Artificial Intelligence #59

Hey, in this issue: why machine learning struggles with causality, an AI chip that works using light and not electrons, learning from videos to understand the world, a legal NLP dataset with over 13,000 annotations, SpeechBrain—a PyTorch powered speech toolkit, the article on self-supervised learning from the previous issue explained, and more.

This issue is sponsored by Gradient Flow and Lambda Labs.

• Why machine learning struggles with causality
• A legal NLP dataset with over 13,000 annotations released (paper, code and models)
• SpeechBrain, a PyTorch powered speech toolkit is out (with pre-trained models on Huggingface)
• Public Opinion of Artificial Intelligence Dashboard: Americans trust AI almost as much as each other
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• TimeSformer: a new architecture for video understanding
• [Article Explained] Self-Supervised Learning: The Dark Matter of Intelligence (original article)
• This chip for AI works using light, not electrons
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• Learning from videos to understand the world

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