iclr ICLR 2022 Hosts Tenth Virtual Conference on Learning Representations The Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) takes place virtually from April 25th through April 29th, 2022. The event features open public access to its virtual site, supported by generous sponsors that help lower ticket prices and fund diversity initiatives.
stable diffusion Stable Diffusion Transforms AI Imagery With Open Source Release Stable Diffusion offers a fully open text-to-image model that users run locally or try online for free. Its unique image-to-image feature provides unprecedented creative control.
mit MIT and Pillar VC Launch Program to Turn AI Research Into Viable Products The new MIT-Pillar AI Collective provides seed grants, mentorship, and market discovery support to help graduate students and postdocs commercialize their artificial intelligence and data science research.
ai ethics Stanford Report Shows Bigger AI Models Cause More Ethical Harm The 2022 AI Index reveals a troubling trend where more capable AI systems produce greater ethical harms, prompting a surge in industry and academic research focused on measuring these negative impacts.
nvidia Nvidia GTC 2022 Unveils AI Breakthroughs and Climate Simulation Tech Nvidia reveals massive AI speed improvements and an Earth 2 digital twin for climate forecasting at its GTC 2022 keynote. CEO Jensen Huang also highlights new hardware designed for advanced machine learning transformations.
dall-e mini DALL-E Mini's Unexplained Obsession With Generating Women in Saris Users discover that running blank prompts in DALL-E mini overwhelmingly produces images of brown-skinned women in saris. AI researchers point to poor tagging and incomplete training datasets as the likely cause of this strange glitch.
google cloud Google Cloud Highlights Major Speech AI Advancements in 2022 Google Cloud reflects on a busy 2022 for speech AI, marked by a new visual interface for Speech-to-Text and custom voice support for Text-to-Speech. These tools help businesses easily integrate advanced voice technologies into their applications.
azure Azure Machine Learning January 2022 Features Reach General Availability Microsoft announces the general availability of several Azure Machine Learning features from January 2022. These production-ready updates allow all Azure customers to integrate advanced AI capabilities directly into their workflows.
duke ai health Duke AI Health Roundup Explores Machine Comprehension and Algorithmic Bias The latest Duke AI Health Friday Roundup highlights crucial developments in natural language processing, AI image generation, and the historical roots of racial bias in photography. The summary also points to significant public health updates regarding anxiety screening and pulse oximeter accuracy.
alphafold AlphaFold AI Transforms Drug Discovery With 200 Million Predicted Protein Structures A groundbreaking artificial intelligence system called AlphaFold provides open access to over 200 million predicted protein structures. This massive database gives scientists an unprecedented tool to understand diseases and accelerate the development of new medicines.
google brain Google Brain Unveils Imagen AI, Surpassing DALL-E 2 in Image Generation Google's Brain Team introduces Imagen, a text-to-image AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results on standard benchmarks using a unique pre-training approach. The system generates highly realistic images from text descriptions while outperforming competitors like DALL-E 2.
google Google Unveils AI Tools for Flood Prediction and Wildfire Tracking Google hosts its inaugural AI@ Event to showcase new artificial intelligence projects focused on climate change and disaster management. Key highlights include an expanded Flood Hub platform and an improved wildfire detection system.
neurips 2022 NeurIPS 2022 Hosts Hybrid AI Conference in New Orleans The 36th annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference takes place as a hybrid event, combining in-person gatherings in New Orleans with a virtual experience.
lightning ai Lightning AI Secures $40M to Build Modular Operating System for AI Development Lightning AI raises a $40M Series B to expand its platform that allows users to build AI and machine learning applications using modular, open-source components without needing deep technical expertise.
mit MIT AI System Helps Autonomous Vehicles Avoid Idling at Red Lights MIT researchers develop a machine-learning approach that controls autonomous vehicle speeds to reduce stopping at red lights. The method cuts fuel consumption and emissions while keeping traffic moving smoothly.