Latest from Google AI – FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Posted by Parker Riley, Software Engineer, and Jan Botha, Research Scientist, Google Research Many languages spoken worldwide cover numerous regional varieties (sometimes called dialects), such as Brazilian and European Portuguese or Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin Chinese. Although such varieties are often mutually intelligible to their speakers, there are still important differences. For example, the Brazilian…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google

It’s a good time to be a search startup. When I spoke to Richard Socher, the CEO of You.com, last week he was buzzing: “Man, what an exciting day—looks like another record for us,” he exclaimed. “Never had this many users. It’s been a whirlwind.” You wouldn’t know that two of the biggest firms in…

Latest from Google AI – FriendlyCore: A novel differentially private aggregation framework

Posted by Haim Kaplan and Yishay Mansour, Research Scientists, Google Research Differential privacy (DP) machine learning algorithms protect user data by limiting the effect of each data point on an aggregated output with a mathematical guarantee. Intuitively the guarantee implies that changing a single user’s contribution should not significantly change the output distribution of the…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

At 82 years old, with an aggressive form of blood cancer that six courses of chemotherapy had failed to eliminate, “Paul” appeared to be out of options. With each long and unpleasant round of treatment, his doctors had been working their way down a list of common cancer drugs, hoping to hit on something that…

Latest from Google AI – Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Robotics

Posted by Kendra Byrne, Senior Product Manager, and Jie Tan, Staff Research Scientist, Robotics at Google (This is Part 6 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) Within our lifetimes, we will see robotic technologies that can help with everyday…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – Deploying a multidisciplinary strategy with embedded responsible AI

The finance sector is among the keenest adopters of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the predictive powers of which have been demonstrated everywhere from back-office process automation to customer-facing applications. AI models excel in domains requiring pattern recognition based on well-labeled data, like fraud detection models trained on past behavior. ML can support…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week was the week chatbot-powered search engines were supposed to arrive. The big idea is that these AI bots would upend our experience of searching the web by generating chatty answers…

Latest from MIT : Efficient technique improves machine-learning models’ reliability

Powerful machine-learning models are being used to help people tackle tough problems such as identifying disease in medical images or detecting road obstacles for autonomous vehicles. But machine-learning models can make mistakes, so in high-stakes settings it’s critical that humans know when to trust a model’s predictions. Uncertainty quantification is one tool that improves a…