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Codeword, a leading tech-marketing agency, today announced a first-of-its-kind internship program. The agency is adding two interns to its team of 106 people, though the interns aren’t people themselves.

<p>We present a dataset of 5,85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, 14x bigger than LAION-400M, previously the biggest openly accessible image-text datas...

Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released new results from MLPerf Training v2.0, which measures how fast various platforms train machine learning [...]

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the entire Google Research community Over the last several decades, I'v...

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How image search works at Dropbox // By Thomas Berg • May 11, 2021 Photos are among the most common types of files in Dropbox, but searching for them by filename is even less productive than it is for text-based files.  When youre looking for that photo from a picnic a few years ago, you surely dont remember that the filename set by your camera was 2017-07-04 12.37.54.jpg.   Instead, you look at individual photos, or thumbnails of them, and try to identify objects or aspects that ...

Machine learning faces its toughest challenge yet: Discerning donuts from bagels Machine learning may border on magic, and provide many of the biggest technical benefits weve enjoyed in the last decade, but it has plenty of "weak spots." One of Googles biggest concerns is that models are often trained using example data thats too easy to interpret, making them unprepared for the greater ambiguity of the real world. Case in point: Telling a donut from a bagel. Its an easy mistake to make, they s...

Microsoft’s new research focuses on improving the image-encoding module. When combined with VL fusion modules such as OSCAR and VIVO,  Microsoft’s newest VL system scored big on the most competitive artificial intelligence (AI) benchmarks, including visual question answering (VQA), Microsoft COCO Image Captioning, and novel object captioning (nocaps).  The tech giant also highlighted that VinVL significantly surpasses human performance on the nocaps leaderboard for consensus-based image d...