Artificial Intelligence: Week #40 | 2021

This week in AI & Machine Learning: Accessible no-code machine learning, relaunching airports with vision AI, DeepMind turns a profit, smarter traffic lights, tinyML audio classification, and more!

Authors Note:

Want to learn more about machine learning and computer vision? I teach practical hands-on workshops every month! See upcoming events at plainsight.ai/events.

My Top AI Highlight:

How Plainsight created a no-code ML platform on Google Cloud

Listen to Plainsight’s CEO, Carlos Anchia and Google Cloud Developer Advocate, Priyanka Vergadia discuss the architecture of Plainsight’s vision AI Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace and how no-code machine learning solutions are making artificial intelligence accessible to more industries. Learn more at plainsight.ai/gcm.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:

• How Can Vision AI Help Airports Relaunch in a Post-Pandemic World

• Simulated AI creatures demonstrate how mind and body evolve and succeed together

• Enabling AI-driven health advances without sacrificing patient privacy

• Alphabet’s DeepMind A.I. lab turns a profit for the first time ever

• Google wants to use AI to time traffic lights more efficiently

🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:

• End-to-end tinyML audio classification with the Raspberry Pi RP2040

• TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit — Collaborative Optimization API

• Simplifying 3D understanding using self-supervised learning and Transformers

• FedJAX: Federated Learning Simulation with JAX

• Finding Complex Metal Oxides for Technology Advancement

📅 Upcoming Online AI & Data Science Events:

• Transformers in Vision: From Zero to Hero (Oct 11 – 10:00 am PDT )

• O’Reilly Radar: Data & AI (Oct 14 7:00 am PDT)

• Faster Data Annotation for Computer Vision with AI-Powered Labeling (Oct 20 5:30 pm PDT)

• Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets (Oct 27 5:30 pm PDT)

🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:

• How Plainsight created a no-code ML platform on Google Cloud

• Maya Ackerman on LyricStudio, an AI-Based Writing Songwriting Assistant – Ep. 153

• Modeling Human Cognition with RNNs and Curriculum Learning, w/ Kanaka Rajan

• Deep Learning is Eating 5G. Here’s How, w/ Joseph Soriaga

• The mathematics of machine learning

📄 Notable Research Papers:

• Video Autoencoder: self-supervised disentanglement of static 3D structure and motion

• Machine Learning Practices Outside Big Tech: How Resource Constraints Challenge Responsible Development

• Blockchain-based Federated Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

• Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition

🐘 About the Author & Plainsight:

• Sage Elliott is a Developer Evangelist at Plainsight & passionate about making AI more approachable. Connect with Sage on Twitter or LinkedIn.
• Plainsight’s vision AI platform streamlines the end-to-end machine learning process. From data annotation through deployment, customers quickly create and successfully operationalize their own vision AI applications to solve highly diverse business challenges. Join the conversation on Slack.