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Facebook buys startup using AI vision to find your location

February 8, 2020
Facebook might have just acquired a key ingredient for its augmented reality glasses. TechCrunch has discovered a filing indicating that Facebook has bought Scape Technologies, a London-based startup using computer vision to determine your location beyond the capabilities of GPS alone. Its cloud-based “Visual Positioning Service” translates images into 3D maps that deliver a precise…
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An AI regulation strategy that could really work

February 8, 2020
When even the companies developing AI themselves agree with the need for regulation, it is time to stop discussing abstract principles and get down to the business of how to regulate a rapidly advancing technology landscape. It is clear that our regulatory system…
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AI Weekly: Announcing our AI and security special issue

February 7, 2020
Whether we’re aware of it or not, both AI and cybersecurity are nearly omnipresent in our daily lives at this point, and together they’re of increasing importance as our world becomes more connected, more “intelligent,” and more reliant on online or automated…
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MIT CSAIL’s TextFooler generates adversarial text to strengthen natural language models

February 7, 2020
AI and machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial samples that have alterations from the originals. That’s especially problematic as natural language models become capable of generating humanlike text, because of their attractiveness to malicious actors who would use them to produce misleading media. In pursuit of a technique that illustrates the extent to which adversarial text…
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Amazon researchers distill knowledge from a large AI model to a simplified version

February 6, 2020
In AI and machine learning systems, knowledge is typically distilled by training a small model — a student — to mimic a large and cumbersome model — a teacher. The idea is to compress the teacher’s knowledge by using its outputs as labels to optimize the student, but there’s no guarantee knowledge will be transferred to the student when the teacher is considerably large. That’s why a…
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Worlds gets $10 million to help enterprises observe their physical environments with AI

February 6, 2020
Worlds, whose AI helps large organizations observe their physical spaces to ensure security, safety, and productivity, has raised $10 million in a first round of funding. The Dallas-based startup uses multiple cameras to track spaces in 3D over time, providing a more reliable view of what’s happening than typical 2D security video would. Worlds then trains its AI models to find unusual patterns…
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