-19.

A new report assessed how AI has helped address Covid-19 and where it has fallen short.

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