This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of "Artificial Intelligence Failures." Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that ...

UBS wealth management is using NLP to speed up the process of due diligence. The company’s innovation group developed an AI-armed investment platform which detects negative news by reading vast ...

Introduction Tree boosting has empirically proven to be efficient for predictive mining for both classification and regression. For many years, MART (multiple additive regression trees) has been the ...

Recent advancements in training large multimodal models have been driven by efforts to eliminate modeling constraints and unify architectures across domains. Despite these strides, many existing ...

Just hours after making waves and triggering a backlash on social media, Genderify — an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has ...

There was a nineteenth-century saying that mocked the use of “a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.” Google AI researcher Tal Schuster echoes this concept in introducing the new paper Confident Adaptive ...

The Transformer architecture, introduced by Vaswani et al. in 2017, serves as the backbone of contemporary language models. Over the years, numerous modifications to this architecture have been ...