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The World This Week

In the world of AI

Startups, Businesses and Enterprise

Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork
Getty sidesteps potential legal problems from unresolved rights and ethics issues.
View Synthesis with Transformers
Posted by Carlos Esteves and Ameesh Makadia, Research Scientists, Google Research A long-standing problem in the intersection of computer...
FindIt: Generalized Object Localization with Natural Language Queries
Posted by Weicheng Kuo and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Natural language enables flexible descript...
Canva’s AI Text to Image Generator
Canva.com is an Australian-based easy-to-use online graphics platform.
Building safer dialogue agents
In our latest paper, we introduce Sparrow – a dialogue agent that’s useful and reduces the risk of unsafe and inappropriate answers. Our agent is designed to talk with a user, answer questions, and search the internet using Google when it’s helpful to look up evidence to inform its responses.
Voxel51 lands funds for its platform to manage unstructured data
Voxel51, a startup developing a platform to help customers in AI manage unstructured data, including visual data, has raised fresh venture capital.

Research Papers and Open Source

We Can Now Train Big Neural Networks on Small Devices
The gadgets around us are constantly learning about our lives. We appreciate the conveniences they provide, but the information we share with our gadgets isn’t always kept between us and our electronic minders. A new AI training method could potentially help to preserve users’ privacy.
Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins
Huge advances in artificial intelligence mean researchers can design completely original molecules in seconds instead of months.
Introducing Whisper
We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. Read Paper View Code View Model Card Whisper examples: Reveal Transcript Whisper is an automatic speech recogn…
Perceptron: Multilingual, laughing, Pitfall-playing and streetwise AI
This edition of Perceptron, TechCrunch’s semiregular AI column, dives into multimodal, multilingual AI systems and the ethics around generative art systems.

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Tuesday:

Algorithmic Information Theory-II
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Wednesday:

Whisper
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Thursday:

Discrete Search Algorithms
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Friday:

Quaternary search
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