Neural networks learn differently from people. If a human comes back to a sport after years away, they might be rusty but they will still remember much of what they learned decades ago. A typical neural network, on the other hand, will forget the last thing it was trained to do. Virtually all neural networks today suffer from this “catastrophic forgetting.”
It’s the Achilles’ heel of…
Vimeo launches AI-powered social video editing platform out of beta
February 25, 2020
Vimeo has officially launched its new short-form social video editing platform, a month after first introducing the tool in beta.
Vimeo Create, as the new service is called, represents the first fruits of Vimeo’s reported $200 million Magisto acquisition last year.
Staff at a California school district reportedly spent 20% of their time searching for lost documents until they retained the services of a records management company. It’s not a unique problem — the average manager spends four weeks out of the year looking for records…
FogHorn raises $25 million to support edge AI app development
February 25, 2020
The edge AI market — that is, the market for devices that run AI applications locally, without cloud processing — is anticipated to grow substantially in the coming months. According to Deloitte, more than 750 million edge AI chips will be sold by year-end (up from a predicted 300 million in 2017), representing $2.6 billion in revenue. And by 2024, the number of chips sold could reach 1.5…
L1ght, a fledgling AI startup that wants to help technology companies combat online toxicity, bullying, and abuse, has raised $15 million in a seed round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Western Technology Investment.
The company’s…
U.K.’s top cop calls for government to legislate police use of AI
February 25, 2020
(Reuters) — Britain’s most senior police officer on Monday called on the government to create a legal framework for police use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Speaking about live facial recognition, which police in London started using in January…
NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest
February 24, 2020
For the first time ever, researchers who submit papers to NeurIPS, one of the biggest AI research conferences in the world, must now state the “potential broader impact of their work” on society as well as any financial conflict of interest, conference organizers told VentureBeat.
NeurIPS is one of the first and largest AI research conferences to enact the requirements. The social impact…
Google’s AI detects adversarial attacks against image classifiers
February 24, 2020
Defenses against adversarial attacks, which in the context of AI refer to techniques that fool models through malicious input, are increasingly being broken by “defense-aware” attacks. In fact, most state-of-the-art methods claiming to detect adversarial attacks have…
Karius raises $165 million to identify infectious diseases with AI
February 24, 2020
Approximately 9% of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with an infectious disease. Worldwide, these diseases are the second-leading cause of death after heart disease, and they’re responsible for more deaths annually than cancer.
Mickey Kertesz and Tim Blauwkamp —…
MIT CSAIL’s radars map hidden features to help driverless cars navigate snowy terrain
February 24, 2020
Inclement weather — particularly rain and snow — threaten to stop autonomous vehicles in their tracks. That’s because precipitation covers cameras critical to the cars’ self-awareness and tricks sensors into perceiving obstacles that aren’t there. Plus, bad weather has a tendency to obscure road signage and structures that normally serve as navigational landmarks.
Fortunately…
