Carnegie Mellon Continues its Research on "Hostility-Diffusing, Peace-Seeking Hope Speech"

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have published a new report on their ongoing work on uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze online comments in social media and pick out those that defend or are sympathetic to disenfranchised groups. Read More

Hazelcast Enhances Event Stream Processing Engine

Hazelcast's Jet event stream processing engine for AI and ML deployments of mission-critical apps adds new app dev features to simplify the integration of an event-driven architecture. Read More

Machine Learning Powers New AWS Fraud Detector

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches a new managed service designed to make it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities. Read More

Facebook Uses Deep Learning to Translate One Computer Language to Another

Facebook has developed an open-source tool for translating archaic codebases into modern languages. Read More

Google Releases Toolkit for Model Transparency

Google announced the availability last week of a new set of tools for creation of Model Cards, which provide a structured framework for machine learning (ML) model transparency. Read More

OpenAI's New GPT-3 Sets a New Standard for Language Modeling--And Hype

OpenAI's GPT-3 neural-network-powered language model gets upgraded with a massive 175 billion training parameters, more than any other language model. Read More

Microsoft Becomes the Chief Maintainer of PyTorch on Windows

Microsoft expands involvement with Facebook's open-source PyTorch machine learning (ML) library, by taking ownership of the PyTorch build for Windows. Read More

MIT Researchers Leverage Machine Learning for COVID Vaccine Research

Researchers at MIT are developing a new combinatorial machine learning (ML) system that could decrease the research time needed to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and make it more effective. Read More

Nvidia and University of Florida Collaborate on Super Computer

University of Florida and Nvidia plan to build the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer in academia. Read More

Amazon Announces New AI-Based Alexa Developer Tools

Homomorphic Encryption Makes Slow But Steady Progress

Homomorphic encryption allows computation directly on encrypted data, an approach that has so far been plagued by poor peformance compared to operations on unencrypted data. But it's getting there, Pure AI editors explain. Read More

Microsoft's Project Bonsai Brings Deep Reinforcement Learning to AnyLogic

AnyLogic North America and Microsoft announced a new collaboration this week that will bring the deep reinforcement learning and machine teaching capabilities of Microsoft's Project Bonsai to AnyLogic's simulation modeling software for business applications. Read More

Amazon and Google Alums Launch Autonomous AI Service

San Francisco-based startup Abacus.AI, founded by former Amazon and Google alums, announced the general availability this week of its autonomous AI service. Read More

Microsoft Buys Orions Systems, Adds to AI Vision Capabilities in Dynamics 365

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Orions Systems last week to enhance the video AI and management capabilities of its Dynamics 365 Connected Store, an in-store retail optimization solution that uses computer vision and other sensor-based data analysis. Read More

Microsoft Uncovers Large-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Attack Against Kubernetes Clusters

Kubeflow, an open source machine learning (ML) platform for working with Kubernetes, was the target of a recent cryptocurrency mining attack in which a malicious container was deployed on tens of Kubernetes clusters within two hours. Read More

MIT, NYU Pull Tiny Images AI Training Dataset Due to Racist, Sexist Labels

Researchers at MIT and NYU took down the widely used "80 Million Tiny Images" dataset created to train machine learning systems because it was found to contain a range of racist, sexist and otherwise offensive image labels. Read More