It has become very expensive to train modern networks; in fact it has become so expensive, that some companies are choosing not to use AI methods at all. A new research paper by Neil Thompson et. al. argues that it is, or will soon be, impossible to keep increasing computational power at rate needed to […]
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AI Ethics Reading | AI Truth.org
If you want to take a deep dive into AI and ethics, go to AI Ethics Reading | AI Truth.org for an overview of critical surveys, papers, books from AI experts. It’s definitely worth checking out :-). Photo by h heyerlein on Unsplash
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times
How do you feel about the end of privacy on public places? In public transport? When you can identfy every stranger that passes by? When every stranger can indentify you without your knowledge? While this might be still a bit away, the NY Times reports that a start-up called Clearview AI is using a massive […]
A Sobering Message About the Future at AI’s Biggest Party | WIRED
The key message from this years leading AI conference NeurIPS is a sobering one. In a nutshell: it looks like AI has hit a wall or will soon hit one, unless AI research starts to embrace alternative techniques. Read more: A Sobering Message About the Future at AI’s Biggest Party | WIRED Photo by Pixabay […]
Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
Humans are almost hardwired to recognize faces. It’s important for us to tell people apart and we barely think about it. But the recognition process is far from being understood. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have compared how deep neural networks recognize faces and compared this with activation pattern data from […]
Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine
We don’t have machines or programs that understand (as human understand). However, there are tools that surpass humans on a reading test. Read more here: Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine Photo by Kaboompics .com from Pexels
Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They’re Multiplying Fast | WIRED
Two years ago, software was realeased that montaged faces of Hollywood actresses into pornographic video clips. This is now known as deepfakes and the technology has found a wide audience. While some of the manipulated videos are fun and mostly harmless like the picture above, a report by Deeptrace found 96% of deepfakes are pornographic. […]
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis | WIRED
It has become notoriously difficult to replicate experiments in the AI field. Generally speaking, getting neuronal networks to perform well can be like an art and tweaks to the network often go unreported in publications. Also, as networks grow in size and complexity, studying those models is expensive, if not impossible for all but the […]
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI – MIT Technology Review
A half-size version of the now infamous language model of OpenAI has been released and the group examined the impact of their decisions so far in a recent paper. OpenAIs decision not to publish the whole model was heavily critized. Vanya Cohen, a recent master’s graduate from Brown University, went on to recreate an open-source […]
DeepMind’s Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence | WIRED
If you look at AI from a purely business point of view, Alphabet’s DeepMind last year’s loss of $572 million should make you worry. Especially, when considering the rising magnitude of DeepMind’s losses: $154 million in 2016, $341 million in 2017 and $572 million in 2018. Basically, you need to have really deep pockets to […]