Artificial Intelligence #117

Hey, in this issue: a new state of the art for unsupervised computer vision; AI drug discovery systems might be repurposed to make chemical weapons; creating confidence intervals for machine learning classifiers; containers for machine learning; advances in contrastive learning; and more.

This issue is sponsored by Scale and SearchBlox.

• [MIT] A new state of the art for unsupervised computer vision
• [SciAm] AI drug discovery systems might be repurposed to make chemical weapons, researchers warn
• [Tutorial] Creating confidence intervals for machine learning classifiers
• [Project] Cog: containers for machine learning
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• Advances in understanding, improving, and applying contrastive learning
• [ArXiv] The distributed information bottleneck reveals the explanatory structure of complex systems
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• [Google] Learning to prompt for continual learning
• [Data] Amazon releases a 51-language dataset for language understanding

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