Artificial Intelligence: Week #40 | 2021

This week in AI & Machine Learning: Accessible machine learning, relaunching airports with vision AI, DeepMind turns a profit, smarter traffic lights, tinyML audio classification, and more!

🤖 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

🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:

• How Plainsight created an 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