Mahima Pushkarna is making data easier to understand

Favorite Five years ago, information designer Mahima Pushkarna joined Google to make data easier to understand. As a senior interaction designer on the People + AI Research (PAIR) team, she designed Data Cards to help everyone better understand the contexts of the data they are using. The Data Cards Playbook

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 30, 2022

Reducing gender-based harms in AI with Sunipa Dev

Favorite Natural language processing (NLP) is a form of artificial intelligence that teaches computer programs how to take in, interpret, and produce language from large data sets. For example, grammar checkers use NLP to come up with grammar suggestions that help people write grammatically correct phrases. But as Google’s AI

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 29, 2022

Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments

Favorite Posted by Jarrod McClean, Staff Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI, and Hsin-Yuan Huang, Graduate Student, Caltech In efforts to learn about the quantum world, scientists face a big obstacle: their classical experience of the world. Whenever a quantum system is measured, the act of this measurement destroys the “quantumness”

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 22, 2022

How AI creates photorealistic images from text

Favorite Have you ever seen a puppy in a nest emerging from a cracked egg? What about a photo that’s overlooking a steampunk city with airships? Or a picture of two robots having a romantic evening at the movies? These might sound far-fetched, but a novel type of machine learning

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 22, 2022

Google at CVPR 2022

Favorite Posted by Shaina Mehta and Kristen Borg, Program Managers This week marks the beginning of the premier annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR 2022), held both in-person in New Orleans, LA and virtually. As a leader in computer vision research and a Platinum Sponsor, Google will have a strong

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 21, 2022

End-to-end Generative Pre-training for Multimodal Video Captioning

Favorite Posted by Paul Hongsuck Seo and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientists, Google Research, Perception Team Multimodal video captioning systems utilize both the video frames and speech to generate natural language descriptions (captions) of videos. Such systems are stepping stones towards the longstanding goal of building multimodal conversational systems that effortlessly

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Shared by Google AI Technology June 7, 2022