Artificial Intelligence

What’s next for AI regulation in 2024? 

Some other countries are taking a more hands-off approach. For example, the UK, home of Google DeepMind, has said it does not...

Entity embeddings for fun and profit

What’s useful about embeddings? Depending on who you ask, answers may vary. For many, the most immediate association may be word vectors and...

The Download: producing rare earth minerals, and future AI regulation

Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. And access...

Posit AI Blog: Concepts in object detection

A few weeks ago, we provided an introduction to the task of naming and locating objects in images. Crucially, we confined ourselves to detecting...

Can AI provide better customer service?

Taking on big challenges is nothing new for Tsai, who was just 15 when she arrived at MIT. And while she always...

Getting started with TensorFlow Probability from R

With the abundance of great libraries, in R, for statistical computing, why would you be interested in TensorFlow Probability (TFP, for short)? Well...

The art of unearthing history

“I’ll scratch film or cut it up or reassemble it or add things like saffron leaves and petals or tree bark. Right...

Nir Eyal on How to Defeat Distraction

MOLLY WOOD: Today I’m talking to Nir Eyal, a bestselling author and entrepreneur with expertise in how to make products and services engaging...

Discrete Representation Learning with VQ-VAE and TensorFlow Probability

About two weeks ago, we introduced TensorFlow Probability (TFP), showing how to create and sample from distributions and put them to use in...

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