Aug 03, 2022

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Driverless car
Aug 03, 2022

The Batch: UK's Drone Superhighway, Largest Open Source Language Model, AI Protects Bees, Countering Biased Labels

While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
Vehicle avoiding traffic cones
Aug 03, 2022

The Trouble With Reinforcement Learning

While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky.
Drone delivering package.
Aug 03, 2022

Where Drones Fly Free: The UK’s Superhighway in the Sky for Drones

Autonomous aircraft in the United Kingdom are getting their own superhighway. The UK government approved Project Skyway, a 165-mile system of interconnected drone-only flight routes.
Bloom logo
Aug 03, 2022

Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date

A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.
Bees pollinating flowers
Aug 03, 2022

Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees

A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.
A flowchart shows how a jury learning method reduces annotator bias in machine learning models.
Aug 03, 2022

Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models

A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.

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