machine learning

This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. MIT Technology Review: I’m sure people frequently ask you, “How do I build an AI-first business?” What do you usually…

In a new paper[1] being presented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency conference[2] next week, researchers including PhD students Nicholas Vincent and Hanlin Li propose three…

The trouble is, assembling a data set like ImageNet by hand takes a lot of time and effort. The images are typically labeled by low-paid crowdworkers[1]. Data sets might also…

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles[1]—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did…

In a study published in Science[1] today, Berger and her colleagues pull several of these strands together and use NLP to predict mutations that allow viruses to avoid being detected…

Researchers at Auburn University in Alabama and Adobe Research discovered the flaw[1] when they tried to get an NLP system to generate explanations for its behavior, such as why it…