FocusAI - Edition #94
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Edition #94 - March 25th, 2022
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👩🏫 AI could revolutionize education for everyone
Researchers with ed-tech startup Korbit, MILA, and the University of Bath have explored how much of a difference AI makes in education. Specifically, they tested the difference in educational outcomes between students who were studying up on data science via a MOOC online course, and students who were studying the same subject via an AI-infused personalized tutor built by Korbit. The results are startling: "We observe a statistically significant increase in the learning outcomes, with students on Korbit providing full feedback achieving learning gains 2-2.5 times higher than both students on the MOOC platform and a control group of students who don’t receive personalized feedback on the Korbit platform," they write.
🏢 DeepMind co-founder launches new AI company
DeepMind co-founder and famous venture capitalist Reid Hoffman are launching Inflection, "an AI-first consumer products company, incubated at Greylock". Inflection's chief scientist is Karén Simonyan, a former DeepMind researcher who has worked on meaningful AI projects like AlphaGo, AlphaFold, WaveNet, and BigGAN.
📃 What happened with artificial intelligence in 2021? The AI Index gives a clue
The AI Index, a Stanford University project to annually assess the state of the AI sector has come out. This year's report features a new chapter dedicated to AI ethics, including a close examination of some of the fairness and other ethical issues relating to large language models.
♦️ Know When to Fold ’Em
Casinos and gaming websites are using machine learning to flag gamblers who show signs of addictive behavior, The New York Times reported.
Gambling businesses risk losing their licenses if they facilitate ruinous behavior. Moreover, they make more money on gamblers who pace themselves than those who lose their shirts. Denmark-based Mindway AI mitigates these risks by flagging worrisome behavior on the part of their customers. The system is mainly employed by online betting platforms, including Flutter Entertainment and Entain, but brick-and-mortar casinos have adopted the system as well.
🐷 Pig Sentiment Analysis
Neural networks may help farmers make sure their animals are happy.
Researchers led by Elodie Briefer and Ciara Sypherd at University of Copenhagen developed a system that interprets the moods behind a pig’s grunts and squeals.
The authors trained convolutional neural networks to classify porcine expressions using a database of 7,414 vocal sounds made by animals engaged in 19 situations like feeding, fighting, running, or being led to a slaughterhouse.
The models achieved 91.5 percent accuracy classifying the sentiment of calls and 81.5 percent identifying the situation. A method that classified calls without machine learning achieved 61.7 percent and 19.5 percent respectively.
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