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12/4/2020
3 : 24
Import AI 225: Tencent climbs the compute curve; NVIDIA invents a hard AI benchmark; a story about Pyramids and Computers
How will COVID influence demand for computers? That depends on the extent to which some of the digitization the crisis has caused remains - and history suggests it will. How might this drive further
11/23/2020
11 : 4
Import AI 224: AI cracks the exaflop barrier; robots and COVID surveillance; gender bias in computer vision
A fiction idea: What would a 'high tech' heaven and hell look like? What gadgets would they have? How might different divine beings utilize technology and how might it appear? And would Angels
11/16/2020
10 : 4
Import AI 223: Why AI systems break; how robots influence employment; and tools to 'detoxify' language models
What will be the last job that humans _need_ to do, versus have a particular _desire_ to do? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward
11/2/2020
11 : 4
Import AI 221: How to poison GPT3; an Exaflop of compute for COVID; plus, analyzing campaign finance with DeepForm
2020 has been a hell of a year - I do find it quite reassuring that despite everything there are still many research papers being published, as humanity collectively tries to make progress. View this
10/26/2020
15 : 44
Import AI 220 [FIXED]: Google builds an AI border wall; better speech rec via pre-training; plus, a summary of ICLR papers
Now containing the whole newsletter, following a Mailchimp error. If you haven't met me in real life and are curious what I sound like, take a listen to this Skynet Today podcast where I talk about
10/26/2020
11 : 4
Import AI 220: Google builds an AI border wall; better speech rec via pre-training; plus, a summary of ICLR papers
If you haven't met me in real life and are curious what I sound like, take a listen to this Skynet Today 'Let's Talk AI' podcast where I talk about one of my major obsessions -
10/19/2020
11 : 14
Import AI 219: Climate change and function approximation; Access Now leaves PAI; LSTMs are smarter than they seem
If the deployment of AI systems starts to change cultures, how might we expect AI systems to be re-engineered to account for expected cultural changes? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import
10/12/2020
11 : 14
Import AI 218: Testing bias with CrowS; how Africans are building a domestic NLP community; COVID becomes a surveillance excuse
If last year was about scaling things up and this year is about developing multi-modal networks (eg, ones that learn text and image representations in tandem, like this demo from the Allen Institute
10/5/2020
11 : 14
Import AI 217: Deepfaked congressmen and deepfaked kids; steering GPT3 with GeDi; Amazon's robots versus its humans
What will be the AI experiment equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email to give your
9/28/2020
11 : 4
Import AI 216: Google learns a learning optimizer; resources for African NLP; US and UK deepen AI coordination
'Come out, come out, wherever you are!' - Alexa, playing a 'game' with some human children, by playing hide and seek via Amazon's new Ring indoor security drone. 2022. View this
9/14/2020
15 : 4
Import AI 214 (fixed!): NVIDIA+ARM; a 57-subject NLP test; and AI for plant disease identification
Plus: Anduril's new drone; the computational power of the brain Apologies for the half-formed newsletter sent earlier today! View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about
9/14/2020
11 : 14
Import AI 214: NVIDIA's $40bn ARM deal; a new 57-subject NLP test; AI for plant disease detection
We're now around eight years on from the breakthrough ImageNet result that catalyzed some of the current AI boom. What will the next eight years bring? View this email in your browser Welcome to
9/7/2020
10 : 9
Import AI 213: DeepFakes can lipsync now; plus hiding military gear with adversarial examples.
The tendency towards training larger networks on larger amounts of data means, at some point, there will be an economic incentive to create large amounts of new data. How might existing incentive
8/31/2020
10 : 9
Import AI 212: Robots are getting smart; humans+machines = trouble, says DHS; a 10k product dataset
How might future 'robot cities' be constructed at different scales - would a large-scale city with human-scale structures (but not for human use) assume a form different to that of a city with
8/24/2020
11 : 9
Import AI 211: In AI dogfight, Machines: 5, Humans: 0; Baidu releases a YOLO variant; and the Bitter Lesson and video action recognition
In the same way the 2010s were defined by the large-scale application of supervised learning methods, what will 2020 end up being defined by? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a
8/17/2020
10 : 9
Import AI 210: Satellite collisions & ML; helping the blind navigate with Lookout; why Deepfakes are the most worrying AI threat
It's been about eight years since the 2012 ImageNet competition result which kickstarted the current AI boom. Societies worldwide are now grappling with the consequences of the widespread
8/10/2020
11 : 9
Import AI 209: Tractors+AI; AlphaFold makes more COVID progress; and UK government pulls immigration algorithm
Plus: The truth about deepfakes, Google's COVID early warning systems, plus 1.7million arXiv docs on Kaggle As more of the world's aggregate computing power sits inside mobile devices, like
8/3/2020
10 : 34
Import AI 208: Google trains a vision system in <1 minute; Gender+AI = bad; Ubisoft improves character animation with ML
By 2025, I expect most major technology entities will have their own idiosyncratic compute stacks; Google will have TPUs, Amazon might have RISC+GPU accelerators, etc. What do you think will happen?
7/27/2020
11 : 4
207: Counter AI; Nixon's deepfaked moon speech; and the future of AI-driven negotiation
If AI systems start to produce more media like text and videos and music, then how might human artists change in response? Could the arrival of more AI-driven art lead to humans discovering new forms
7/13/2020
11 : 6
Import AI 205: Generative models & clones; Hikvision cameras get smarter; and a full stack deep learning course.
Plus: a machine grades 160k students, disaster ensues; a good AI policy job in Washington DC; and more! In the same way artists and developers are starting to use large-scale AI systems for idea