Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebooks Workplace, and Googles Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users. The milestone overshadowed its unveiling of a few new features coming later this year. Most were straightforward: a hand-raising feature to indicate you have something to say, offline and low-bandwidth support to read chat messages and write responses even if you have poor or no internet connection, and an option to pop chats out into a separate window. But one feature, real-time noise suppression, stood out Microsoft demoed how the AI minimized distracting background noise during a call.

Weve all been there. How many times have you asked someone to mute themselves or to relocate from a noisy area? Real-time noise suppression will filter out someone typing on their keyboard while in a meeting, the rustling of a bag of chips (as you can see in the video above), and a vacuum cleaner running in the background. AI will remove the background noise in real time so you can hear only speech on the call. But how exactly does it work? We talked to Robert Aichner, Microsoft Teams group program manager, to find out.

The use of collaboration and video conferencing tools is exploding as the coronavirus crisis forces millions to learn and work from home. Microsoft is pushing Teams as the solution for businesses and consumers as part of its Microsoft 365 subscription suite. The company is leaning on its machine learning expertise to ensure AI features are one of its big differentiators. When it finally arrives, real-time background noise suppression will be a boon for businesses and households full of distracting noises. Additionally, how Microsoft built the feature is also instructive to other companies tapping machine learning.

Of course, noise suppression has existed in the Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Skype for Business apps for years. Other communication tools and video conferencing apps have some form of noise suppression as well. But that noise suppression covers stationary noise, such as a computer fan or air conditioner running in the background. The traditional noise suppression method is to look for speech pauses, estimate the baseline of noise, assume that the continuous background noise doesnt change over time, and filter it out.

Going forward, Microsoft Teams will suppress non-stationary noises like a dog barking or somebody shutting a door. That is not stationary, Aichner explained. You cannot estimate that in speech pauses. What machine learning now allows you to do is to create this big training set, with a lot of representative noises.

In fact, Microsoft open-sourced its training set earlier this year on GitHub to advance the research community in that field. While the first version is publicly available, Microsoft is actively working on extending the data sets. A company spokesperson confirmed that as part of the real-time noise suppression feature, certain categories of noises in the data sets will not be filtered out on calls, including musical instruments, laughter, and singing. (More on that here: ProBeat: Microsoft Teams video calls and the ethics of invisible AI.)

Microsoft cant simply isolate the sound of human voices because other noises also happen at the same frequencies. On a spectrogram of speech signal, unwanted noise appears in the gaps between speech and overlapping with the speech. Its thus next to impossible to filter out the noise if your speech and noise overlap, you cant distinguish the two. Instead, you need to train a neural network beforehand on what noise looks like and speech looks like.

To get his points across, Aichner compared machine learning models for noise suppression to machine learning models for speech recognition. For speech recognition, you need to record a large corpus of users talking into the microphone and then have humans label that speech data by writing down what was said. Instead of mapping microphone input to written words, in noise suppression youre trying to get from noisy speech to clean speech.

We train a model to understand the difference between noise and speech, and then the model is trying to just keep the speech, Aichner said. We have training data sets. We took thousands of diverse speakers and more than 100 noise types. And then what we do is we mix the clean speech without noise with the noise. So we simulate a microphone signal. And then you also give the model the clean speech as the ground truth. So youre asking the model, From this noisy data, please extract this clean signal, and this is how it should look like. Thats how you train neural networks [in] supervised learning, where you basically have some ground truth.

For speech recognition, the ground truth is what was said into the microphone. For real-time noise suppression, the ground truth is the speech without noise. By feeding a large enough data set in this case hundreds of hours of data Microsoft can effectively train its model. Its able to generalize and reduce the noise with my voice even though my voice wasnt part of the training data, Aichner said. In real time, when I speak, there is noise that the model would be able to extract the clean speech [from] and just send that to the remote person.

Comparing the functionality to speech recognition makes noise suppression sound much more achievable, even though its happening in real time. So why has it not been done before? Can Microsofts competitors quickly recreate it? Aichner listed challenges for building real-time noise suppression, including finding representative data sets, building and shrinking the model, and leveraging machine learning expertise.

We already touched on the first challenge: representative data sets. The team spent a lot of time figuring out how to produce sound files that exemplify what happens on a typical call.

They used audio books for representing male and female voices, since speech characteristics do differ between male and female voices. They used YouTube data sets with labeled data that specify that a recording includes, say, typing and music. Aichners team then combined the speech data and noises data using a synthesizer script at different signal to noise ratios. By amplifying the noise, they could imitate different realistic situations that can happen on a call.

But audiobooks are drastically different than conference calls. Would that not affect the model, and thus the noise suppression?

That is a good point, Aichner conceded. Our team did make some recordings as well to make sure that we are not just training on synthetic data we generate ourselves, but that it also works on actual data. But its definitely harder to get those real recordings.

Aichners team is not allowed to look at any customer data. Additionally, Microsoft has strict privacy guidelines internally. I cant just simply say, Now I record every meeting.'

So the team couldnt use Microsoft Teams calls. Even if they could say, if some Microsoft employees opted-in to have their meetings recorded someone would still have to mark down when exactly distracting noises occurred.

And so thats why we right now have some smaller-scale effort of making sure that we collect some of these real recordings with a variety of devices and speakers and so on, said Aichner. What we then do is we make that part of the test set. So we have a test set which we believe is even more representative of real meetings. And then, we see if we use a certain training set, how well does that do on the test set? So ideally yes, I would love to have a training set, which is all Teams recordings and have all types of noises people are listening to. Its just that I cant easily get the same number of the same volume of data that I can by grabbing some other open source data set.

I pushed the point once more: How would an opt-in program to record Microsoft employees using Teams impact the feature?

You could argue that it gets better, Aichner said. If you have more representative data, it could get even better. So I think thats a good idea to potentially in the future see if we can improve even further. But I think what we are seeing so far is even with just taking public data, it works really well.

The next challenge is to figure out how to build the neural network, what the model architecture should be, and iterate. The machine learning model went through a lot of tuning. That required a lot of compute. Aichners team was of course relying on Azure, using many GPUs. Even with all that compute, however, training a large model with a large data set could take multiple days.

A lot of the machine learning happens in the cloud, Aichner said. So, for speech recognition for example, you speak into the microphone, thats sent to the cloud. The cloud has huge compute, and then you run these large models to recognize your speech. For us, since its real-time communication, I need to process every frame. Lets say its 10 or 20 millisecond frames. I need to now process that within that time, so that I can send that immediately to you. I cant send it to the cloud, wait for some noise suppression, and send it back.

For speech recognition, leveraging the cloud may make sense. For real-time noise suppression, its a nonstarter. Once you have the machine learning model, you then have to shrink it to fit on the client. You need to be able to run it on a typical phone or computer. A machine learning model only for people with high-end machines is useless.

Theres another reason why the machine learning model should live on the edge rather than the cloud. Microsoft wants to limit server use. Sometimes, there isnt even a server in the equation to begin with. For one-to-one calls in Microsoft Teams, the call setup goes through a server, but the actual audio and video signal packets are sent directly between the two participants. For group calls or scheduled meetings, there is a server in the picture, but Microsoft minimizes the load on that server. Doing a lot of server processing for each call increases costs, and every additional network hop adds latency. Its more efficient from a cost and latency perspective to do the processing on the edge.

You want to make sure that you push as much of the compute to the endpoint of the user because there isnt really any cost involved in that. You already have your laptop or your PC or your mobile phone, so now lets do some additional processing. As long as youre not overloading the CPU, that should be fine, Aichner said.

I pointed out there is a cost, especially on devices that arent plugged in: battery life. Yeah, battery life, we are obviously paying attention to that too, he said. We dont want you now to have much lower battery life just because we added some noise suppression. Thats definitely another requirement we have when we are shipping. We need to make sure that we are not regressing there.

Its not just regression that the team has to consider, but progression in the future as well. Because were talking about a machine learning model, the work never ends.

We are trying to build something which is flexible in the future because we are not going to stop investing in noise suppression after we release the first feature, Aichner said. We want to make it better and better. Maybe for some noise tests we are not doing as good as we should. We definitely want to have the ability to improve that. The Teams client will be able to download new models and improve the quality over time whenever we think we have something better.

The model itself will clock in at a few megabytes, but it wont affect the size of the client itself. He said, Thats also another requirement we have. When users download the app on the phone or on the desktop or laptop, you want to minimize the download size. You want to help the people get going as fast as possible.

Adding megabytes to that download just for some model isnt going to fly, Aichner said. After you install Microsoft Teams, later in the background it will download that model. Thats what also allows us to be flexible in the future that we could do even more, have different models.

All the above requires one final component: talent.

You also need to have the machine learning expertise to know what you want to do with that data, Aichner said. Thats why we created this machine learning team in this intelligent communications group. You need experts to know what they should do with that data. What are the right models? Deep learning has a very broad meaning. There are many different types of models you can create. We have several centers around the world in Microsoft Research, and we have a lot of audio experts there too. We are working very closely with them because they have a lot of expertise in this deep learning space.

The data is open source and can be improved upon. A lot of compute is required, but any company can simply leverage a public cloud, including the leaders Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. So if another company with a video chat tool had the right machine learners, could they pull this off?

The answer is probably yes, similar to how several companies are getting speech recognition, Aichner said. They have a speech recognizer where theres also lots of data involved. Theres also lots of expertise needed to build a model. So the large companies are doing that.

Aichner believes Microsoft still has a heavy advantage because of its scale. I think that the value is the data, he said. What we want to do in the future is like what you said, have a program where Microsoft employees can give us more than enough real Teams Calls so that we have an even better analysis of what our customers are really doing, what problems they are facing, and customize it more towards that.

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The level-headed evaluation of submitted research by other experts in the field is what grants scientific journals and academic conferences their respected positions. Peer review determines which papers get published, and that in turn can determine which academic theories are promoted, which projects are funded, and which awards are won.

In recent years however peer review processes have come under fire especially from the machine learning community with complaints of long delays, inconsistent standards and unqualified reviewers.

A new paper proposes replacing peer review with a novel State-Of-the-Art Review (SOAR) system, a neoteric reviewing pipeline that serves as a plug-and-play replacement for peer review.

SOAR improves scaling, consistency and efficiency and can be easily implemented as a plugin to score papers and offer a direct read/dont read recommendation. The team explain that SOAR evaluates a papers efficacy and novelty by calculating the total occurrences in the manuscript of the terms state-of-the-art and novel.

If only a solution were that simple but yes, SOAR was an April Fools prank.

The paper was a product of SIGBOVIK 2020, a yearly satire event of the Association for Computational Heresy and Carnegie Mellon University that presents humorous fake research in computer science. Previous studies have included Denotational Semantics of Pidgin and Creole, Artificial Stupidity, Elbow Macaroni, Rasterized Love Triangles, and Operational Semantics of Chevy Tahoes.

Seriously though, since 1998 the volume of AI papers in peer-reviewed journals has grown by more than 300 percent, according to the AI Index 2019 Report. Meanwhile major AI conferences like NeurIPS, AAAI and CVPR are setting new paper submission records every year.

This has inevitably led to a shortage of qualified peer reviewers in the machine learning community. In a previous Synced story, CVPR 2019 and ICCV 2019 Area Chair Jia-Bin Huang introduced research that used deep learning to predict whether a paper should be accepted based solely on its visual appearance. He told Synced the idea of training a classifier to recognize good/bad papers has been around since 2010.

Huang knows that although his model achieves decent classification performance it is unlikely to ever be used in an actual conference. Such analysis and classification might however be helpful for junior authors when considering how to prepare for their paper submissions.

Turing awardee Yoshua Bengio meanwhile believes the fundamental problem with todays peer review process lies in a publish or perish paradigm that can sacrifice paper depth and quality in favour of speedy publication.

Bengio blogged on the topic earlier this year, proposing a rethink of the overall publication process in the field of machine learning, with reviewing being a crucial element to safeguard research culture amid the fields exponential growth in size.

Machine learning has almost completely switched to a conference publication model, Bengio wrote, and we go from one deadline to the next every two months. In the lead-up to conference submission deadlines, many papers are rushed and things are not checked properly. The race to get more papers out especially as first or co-first author can also be crushing and counterproductive. Bengio is strongly urging the community to take a step back, think deeply, verify things carefully, etc.

Bengio says he has been thinking of a potentially different publication model for ML, where papers are first submitted to a fast turnaround journal such as the Journal of Machine Learning Research for example, and then conference program committees select the papers they like from the list of accepted and reviewed (scored) papers.

Conferences have played a central role in ML, as they can speed up the research cycle, enable interactions between researchers, and generate a fast turnaround of ideas. And peer-reviewed journals have for decades been the backbone of the broader scientific research community. But with the growing popularity of preprint servers like arXiv and upcoming ML conferences going digital due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this may be the time to rethink, redesign and reboot the ML paper review and publication process.

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New data from GumGums content analysis AI system reveals that keyword-based safety strategies are unduly denying brands access to vast viable ad inventories

GumGum, Inc., an artificial intelligence company specializing in solutions for advertising and media, released data indicating that a majority of online content containing keywords related to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic is actually safe for brand advertising. The findings come from analysis by Verity, the companys machine learning-based content analysis and brand safety engine. Between March 25th and April 6th, Verity identified 2.85 million unique pages containing COVID-related keywords across GumGums publisher network. Of those pages, the systems threat detection models classified 62% as Safe.

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All the concerns raised lately about coronavirus keyword blocking hurting publishers are valid, said GumGum CEO Phil Schraeder. But this data shows that keyword-based brand safety is also failing brands. Its effectively freezing advertisers out of a huge volume of safe trending content, limiting their reach at a time when it should actually be expanding, as more people than ever are consuming online content.

In that one week alone, brands relying on keyword-based systems for brand safety protection missed out on over 1.5 billion impressions across GumGums supply, Mr. Schraeder pointed out, adding that GumGums publisher network offers a representative sample of impressions available across the wider web. Brands would have been blocked from accessing those impressions because the pages on which the impressions appeared contained one or more instance of the words covid, covid19, covid-19, covid 19, coronavirus, corona virus, pandemic, or quarantine.

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Verity deemed them brand safe based on multi-model natural language processing and computer vision analysis, which integrates assessments from eight machine learning models trained to evaluate threat-levels across distinct threat categories. The systems threat sensitivity is adjustable, as is its confidence threshold for validating safety conclusions. The findings released today are based on Veritys nominal safety and confidence settingsconfigured to align with the threat sensitivity of an average Fortune 100 brand.

Even when we apply the most conservative settings, more than half the content is safe, said GumGum CTO, Ken Weiner. Coronavirus is touching every facet of society, so its hardly surprising that even the most innocuous content references it. Keyword blocking just goes way too far, which is why people are calling for whitelisting of specific websites. That mindset shows whats wrong with the way people think about brand safety these days. The idea that you have to choose between reach and safety is false. Our industry needs to wake up to whats technologically available.

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Mr. Weiner noted that GumGums analysis shows that the pages containing COVID-related keywords in certain popular IAB content categories are particularly safe.

Let me put it this way: If youre looking for a quick and easy brand safety solution right now rather than keyword blocking or whitelisting everything Id recommend simply advertising on content categories like technology, pop culture, and video gaming. Youll get plenty of reach and over 80% of their COVID-related content is safe.

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Most dog owners intuitively understand what their pet is saying. They know the difference between a bark for Im hungry and one for Im hurt.

Soon, a device at home will be able to understand them as well.

Furbo, a streaming camera that can dispense treats for your pet, snap photos and send you a notification if your dog is barking, provides a live feed of your home that you can check on a smartphone app.

In the coming months, Furbo is expected to roll out a new feature that allows it to differentiate among kinds of barking and alert owners if a dogs behavior appears abnormal.

Thats sort of why dogs were hired in the first place, to alert you of danger, said Andrew Bleiman, the North America general manager for Tomofun, the company that makes Furbo. So we can tell you not only is your dog barking, but also if your dog is howling or whining or frantically barking, and send you basically a real emergency alert.

The ever-expanding world of pet-oriented technology now allows owners to toss treats, snap a dog selfie and play with the cat all from afar. And the artificial intelligence used in such products is continuing to refine what we know about animal behavior.

Mr. Bleiman said the new version of Furbo was a result of machine learning from the video data of thousands of users. It relied on 10-second clips captured with its technology that users gave feedback on. (Furbo also allows users to opt out of sharing their data.)

The real evolution of the product has been on the computer vision and bioacoustics side, so the intelligence of the software, he said. When you have a camera that stares at a dog all day and listens to dogs all day, the amount of data is just tremendous.

The Furbo team is even able to refine the data by the breed or size of a dog: I can tell you, for example, that on average, at least as much as our camera picks up, a Newfoundland barks four times a day and a Husky barks 36 times a day.

Petcube is another interactive pet camera, the latest iteration of which is equipped with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant.

Yaroslav Azhnyuk, the companys chief executive and co-founder, is confident that A.I. is helping pet owners better understand their animals behavior. The company is working on being able to detect unusual behaviors.

We started applying algorithms to understand pet behavior and understand what they might be trying to say or how they are feeling, he said. We can warn you that OK, your dogs activity is lower than usual, you should maybe check with the vet.

Before the coronavirus pandemic forced many pet owners to work from home during the day, they were comforted by the ability to check on their pet in real time, which had driven demand for all kinds of cameras. Mr. Bleiman said the average Furbo user would check on their pet more than 10 times a day during the workweek.

Petcube users spent about 50 minutes a week talking to their pet through the camera, Mr. Azhnyuk said.

The same way you want to call your mom or child, you want to call your dog or cat, he said. Weve seen people using Petcubes for turtles and for snakes and chickens and pigs, all kinds of animals.

Now that shes working from home as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in New York City, Patty Lynch, 43, has plenty of time to watch her dog, Sadie. When shes away from her Battery Park apartment, she uses a Google Nest to keep an eye on her. Ms. Lynch originally bought the camera three years ago to stream video of Sadie while she recovered from surgery.

I get alerts whenever she moves around, Ms. Lynch said. I also get noise alerts if she starts barking at something. Ill be able to go in and then see her in real time and figure out what shes doing.

Sometimes I just like to check in on her, she said. I just look at her and she makes me smile.

Lionel P. Robert Jr., associate professor at the University of Michigans school of information and a core faculty member at Michigans Robotics Institute, said A.I.-enabled technology has so far centered on the owners need for assurance that their pet was OK while they were away from home.

He predicted that future technology would focus more on the wellness of the pet.

There are a lot of people using these cameras because when they see their pet they feel assured and they feel comfortable. Right now, its less for the pet and more for the humans, he said.

Imagine if all that data was being fed to your veterinarian in real time and theyre sending back data. The idea of well-being for the pet, its weight, how far its walking.

Mr. Robert noted that other parts of the world had gone a step further with technology: Theyre actually adopting robotic pets.

While products like Petcube and Furbo are mostly used by dog owners, there are A.I. devices out there for cats as well. Many people track them throughout the day using interactive cameras, and one start-up has devised an intelligent laser for automated playtime.

Yuri Brigance came up with the idea about four years ago, after his divorce. He was away from the house, working up to 10 hours a day, and was worried about his two cats at home.

This idea came up of using a camera to track animals, where their positions are in the room and moving the laser intelligently instead of randomly so that they have something more real to chase, he said.

The result was Felik, a toy that can be scheduled via an app for certain playtimes and has features such as zone restriction, which designates areas in the home the laser cant go, such as on furniture.

Mr. Brigance said his product did not store video in the cloud and required an internet connection to work, like many video products. It analyzes data in the device.

We use machine-learning models to perform whats called semantic segmentation, which is basically separating the background, the room and all the objects in it, from interesting objects, things that are moving, like cats or humans, Mr. Brigance explained.

The device then determines where the cat has been and what it is currently doing, and predicts what it is about to do next, so it can create a playful game that mirrors chasing live prey.

The laser toy, Mr. Brigance said, has provided his cats, and those of his customers, with hours upon hours of playtime.

Some people are using it almost on a daily basis and theyre recording things like where they used to have a cat that would scratch furniture, that would get really agitated if it had nothing to do, that this actually prevents them from destroying the house, he said.

Or cats that meow in the morning and try to wake up their owners if you set a schedule for this thing to activate in the morning, it can distract the cat and let you sleep a little bit longer.

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Bluecore, the retail marketing technology company that more than 400 retailers rely on to launch highly personalized campaigns at scale, announced that it has been namedGoogle Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Retail, for the second year in a row.

Bluecorewas recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem for giving retailers the ability to launch highly personalized campaigns that result in driving repeat purchase and increase brand loyalty.

This year also marks the deepening of Bluecores relationship with Google Cloud, with the first of a series of joint initiatives between the two companies. In April, Bluecore and Google Cloud will be co-hosting the first DTC Collectivean invite-only conversation among top retail executives, led by Carrie Tharp, VP Retail of Google Cloud,andBluecoreCEO Fayez Mohamood.

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Bluecorespatented technology is designed specifically for retailers and built natively on Google Cloud, whose infrastructure is designed to scale digital performance across enterprise brands with a direct-to-consumer business model. As a result of the partnership, retail marketing organizationsonce reliant on legacy technologies and internal departments to access and action customer dataare able to launch personalized, insights-driven campaigns within minutes.

We appreciate the recognition from Google Cloud as we continue the valuable work were doing together, said Fayez Mohamood, CEO,Bluecore. Our team is pleased to be able to continue to bring our solution to Google Cloud customers and expand our relationship with a series of thought leadership and actionable customer insights for retailers.

Currently in use by more than 400 retailers, including Express, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, TomboyX and Bass Pro Shops,Bluecoreleverages Google Cloud to surface actionable insights at the intersection of 500+ million customer profiles and a combined product catalog of over 150 million products.

Bluecoresmachine learning models then determine each shoppers lifetime value, product affinities, receptivity to discounts, likelihood to convert, and other traits to inform the best next communication. Marketers can act on these insights and create strategies in Bluecores campaign workflow within minutes, creating personalized shopper communications via email or during a shoppers experience on a brands ecommerce sites.

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Were delighted to recognize Bluecore as the 2019 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Retail, said Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud. Retail customers can leverage Bluecores AI- and analytics-driven marketing tools on Google Cloud to better identify customers needs and habits, ultimately helping to connect shoppers with the content and products they want. We look forward to a continued partnership with Bluecore to help retail organizations modernize their data and marketing practices with the cloud.

This announcement follows the recent publication ofBluecores research studywith Forrester Consulting, which highlights the need for retailers to leverage technology that allows them to offer their customers the personalized experience that retailers get from working with Bluecore and Google Cloud.

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COVID-19 will change how the majority of us live and work, at least in the short term. Its also creating a challenge for tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google that ordinarily rely on lots and lots of human labor to moderate content. Are A.I. and machine learning advanced enough to help these firms handle the disruption?

First, its worth noting that, although Facebook has instituted a sweeping work-from-home policy in order to protect its workers (along with Googleand a rising number of other firms), it initially required its contractors who moderate content to continue to come into the office. That situation only changed after protests,according toThe Intercept.

Now, Facebook is paying those contractors while they sit at home, since the nature of their work (scanning peoples posts for content that violates Facebooks terms of service) is extremely privacy-sensitive. Heres Facebooks statement:

For both our full-time employees and contract workforce there is some work that cannot be done from home due to safety, privacy and legal reasons. We have taken precautions to protect our workers by cutting down the number of people in any given office, implementing recommended work from home globally, physically spreading people out at any given office and doing additional cleaning. Given the rapidly evolving public health concerns, we are taking additional steps to protect our teams and will be working with our partners over the course of this week to send all contract workers who perform content review home, until further notice. Well ensure that all workers are paid during this time.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other companies are in the same proverbial boat: Theres an increasing need to police their respective platforms, if only to eliminate fake news about COVID-19, but the workers who handle such tasks cant necessarily do so from home, especially on their personal laptops. The potential solution? Artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine-learning algorithms meant to scan questionable content and make a decision about whether to eliminate it.

HeresGoogles statement on the matter, via its YouTube Creator Blog.

Our Community Guidelines enforcement today is based on a combination of people and technology: Machine learning helps detect potentially harmful content and then sends it to human reviewers for assessment. As a result of the new measures were taking, we will temporarily start relying more on technology to help with some of the work normally done by reviewers. This means automated systems will start removing some content without human review, so we can continue to act quickly to remove violative content and protect our ecosystem, while we have workplace protections in place.

To be fair, the tech industry has been heading in this direction for some time. Relying on armies of human beings to read through every piece of content on the web is expensive, time-consuming, and prone to error. But A.I. and machine learning are still nascent, despite the hype. Google itself, in the aforementioned blog posting, pointed out how its automated systems may flag the wrong videos. Facebook is also receiving criticism that its automated anti-spam system is whacking the wrong posts, including those thatoffer vital information on the spread of COVID-19.

If the COVID-19 crisis drags on, though, more companies will no doubt turn to automation as a potential solution to disruptions in their workflow and other processes. That will force a steep learning curve; again and again, the rollout of A.I. platforms has demonstrated that, while the potential of the technology is there, implementation is often a rough and expensive processjust look at Google Duplex.

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Nonetheless, an aggressive embrace of A.I. will also create more opportunities for those technologists who have mastered A.I. and machine-learning skills of any sort; these folks may find themselves tasked with figuring out how to automate core processes in order to keep businesses running.

Before the virus emerged, BurningGlass (which analyzes millions of job postings from across the U.S.), estimated that jobs that involve A.I. would grow 40.1 percent over the next decade. That percentage could rise even higher if the crisis fundamentally alters how people across the world live and work. (The median salary for these positions is $105,007; for those with a PhD, it drifts up to $112,300.)

If youre trapped at home and have some time to learn a little bit more about A.I., it could be worth your time to explore online learning resources. For instance, theres aGooglecrash coursein machine learning. Hacker Noonalso offers an interesting breakdown ofmachine learningandartificial intelligence.Then theres Bloombergs Foundations of Machine Learning,a free online coursethat teaches advanced concepts such as optimization and kernel methods.

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Starksy Robotics is no more: Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics has shut down after running out of money and failing to raise more funds.

CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher bid a touching farewell to his upstart, founded in 2016, in a Medium post this month. He was upfront and honest about why Starsky failed: Supervised machine learning doesnt live up to the hype, he declared. It isnt actual artificial intelligence akin to C-3PO, its a sophisticated pattern-matching tool.

Neural networks only learn to pick up on certain patterns after they are faced with millions of training examples. But driving is unpredictable, and the same route can differ day to day, depending on the weather or traffic conditions. Trying to model every scenario is not only impossible but expensive.

In fact, the better your model, the harder it is to find robust data sets of novel edge cases. Additionally, the better your model, the more accurate the data you need to improve it, Seltz-Axmacher said.

More time and money is needed to provide increasingly incremental improvements. Over time, only the most well funded startups can afford to stay in the game, he said.

Whenever someone says autonomy is ten years away thats almost certainly what their thought is. There arent many startups that can survive ten years without shipping, which means that almost no current autonomous team will ever ship AI decision makers if this is the case, he warned.

If Seltz-Axmacher is right, then we should start seeing smaller autonomous driving startups shutting down in the near future too. Watch this space.

Waymo to pause testing during Bay Area lockdown: Waymo, Googles self-driving car stablemate, announced it was pausing its operations in California to abide by the lockdown orders in place in Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda. Businesses deemed non-essential were advised to close and residents were told to stay at home, only popping out for things like buying groceries.

It will, however, continue to perform rides for deliveries and trucking services for its riders and partners in Phoenix, Arizona. These drives will be entirely driverless, however, to minimise the chance of spreading COVID-19.

Waymo also launched its Open Dataset Challenge. Developers can take part in a contest that looks for solutions to these problems:

Cash prizes are up for grabs too. The winner can expect to pocket $15,000, second place will get you $5,000, while third is $2,000.

You can find out more details on the rules of the competition and how to enter here. The challenge is open until 31 May.

More free resources to fight COVID-19 with AI: Tech companies are trying to chip in and do what they can to help quell the coronavirus pandemic. Nvidia and Scale AI both offered free resources to help developers using machine learning to further COVID-19 research.

Nvidia is providing a free 90-day license to Parabricks, a software package that speeds up the process of analyzing genome sequences using GPUs. The rush is on to analyze the genetic information of people that have been infected with COVID-19 to find out how the disease spreads and which communities are most at risk. Sequencing genomes requires a lot of number crunching, Parabricks slashes the time needed to complete the task.

Given the unprecedented spread of the pandemic, getting results in hours versus days could have an extraordinary impact on understanding the viruss evolution and the development of vaccines, it said this week.

Interested customers who have access to Nvidias GPUs should fill out a form requesting access to Parabricks.

Nvidia is inviting our family of partners to join us in matching this urgent effort to assist the research community. Were in discussions with cloud service providers and supercomputing centers to provide compute resources and access to Parabricks on their platforms.

Next up is Scale AI, the San Francisco based startup focused on annotating data for machine learning models. It is offering its labeling services for free to any researcher working on a potential vaccine, or on tracking, containing, or diagnosing COVID-19.

Given the scale of the pandemic, researchers should have every tool at their disposal as they try to track and counter this virus, it said in a statement.

Researchers have already shown how new machine learning techniques can help shed new light on this virus. But as with all new diseases, this work is much harder when there is so little existing data to go on.

In those situations, the role of well-annotated data to train models o diagnostic tools is even more critical. If you have a lot of data to analyse and think Scale AI could help then apply for their help here.

PyTorch users, AWS has finally integrated the framework: Amazon has finally integrated PyTorch support into Amazon Elastic Inference, its service that allows users to select the right amount of GPU resources on top of CPUs rented out in its cloud services Amazon SageMaker and Amazon EC2, in order to run inference operations on machine learning models.

Amazon Elastic Inference works like this: instead of paying for expensive GPUs, users select the right amount of GPU-powered inference acceleration on top of cheaper CPUs to zip through the inference process.

In order to use the service, however, users will have to convert their PyTorch code into TorchScript, another framework. You can run your models in any production environment by converting PyTorch models into TorchScript, Amazon said this week. That code is then processed by an API in order to use Amazon Elastic Inference.

The instructions to convert PyTorch models into the right format for the service have been described here.

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COVID-19 will change how most of us live and work, at any rate temporarily. Its additionally making a test for tech organizations, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, that usually depend on parcels and heaps of personal work to direct substance. Are AI furthermore, AI propelled enough to enable these organizations to deal with the interruption?

Its essential that, even though Facebook has initiated a general work-from-home strategy to ensure its laborers (alongside Google and a rising number of different firms), it at first required its contractual workers who moderate substance to keep on coming into the workplace. That circumstance just changed after fights, as per The Intercept.

Presently, Facebook is paying those contractual workers. At the same time, they sit at home since the idea of their work (examining people groups posts for content that damages Facebooks terms of administration) is amazingly security delicate. Heres Facebooks announcement:

For both our full-time representatives and agreement workforce, there is some work that is impossible from home because of wellbeing, security, and legitimate reasons. We have played it safe to secure our laborers by chopping down the number of individuals in some random office, executing prescribed work from home all-inclusive, truly spreading individuals out at some random office, and doing extra cleaning. Given the quickly developing general wellbeing concerns, we are finding a way to ensure our groups. We will be working with our accomplices throughout this week to send all contractors who perform content survey home, until further notification. Well guarantee the payment of all employees during this time.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and different organizations are in the equivalent world-renowned pontoon: Theres an expanding need to politicize their stages, just to take out counterfeit news about COVID-19. Yet the volunteers who handle such assignments cant do as such from home, particularly on their workstations. The potential arrangement? Human-made reasoning (AI) and AI calculations intended to examine the flawed substance and settle on a choice about whether to dispense with it.

Heres Googles announcement on the issue, using its YouTube Creator Blog.

Our Community Guidelines requirement today depends on a blend of individuals and innovation: Machine learning recognizes possibly destructive substance and afterward sends it to human analysts for evaluation. Because of the new estimates were taking, we will incidentally begin depending more on innovation to help with a portion of the work regularly done by commentators. This implies computerized frameworks will begin evacuating some substance without human audit, so we can keep on acting rapidly to expel violative substances and ensure our environment. At the same time, we have a working environment assurances set up.

Also, the tech business has been traveling right now sometime. Depending on the multitudes of individuals to peruse each bit of substance on the web is costly, tedious, and inclined to mistake. Be that as it may, AI, whats more, AI is as yet early, despite the promotion. Google itself, in the previously mentioned blog posting, brought up how its computerized frameworks may hail inappropriate recordings. Facebook is additionally getting analysis that its robotized against spam framework is whacking inappropriate posts, remembering those that offer essential data for the spread of COVID-19.

In the case of the COVID-19 emergency delay, more organizations will not surely turn to machine learning as a potential answer for interruptions in their work process and different procedures. That will drive a precarious expectation to absorb information; over and over, the rollout of AI stages has exhibited that, while the capability of the innovation is there, execution is regularly an unpleasant and costly proceduresimply see Google Duplex.

In any case, a forceful grasp of AI will likewise make more open doors for those technologists who have aced AI, whats more, AI aptitudes of any kind; these people may wind up entrusted with making sense of how to mechanize center procedures to keep organizations running.

Before the infection developed, Burning Glass (which breaks down a great many activity postings from over the US), evaluated that employments that include AI would grow 40.1 percent throughout the following decade. That rate could increase considerably higher if the emergency on a fundamental level changes how individuals over the world live and work. (The average compensation for these positions is $105,007; for those with a Ph.D., it floats up to $112,300.)

With regards to irresistible illnesses, counteraction, surveillance, and fast reaction endeavors can go far toward easing back or slowing down flare-ups. At the point when a pandemic, for example, the ongoing coronavirus episode occurs, it can make enormous difficulties for the administration and general wellbeing authorities to accumulate data rapidly and facilitate a reaction.

In such a circumstance, machine learning can assume an immense job in foreseeing a flare-up and limiting or slowing down its spread.

Human-made intelligence calculations can help mine through news reports and online substances from around the globe, assisting specialists in perceiving oddities even before it arrives at pestilence extents. The crown episode itself is an extraordinary model where specialists applied AI to examine flight voyager information to anticipate where the novel coronavirus could spring up straightaway. A National Geographic report shows how checking the web or online life can help identify the beginning periods.

Practical usage of prescient demonstrating could speak to a significant jump forward in the battle to free the universe of probably the most irresistible maladies. Substantial information examination can enable de-to to concentrate the procedure and empower the convenient investigation of far-reaching informational collections created through the Internet of Things (IoT) and cell phones progressively.

Artificial intelligence and colossal information examination have a significant task to carry out in current genome sequencing techniques. High.

As of late, weve all observed great pictures of medicinal services experts over the globe working vigorously to treat COVID-19 patients, frequently putting their own lives in danger. Computer-based intelligence could assume a critical job in relieving their burden while guaranteeing that the nature of care doesnt endure. For example, the Tampa General Hospital in Florida is utilizing AI to recognize fever in guests with a primary facial output. Human-made intelligence is additionally helping specialists at the Sheba Medical Center.

The job of AI and massive information in treating worldwide pandemics and other social insurance challenges is just set to develop. Hence, it does not shock anyone that interest for experts with AI aptitudes has dramatically increased in recent years. Experts working in social insurance innovations, getting taught on the uses of AI in medicinal services, and building the correct ranges of abilities will end up being critical.

As AI rapidly becomes standard, medicinal services is undoubtedly a territory where it will assume a significant job in keeping us more secure and more advantageous.

The subject of how machine learning can add to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic is being presented to specialists in human-made consciousness (AI) everywhere throughout the world.

Artificial intelligence instruments can help from multiple points of view. They are being utilized to foresee the spread of the coronavirus, map its hereditary advancement as it transmits from human to human, accelerate analysis, and in the improvement of potential medications, while additionally helping policymakers adapt to related issues, for example, the effect on transport, nourishment supplies, and travel.

In any case, in every one of these cases, AI is just potent on the off chance that it has adequate guides. As COVID-19 has brought the world into the unchartered domain, the profound learning frameworks, which PCs use to obtain new capacities, dont have the information they have to deliver helpful yields.

Machine leaning is acceptable at anticipating nonexclusive conduct, yet isnt truly adept at extrapolating that to an emergency circumstance when nearly everything that happens is new, alerts Leo Krkkinen, a teacher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation in Aalto University, Helsinki and an individual with Nokias Bell Labs. On the off chance that individuals respond in new manners, at that point AI cant foresee it. Until you have seen it, you cant gain from it.

Regardless of this clause, Krkkinen says powerful AI-based numerical models are assuming a significant job in helping policymakers see how COVID-19 is spreading and when the pace of diseases is set to top. By drawing on information from the field, for example, the number of passings, AI models can assist with identifying what number of contaminations are uninformed, he includes, alluding to undetected cases that are as yet irresistible. That information would then be able to be utilized to advise the foundation regarding isolate zones and other social removing measures.

It is likewise the situation that AI-based diagnostics that are being applied in related zones can rapidly be repurposed for diagnosing COVID-19 contaminations. Behold.ai, which has a calculation for consequently recognizing both malignant lung growth and fallen lungs from X-beams, provided details regarding Monday that the count can rapidly distinguish chest X-beams from COVID-19 patients as unusual. Right now, triage might accelerate finding and guarantee assets are dispensed appropriately.

The dire need to comprehend what sorts of approach intercessions are powerful against COVID-19 has driven different governments to grant awards to outfit AI rapidly. One beneficiary is David Buckeridge, a teacher in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University in Montreal. Equipped with an award of C$500,000 (323,000), his group is joining ordinary language preparing innovation with AI devices, for example, neural systems (a lot of calculations intended to perceive designs), to break down more than 2,000,000 customary media and internet-based life reports regarding the spread of the coronavirus from everywhere throughout the world. This is unstructured free content traditional techniques cant manage it, Buckeridge said. We need to remove a timetable from online media, that shows whats working where, accurately.

The group at McGill is utilizing a blend of managed and solo AI techniques to distill the key snippets of data from the online media reports. Directed learning includes taking care of a neural system with information that has been commented on, though solo adapting just utilizes crude information. We need a structure for predisposition various media sources have an alternate point of view, and there are distinctive government controls, says Buckeridge. People are acceptable at recognizing that, yet it should be incorporated with the AI models.

The data obtained from the news reports will be joined with other information, for example, COVID-19 case answers, to give policymakers and wellbeing specialists a significantly more complete image of how and why the infection is spreading distinctively in various nations. This is applied research in which we will hope to find significant solutions quick, Buckeridge noted. We ought to have a few consequences of significance to general wellbeing in April.

Simulated intelligence can likewise be utilized to help recognize people who may be accidentally tainted with COVID-19. Chinese tech organization Baidu says its new AI-empowered infrared sensor framework can screen the temperature of individuals in the nearness and rapidly decide if they may have a fever, one of the indications of the coronavirus. In an 11 March article in the MIT Technology Review, Baidu said the innovation is being utilized in Beijings Qinghe Railway Station to recognize travelers who are conceivably contaminated, where it can look at up to 200 individuals in a single moment without upsetting traveler stream. A report given out from the World Health Organization on how China has reacted to the coronavirus says the nation has additionally utilized essential information and AI to reinforce contact following and the administration of need populaces.

Human-made intelligence apparatuses are additionally being sent to all the more likely comprehend the science and science of the coronavirus and prepare for the advancement of viable medicines and an immunization. For instance, fire up Benevolent AI says its man-made intelligence determined information diagram of organized clinical data has empowered the recognizable proof of a potential restorative. In a letter to The Lancet, the organization depicted how its calculations questioned this chart to recognize a gathering of affirmed sedates that could restrain the viral disease of cells. Generous AI inferred that the medication baricitinib, which is endorsed for the treatment of rheumatoid joint inflammation, could be useful in countering COVID-19 diseases, subject to fitting clinical testing.

So also, US biotech Insilico Medicine is utilizing AI calculations to structure new particles that could restrict COVID-19s capacity to duplicate in cells. In a paper distributed in February, the organization says it has exploited late advances in profound figuring out how to expel the need to physically configuration includes and learn nonlinear mappings between sub-atomic structures and their natural and pharmacological properties. An aggregate of 28 AI models created atomic structures and upgraded them with fortification getting the hang of utilizing a scoring framework that mirrored the ideal attributes, the analysts said.

A portion of the worlds best-resourced programming organizations is likewise thinking about this test. DeepMind, the London-based AI pro possessed by Googles parent organization Alphabet, accepts its neural systems that can accelerate the regularly painful procedure of settling the structures of viral proteins. It has created two strategies for preparing neural networks to foresee the properties of a protein from its hereditary arrangement. We would like to add to the logical exertion by discharging structure forecasts of a few under-contemplated proteins related to SARS-CoV-2, the infection that causes COVID-19, the organization said. These can assist scientists with building comprehension of how the infection capacities and be utilized in medicate revelation.

The pandemic has driven endeavor programming organization Salesforce to differentiate into life sciences, in an investigation showing that AI models can gain proficiency with the language of science, similarly as they can do discourse and picture acknowledgment. The thought is that the AI framework will, at that point, have the option to plan proteins, or recognize complex proteins, that have specific properties, which could be utilized to treat COVID-19.

Salesforce took care of the corrosive amino arrangements of proteins and their related metadata into its ProGen AI framework. The framework takes each preparation test and details a game where it attempts to foresee the following amino corrosive in succession.

Before the finish of preparing, ProGen has gotten a specialist at foreseeing the following amino corrosive by playing this game roughly one trillion times, said Ali Madani, an analyst at Salesforce. ProGen would then be able to be utilized practically speaking for protein age by iteratively anticipating the following doubtlessly amino corrosive and producing new proteins it has never observed. Salesforce is presently looking to collaborate with scholars to apply the innovation.

As governments and wellbeing associations scramble to contain the spread of coronavirus, they need all the assistance they with canning get, including from machine learning. Even though present AI innovations are a long way from recreating human knowledge, they are ending up being useful in following the episode, diagnosing patients, sanitizing regions, and accelerating the way toward finding a remedy for COVID-19.

Information science and AI maybe two of the best weapons we have in the battle against the coronavirus episode.

Not long before the turn of the year, BlueDot, a human-made consciousness stage that tracks irresistible illnesses around the globe, hailed a group of bizarre pneumonia cases occurring around a market in Wuhan, China. After nine days, the World Health Organization (WHO) discharged an announcement proclaiming the disclosure of a novel coronavirus in a hospitalized individual with pneumonia in Wuhan.

BlueDot utilizes everyday language preparation and AI calculations to scrutinize data from many hotspots for early indications of irresistible pestilences. The AI takes a gander at articulations from wellbeing associations, business flights, animal wellbeing reports, atmosphere information from satellites, and news reports. With so much information being created on coronavirus consistently, the AI calculations can help home in on the bits that can give appropriate data on the spread of the infection. It can likewise discover significant connections betweens information focuses, for example, the development examples of the individuals who are living in the zones generally influenced by the infection.

The organization additionally utilizes many specialists who have some expertise in the scope of orders, including geographic data frameworks, spatial examination, information perception, PC sciences, just as clinical specialists in irresistible clinical ailments, travel and tropical medication, and general wellbeing. The specialists audit the data that has been hailed by the AI and convey writes about their discoveries.

Joined with the help of human specialists, BlueDots AI can anticipate the beginning of a pandemic, yet additionally, conjecture how it will spread. On account of COVID-19, the AI effectively recognized the urban communities where the infection would be moved to after it surfaced in Wuhan. AI calculations considering make a trip design had the option to foresee where the individuals who had contracted coronavirus were probably going to travel.

Presently, AI calculations can play out the equivalent everywhere scale. An AI framework created by Chinese tech monster Baidu utilizes cameras furnished with PC vision and infrared sensors to foresee individuals temperatures in open territories. The frame can screen up to 200 individuals for every moment and distinguish their temperature inside the scope of 0.5 degrees Celsius. The AI banners any individual who has a temperature above 37.3 degrees. The innovation is currently being used in Beijings Qinghe Railway Station.

Alibaba, another Chinese tech monster, has built up an AI framework that can recognize coronavirus in chest CT filters. As indicated by the analysts who built up the structure, the AI has a 96-percent exactness. The AI was prepared on information from 5,000 coronavirus cases and can play out the test in 20 seconds instead of the 15 minutes it takes a human master to analyze patients. It can likewise differentiate among coronavirus and common viral pneumonia. The calculation can give a lift to the clinical focuses that are as of now under a ton of strain to screen patients for COVID-19 disease. The framework is supposedly being embraced in 100 clinics in China.

A different AI created by specialists from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan EndoAngel Medical Technology Company, and the China University of Geosciences purportedly shows 95-percent precision on distinguishing COVID-19 in chest CT checks. The framework is a profound learning calculation prepared on 45,000 anonymized CT checks. As per a preprint paper distributed on medRxiv, the AIs exhibition is practically identical to master radiologists.

One of the fundamental approaches to forestall the spread of the novel coronavirus is to decrease contact between tainted patients and individuals who have not gotten the infection. To this end, a few organizations and associations have occupied with endeavors to robotize a portion of the methods that recently required wellbeing laborers and clinical staff to cooperate with patients.

Chinese firms are utilizing automatons and robots to perform contactless conveyance and to splash disinfectants in open zones to limit the danger of cross-contamination. Different robots are checking individuals for fever and other COVID-19 manifestations and administering free hand sanitizer foam and gel.

Inside emergency clinics, robots are conveying nourishment and medication to patients and purifying their rooms to hinder the requirement for the nearness of attendants. Different robots are caught up with cooking rice without human supervision, decreasing the quantity of staff required to run the office.

In Seattle, specialists utilized a robot to speak with and treat patients remotely to limit the introduction of clinical staff to contaminated individuals.

By the days end, the war on the novel coronavirus isnt over until we build up an immunization that can vaccinate everybody against the infection. Be that as it may, growing new medications and medication is an exceptionally protracted and expensive procedure. It can cost more than a billion dollars and take as long as 12 years. That is the sort of period we dont have as the infection keeps on spreading at a quickening pace.

Luckily, AI can assist speed with increasing the procedure. DeepMind, the AI investigate lab procured by Google in 2014, as of late announced that it has utilized profound figuring out how to discover new data about the structure of proteins related to COVID-19. This is a procedure that could have taken a lot more months.

Understanding protein structures can give significant insights into the coronavirus immunization recipe. DeepMind is one of a few associations that are occupied with the race to open the coronavirus immunization. It has utilized the consequence of many years of AI progress, just as research on protein collapsing.

Its imperative to take note of that our structure forecast framework is still being developed, and we cant be sure of the precision of the structures we are giving, even though we are sure that the framework is more exact than our prior CASP13 framework, DeepMinds scientists composed on the AI labs site. We affirmed that our framework gave an exact forecast to the tentatively decided SARS-CoV-2 spike protein structure partook in the Protein Data Bank, and this gave us the certainty that our model expectations on different proteins might be valuable.

Even though it might be too soon to tell whether were going the correct way, the endeavors are excellent. Consistently spared in finding the coronavirus antibody can save hundredsor thousandsof lives.

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A new reinforcement-learning algorithm has learned to optimize the placement of components on a computer chip to make it more efficient and less power-hungry.

3D Tetris: Chip placement, also known as chip floor planning, is a complex three-dimensional design problem. It requires the careful configuration of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of components across multiple layers in a constrained area. Traditionally, engineers will manually design configurations that minimize the amount of wire used between components as a proxy for efficiency. They then use electronic design automation software to simulate and verify their performance, which can take up to 30 hours for a single floor plan.

Time lag: Because of the time investment put into each chip design, chips are traditionally supposed to last between two and five years. But as machine-learning algorithms have rapidly advanced, the need for new chip architectures has also accelerated. In recent years, several algorithms for optimizing chip floor planning have sought to speed up the design process, but theyve been limited in their ability to optimize across multiple goals, including the chips power draw, computational performance, and area.

Intelligent design: In response to these challenges, Google researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini took a new approach: reinforcement learning. Reinforcement-learning algorithms use positive and negative feedback to learn complicated tasks. So the researchers designed whats known as a reward function to punish and reward the algorithm according to the performance of its designs. The algorithm then produced tens to hundreds of thousands of new designs, each within a fraction of a second, and evaluated them using the reward function. Over time, it converged on a final strategy for placing chip components in an optimal way.

Validation: After checking the designs with the electronic design automation software, the researchers found that many of the algorithms floor plans performed better than those designed by human engineers. It also taught its human counterparts some new tricks, the researchers said.

Production line: Throughout the field's history, progress in AI has been tightly interlinked with progress in chip design. The hope is this algorithm will speed up the chip design process and lead to a new generation of improved architectures, in turn accelerating AI advancement.

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