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…
Facebook and Venmo demand Clearview AI stops scraping their data
February 6, 2020
Following Google and Twitter, Facebook has become the latest company to take legal action against controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI. According to the company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview sometime this week, demanding that it stop taking…
The IEEE Standards Association has released a report calling for engineers to consider the impact their work will have on climate change, children, and society. It’s a push toward “utilizing emerging technologies in a way that prioritizes people and planet over power and…
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…
Google’s ML-fairness-gym lets researchers study the long-term effects of AI’s decisions
February 6, 2020
Determining whether an AI system is maintaining fairness in its predictions requires an understanding of models’ short- and long-term effects, which might be informed by disparities in error metrics on a number of static data sets. In some cases, it’s necessary to…
Following Twitter, Google and YouTube have become the latest companies to send a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the startup behind a controversial facial recognition program that more than 600 police departments across North American use. Clearview came under…
Google Assistant can now say where your Tile is
February 5, 2020
Tracking gadget Tile has been a boon to the forgetful, and now it’s set to get even more helpful. Previously, you could use Google Assistant to ring your Tile, so finding your keys or wallet was a matter of listening out for the beep. Now, though, it’s able to give you a location of where your stuff is.
Using a Nest device, you can now ask Google Assistant things like…
Cherre raises $16 million to analyze real estate data with AI
February 5, 2020
Real estate data collection and analytics costs can total in the millions of dollars. That’s why in 2016, L.D. Salmanson founded Cherre, a startup that leverages AI to cost-effectively resolve property data from disparate public and private sources. After raising $9…
IDC predicts that worldwide data will grow 61% to 175 zettabytes by 2025, which will invariably put a strain on infrastructure as organizations look to sort, search, scan, and otherwise derive value from this data. That’s where NGD Systems comes in — it’s an Irvine…
How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K
February 4, 2020
When the 50-second silent short film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat premiered in 1896, some theatergoers reportedly ran for safety at the sight of a projected approaching train, thinking that a real one would burst through the screen at any moment, Looney Tunes-style. A wild thought, given the blurry, low-resolution quality of the original film. Thankfully those panicky…
