By Yi Chang and Chengqi Zhang
Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered into a new era, and its rapid development will profoundly affect the everyday life of citizens worldwide. Countries around the...
Hercules Slaying the Hydra
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By Paul Michel
Since their inception in this 2017 paper by Vaswani et al., transformer models have become a staple of NLP research. They are used in m...
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By Richard Liaw, Eric Liang and Kristian Hartikainen
In this blog post, we share our experiences in developing two critical software libraries that many BAIR researchers ...
Many of us spend a significant portion of our day online and, in doing so, through our interactions with social media and IoT devices, leave a trail of “digital footprints” in our wake. Could this...
Hamid Tizhoosh in his lab at the University of Waterloo. Image: University of Waterloo.
A new system combining artificial intelligence (AI) with human knowledge promises faster and more accurate ca...
Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new material using Bayesian machine learning algorithms. Using the results of their computational simulations they have fabricated two designs at different len...
COMPRISE (cost-effective, multilingual, privacy-driven voice-enabled services) is a European-funded Horizon 2020 project looking into the next generation of voice interaction services. The project ai...
Autonomous vehicles must be well-integrated into public transport systems if they are to take off in Europe's cities, say researchers. Image credit - Keolis
By Julianna Photopoulos
Jutting out i...
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By Glen Berseth
All living organisms carve out environmental niches within which they can maintain relative predictability amidst the ever-increasing entropy around the...
Connecting the dots.
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By Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Canadian artificial intelligence firm BlueDot has been in the news i...
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during February 2020.
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By Karin Söderlund Leifler
An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. Th...
A colored electron microscope image of MRSA.
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By Sriram Chandrasekaran, University of Michigan
Imagine you’re a fossil hunter. You spend months in...
Training machines using unbiased data and methodology is something that should be considered when designing artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Machine decisions can affect our rights, and we need ...
In this post Sanket Shah (Singapore Management University) writes about his ride-pooling journey, from Bangalore to AAAI-20, with a few stops in-between....
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By Ruoxi Jia
People give massive amounts of their personal data to companies every day and these data are used to generate tremendous business values. Some economists and politicians...
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By Jean Frederic Isingizwe Nturambirwe, Stellenbosch University and Umezuruike Linus Opara, Stellenbosch University
Modern farming has evolved by adopting technical advances such as...
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during January 2020.
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By Laura Smith and Marvin Zhang
One of the most important markers of intelligence is the ability to learn by watching others. Humans are particularly good at this, often being able to learn tasks ...
The Machine Learning for Health workshop at NeurIPS 2019 brought together machine learning researchers, clinicians, and healthcare data experts. With the theme “what makes machine learning in medici...
By Michael Janner
Reinforcement learning systems can make decisions in one of two ways. In the model-based approach, a system uses a predictive model of the world to ask questions of the form “wh...
Is our autonomy affected by interacting with intelligent machines designed to persuade us? That’s what researchers at the University of Bristol attempted to find out through an analysis of the inte...
By Aviral Kumar
One of the primary factors behind the success of machine learning approaches in open world settings, such as image recognition and natural language processing, has been the ability ...
Ever fancied finding out more about historical trends? Well, thanks to researchers at the University of Bristol, and their History Playground tool, anyone can analyse the content from a collection of ...
By David Gaddy
When learning to follow natural language instructions, neural networks tend to be very data hungry – they require a huge number of examples pairing language with actions in order to ...
By Anusha Nagabandi
Dexterous manipulation with multi-fingered hands is a grand challenge in robotics: the versatility of the human hand is as yet unrivaled by the capabilities of robotic systems...
By Nicholas Carlini
It is important whenever designing new technologies to ask “how will this affect people’s privacy?” This topic is especially important with regard to machine learning, where...
Whether it's tying a tie, making slime, fixing a leaky faucet, or some other daily task, millions of people watch how-to videos to learn new skills. Now, artificially intelligent (AI)&n...
By Marvin Zhang and Sharad Vikram
Imagine a robot trying to learn how to stack blocks and push objects using visual inputs from a camera feed. In order to minimize cost and safety concerns, we want o...
By Anusha Nagabandi and Ignasi Clavera
Humans have the ability to seamlessly adapt to changes in their environments: adults can learn to walk on crutches in just a few seconds, people can adapt almos...
By Annie Xie
In many animals, tool-use skills emerge from a combination of observational learning and experimentation. For example, by watching one another, chimpanzees can learn how to use twigs to...
By Frederik Ebert and Stephen Tian
Guiding our fingers while typing, enabling us to nimbly strike a matchstick, and inserting a key in a keyhole all rely on our sense of touch. It has been shown that...