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AI Weekly: Continual learning offers a path toward more humanlike AI

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. State-of-the-art AI systems are remarkably capable, but they suffer from a key limitation: statisticity. Algorithms are trained once on a dataset and rarely again, making them incapable of learning new information without retraining. This is as opposed to the human brain, which learns constantly, using knowledge…
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Tableau adds support to Einstein Discovery for user control over AI models

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Salesforce’s Tableau arm is making a case for employing AI to drive a new era of business science using analytics applications infused with machine learning algorithms the average end user can easily employ. Tableau has added support for Einstein Discovery to the 2021.1 update of its namesake analytics…
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Facebook dataset combats AI bias by having people self-identify age and gender

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Facebook today open-sourced a dataset designed to surface age, gender, and skin tone biases in computer vision and audio machine learning models. The company claims that the corpus — Casual Conversations — is the first of its kind featuring paid people who explicitly provided their age and gender as opposed…
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Study suggests that AI model selection might introduce bias

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. The past several years have made it clear that AI and machine learning are not a panacea when it comes to fair outcomes. Applying algorithmic solutions to social problems can magnify biases against marginalized peoples; undersampling populations always results in worse predictive accuracy. But bias in AI…
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