Tag Archives: ML

France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them

reader comments 233 with 115 posters participating, including story author Share this story Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax office (often called “Le Fisc“) has identified 20,356 residential swimming pools that had previously gone undeclared. According to The Guardian, this has opened up 10 million… Read More »

Machine learning, concluded: Did the “no-code” tools beat manual analysis?

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) I am not a data scientist. And while I know my way around a Jupyter notebook and have written a good amount of Python code, I do not profess to be anything close to a machine learning expert. So when I performed the first part of our no-code/low-code… Read More »

Setting our heart-attack-predicting AI loose with “no-code” tools

Enlarge / Ahhh, the easy button! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) This is the second episode in our exploration of “no-code” machine learning. In our first article, we laid out our problem set and discussed the data we would use to test whether a highly automated ML tool designed for business analysts could return… Read More »

No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools

Enlarge / Is our machine learning yet? Over the past year, machine learning and artificial intelligence technology have made significant strides. Specialized algorithms, including OpenAI’s DALL-E, have demonstrated the ability to generate images based on text prompts with increasing canniness. Natural language processing (NLP) systems have grown closer to approximating human writing and text. And… Read More »

How we learned to break down barriers to machine learning

reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story Dr. Sephus discusses breaking down barriers to machine learning at Ars Frontiers 2022. Click here for transcript. Welcome to the week after Ars Frontiers! This article is the first in a short series of pieces that will recap each of the day’s talks for the… Read More »

Sean Gallagher and an AI expert talk today about our crazy machine-learning adventure

reader comments 57 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned… Read More »

Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used a lot of compute time

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 78 with 65 posters participating Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he… Read More »

Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine?

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 79 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars… Read More »

Is our machine learning? Ars takes a dip into artificial intelligence

reader comments 79 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites,… Read More »