FocusAI - Edition #76
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Edition #76 - October 15th, 2021
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State of AI Report 2021
Microsoft
Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony
Google search
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📽️ State of AI Report 2021
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. It considers research, talent, industry, politics, predictions dimensions. You should take a look.
🧪 Microsoft makes a massive facial recognition dataset via synthetic data
Fake It Till You Make It. Microsoft has built a vast dataset of synthetic faces by combining "a procedurally-generated parametric 3D face model with a comprehensive library of hand-crafted assets to render training images with unprecedented realism and diversity."
🧐 What are some of the unsolved problems in AI safety?
Berkeley, Google, and OpenAI researchers have thought about some of the unsolved problems in ML safety. These problems include robustness (long tails, representative model outputs, and adversarial examples); monitoring (detecting anomalies, identifying backdoors), and alignment (value learning, and proxy gaming/reward hacking).
🤙 YoHa, a hand tracking for the web
YoHa is a hand tracking engine that aims at being a versatile solution in scenarios where hand tracking is employed to add substantial value to an application.
🔎 Search Goes Multimodal
Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.
🎶 Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony partly composed by an AI system
Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.
The Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn performed a mock-up of partly composed by an AI system, the culmination of an 18-month project.
A big thanks to our sources: https://jack-clark.net/, https://www.actuia.com/, https://thevariable.com/news/, https://techcrunch.com/, https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/
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