Amazon scientists are prototyping algorithms that use crowdsourcing to identify product data, the company reports in a blog post. The researchers believe these algorithms could be used to predict human judgments of product quality on Amazon, which might improve people’s shopping experience by matching only high-quality products to search queries.
The work is something of a follow-up to a study…
A preprint paper coauthored by scientists at Facebook AI Research describes Rewarding Impact-Driven Exploration (RIDE), an intrinsic reward method that encourages AI-driven agents to take actions in an environment. The researchers say that it outperforms state-of-the-art…
Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies
March 11, 2020
While speaking on a panel recently, Landing AI founder and Google Brain cofounder Andrew Ng described a moment when he read the OECD’s AI ethics principles to an engineer, and the engineer told him the words give no instruction on how he should change how he does his…
Global cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus surpassed 100,000 today. As President Trump signs into law an $8.3 billion emergency aid package to address the coronavirus, the chief of the World Health Organization said yesterday that this is “a time for pulling out all the stops.”
There are coronavirus cases in countries around the world, but COVID-19 appears to be flat or on the decline in China…
As Nreal moves closer to the consumer launch of its Light AR glasses, it’s continuing to bolster the wearable’s software capabilities with features that will appeal to end users. Today, the company announced that it’s adding Clay AIR’s high-fidelity optical hand…
In a preprint paper published on the web this week, researchers affiliated with Microsoft Research Asia and the University of Science and Technology of China propose what they claim is a state-of-the-art AI technique for video enhancement and upscaling (i.e., boosting the…
Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images
March 6, 2020
The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the first “scalable” training technique for 3D models from 2D data. They say it can consistently learn to generate better…
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could lead to much more capable AI decision-making systems than have been previously released, which could be a boon for…
Hailo, a startup developing hardware designed to speed up AI inferencing at the edge, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series B funding led by previous and new strategic investors. CEO Orr Danon says the tranche will be used to accelerate the rollout of…
AI and machine learning jobs are in strong demand around the U.S., but not every region has benefited equally from the boom. That’s according to ZipRecruiter’s Future of Work Report 2020, which is out today. To complie the report, ZipRecruiter surveyed data science job listings on the platform between 2018 and 2019. The metrics, while limited in scope to 50 million job postings, illustrate the…
