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NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing neural networks: a generator and a discriminator.  In one where the goal of the algorithm is to create new images, the…
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Driving into the future from autonomous to AI

December 8, 2020
With new connective technology, autonomous systems, and innovative business models, the transportation industry is on the cusp of a transformation that could expand the market by more than a trillion dollars over the next decade and drastically reduce road injuries, one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Mobileye is the global leader in the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems…
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AI Weekly: In firing Timnit Gebru, Google puts commercial interests ahead of ethics

December 5, 2020
This week, Timnit Gebru, a leading AI researcher, was fired from her position on an AI ethics team at Google in what she claims was retaliation for sending an email to colleagues critical of the company’s managerial practices. Reportedly the flashpoint was a paper Gebru coauthored that questioned the wisdom of building large language models and examined who benefits from (and who’s…
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Microsoft’s Nudge service leverages AI to speed up completion of pull requests

December 4, 2020
Microsoft is using AI to accelerate pull requests — the feature that lets developers tell others about changes they’ve made to code — toward completion by reminding authors to engage with their overdue requests. That’s according to a new whitepaper published this week detailing Nudge, an end-to-end service that leverages models based on effort estimation to predict the completion time for…
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