Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that looks at the human element that powers technology. For this episode we spoke with Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at NYU; Mara Mills, associate professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU and co-director of the NYU Center for Disability…
Howard University professor talks about his research in emerging technologies. More about cybersecurity TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Dr. Danda Rawat, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Howard University, about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and how they can help cybersecurity. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby:…
© Axel Heimken/dpa/Getty Images Machine learning is a common tool in robotics technology. Axel Heimken/dpa/Getty Images Machine learning allows a computer to teach itself how to solve problems by analyzing large sets of data. Human programmers don’t teach machine learning systems how to solve problems, nor do they generally understand the algorithm that a computer…
Recently, analysts at NVIDIA declared MegatronLM, a huge transformer model with 8.3 billion parameters (multiple times bigger than BERT) that accomplished cutting-edge performance on a variety of language tasks. There are numerous instances of monstrous models being trained to accomplish somewhat higher precision on different benchmarks. In spite of being 24X bigger than BERT, MegatronLM…
Howard University professor talks about his research in emerging technologies. More about cybersecurity TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Dr. Danda Rawat, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Howard University, about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and how they can help cybersecurity. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby:…
Artificial intelligence is classifying real supernova explosions without the traditional use of spectra, thanks to a team of astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The complete data sets and resulting classifications are publicly available for open use. By training a machine learning model to categorize supernovae based on their visible characteristics,…
Facebook-owned image-sharing platform Instagram uses machine learning to prioritise posts on the basis of relevance, freshness, popularity and user preference. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Image-sharing platform Instagram displays a range of posts on a user’s home feed and…
A pre-requisite for good macroeconomic policymaking is timely information on the current state of the economy, particularly when economic activity is changing rapidly. Given that GDP figures are usually only available on a quarterly basis, and that monthly survey-based indicators (such as the Purchasing Managers’ Indices) can become unreliable when changes in economic activity are…
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