Deep Learning

MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory

Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching

Edge + IoT05 Oct 2022 | 6

Intel, Accenture put bow on open-source AI kits to push adoption

Think ML is hard to implement? That excuse is getting harder to make as you avoid the rush

Systems12 Jul 2022 | 1

DeepMind AI reacts to the physically impossible like a human infant

Adding assumptions about objects better than learning from scratch, claims researcher

Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 6

Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality

Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think?

AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 1

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness

AI + ML13 Jun 2022 | 193

Photonic processor can classify millions of images faster than you can blink

We ask again: Has science gone too far?

Science08 Jun 2022 | 50

IBM AI boat to commemorate historic US Mayflower voyage finally lands… in Canada

Nearly two years late and in the wrong country, we welcome our robot overlords

AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 31

Neuromorphic chips 'up to 16 times more energy efficient' for deep learning

Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done

AI + ML24 May 2022 | 6

d-Matrix gets $44m in quest for efficient AI server chiplets

d-ream team or a d-isaster? Let's see what Microsoft's money can do

AI + ML26 Apr 2022 |

AI hardware, PC gaming rig maker partner on powerful AI/ML laptop

Lambda, Razer take on Apple with Tensorbook for ML engineers

Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 3

What does Go-written malware look like? Here's a sample under the microscope

Arid Gopher sticks its head out from its burrow

Security22 Mar 2022 | 6

Googlers and co offer video dataset-generating Kubric

How your computer-vision model learned to stop worrying and love the Python

AI + ML15 Mar 2022 | 1

Cerebras brings wafer-size AI chips to medical data analysis

CEO tells El Reg why biomedical firms dig big dies

AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 1

Techniques to fool AI with hidden triggers are outpacing defenses – study

Here's how to catch up with those poisoning machine-learning systems

AI + ML25 Feb 2022 | 8

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective

Science08 Jul 2020 | 28

Why build your own cancer-sniffing neural network when this 1.3 exaflop supercomputer can do if for you?

Small problem – you need 9,216 CPUs and 27,648 GPUs

AI + ML01 Oct 2019 | 8

Q. If machine learning is so smart, how come AI models are such racist, sexist homophobes? A. Humans really suck

Updated Our prejudices rub off on our computer pals, sadly

AI + ML05 Sep 2019 | 64

YouTube's radicalizing Alt-right trolls and Facebook's recruiting new language boffins

Roundup It's all the AI news you might have missed

AI + ML02 Sep 2019 | 78

YouTube algorithms mistake sparring robots for animal cruelty, gamers snooped on via Xbox AI, and more

Roundup Including another, larger GPT-2 reveal

AI + ML26 Aug 2019 | 11

Can Amazon's AI really detect fear? Plus: Fresh deepfake video freaks everyone out again

Roundup Nvidia is pleased with its latest numbers, and more

AI + ML19 Aug 2019 | 31

Ohio state's top legal eagle just made it harder for the FBI, ICE, cops to snoop around its DMV DB for people's faces

Reminder: They're not allowed to do that without permission

Science15 Aug 2019 | 12

It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors

Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech

AI + ML14 Aug 2019 | 27

Phuck off, phishers! JPMorgan Chase crafts AI to sniff out malware menacing staff networks

Machine-learning code predicts whether connections are legit or likely to result in a bad day for someone

AI + ML24 Jul 2019 | 18

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Even so, human nerds are left in the dust and this neural net can be used for other tricks

AI + ML16 Jul 2019 | 30

Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing

Researchers show limited success in getting rid of data

AI + ML15 Jul 2019 | 69

Facebook outage a peep at platform's ML tagging conventions, Baidu links up with Intel and Huawei on AI chips, and more

Roundup Animal-AI Olympics worth a few $$$ if you fancy it

AI + ML05 Jul 2019 | 8

DeepNude deep-nuked: AI photo app stripped clothes from women to render them naked. Now, it's stripped from web

Our 'X-ray specs' software can be misused? And everyone wants it? Oh no, who'd have thought, say creators

AI + ML27 Jun 2019 | 137

Yay, for AI: Autonomous pizza-delivery robots. Nay for AI: Big Brother is real and it's powered by neural networks

Roundup Also Waymo is releasing a data set for you self-driving car nerds

AI + ML22 Jun 2019 | 14

'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope

Analysis People will share anything scandalous, duh – El Reg might well be Exhibit A

AI + ML13 Jun 2019 | 111

Silicon Valley doesn't care about poor people: Top AI models kinda suck at ID'ing household stuff in hard-up nations

If it's not a 50in TV or a huge fridge of soylent, we don't want to know

AI + ML12 Jun 2019 | 36

These boffins' deepfake AI vids are next-gen. But don't take our word for it. Why not ask Zuck or Kim Kardashian...

Video 'Text editing' system for speeches to change meanings emerges along with CEO-goading art attack

AI + ML12 Jun 2019 | 69

Amazon teases package drone, US civil rights folk want facial recog tech ban and AI carumba – YouTube!

Roundup Your rapid-fire guide to machine-learning bits and bytes

AI + ML10 Jun 2019 | 16

AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it. We're not sure we're happy with this reality

Video Warning: It's creepy AF – and your pic is next

AI + ML23 May 2019 | 78

Ahem, ahem... AI engine said to be good as human docs at spotting lung cancer developing

New convolutional neural network did just as well as radiologists in clinical settings

AI + ML21 May 2019 | 23

Google's cunning AI linguist, Uncle Sam drills ML skills into .mil, Intel's iffy CPU claims

Roundup Plus: AI-generated whisky – I'm sorry Dave, I can't drink that

AI + ML20 May 2019 | 13

If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb, it may not be his fault – an AI has cloned his voice

Video And how it could be you being impersonated next

AI + ML17 May 2019 | 13

Clarifai job cuts, Lyft and Waymo love-in and OpenAI's scary GPT-2 goes live – well, sort of

Roundup Bits and bobs from the week's AI news

AI + ML11 May 2019 | 3

Fellow AI nerds, beware: Google Cloud glitch leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs off estimated bills for some virtual machines

Wow, cool, they look free to use... *checks invoice the next day* ...They most certainly were not free

AI + ML11 May 2019 | 8

Pssst.... build your own machine learning computer, it's cheaper and even faster than using GPUs on cloud

Nvidia's fancy Volta V100 chips not always worth it

AI + ML30 Apr 2019 | 11

Uncle Sam wants to tackle bias in algorithms by ordering tech corps to explain how their machines really work

New bill grants the FTC powers to investigate companies

AI + ML10 Apr 2019 | 36

Amazon woes and wins, IBM thinks it's solved employee happiness and Duplex phony phone calls everywhere!

Roundup Meanwhile, Apple is drinking Google's AI milkshake

AI + ML07 Apr 2019 | 46

Not so fast AI Doctor, the FDA would like to check how good you really are at healthcare

I see you're using adaptive algorithms. Step this way for some regulation please

AI + ML03 Apr 2019 | 8

Dodgy US government facial data grab, self-nannying cars, and a chance for non-techies to learn about AI

Roundup The week's news in AI and machine learning

AI + ML25 Mar 2019 | 11

The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can't tell if you're straight or not just from your face

What are these pesky neural networks really looking at?

AI + ML05 Mar 2019 | 43

This image-recognition neural net can be trained from 1.2 million pictures in the time it takes to make a cup o' tea

Just 90 seconds, it's claimed, provided a) you have 512 Nvidia V100 GPUs and b) er, no need for accuracy

AI + ML26 Feb 2019 | 31

Can you tell real faces from fake AI-created ones? It's tough! Plus: Facebook's chief AI scientist talks hardware

Roundup Also, DeepMind published new code to help train agents play football

AI + ML25 Feb 2019 | 23

What's the frequency, KeNNeth? Neural nets trained to tune in on radar signals to boost future mobe broadband

It's time we rise up against these AI overlords and overthrow their useful technologies

AI + ML22 Feb 2019 | 14

Fool ML once, shame on you. Fool ML twice, shame on... the AI dev? If you can hoodwink one model, you may be able to trick many more

Some tips on how to avoid miscreants deceiving your code

AI + ML21 Feb 2019 | 12

Want to create fake web profile pics? This creepy AI tool makes them on demand. Plus predictive policing, and more

Roundup Don't panic, we're not all doomed – well, except Nvidia, perhaps

AI + ML18 Feb 2019 | 30

Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

Analysis 'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes

AI + ML14 Feb 2019 | 46

Object-recognition AI – the dumb program's idea of a smart program: How neural nets are really just looking at textures

Analysis Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Don't ask these models

AI + ML13 Feb 2019 | 44

AI gets carded, China and US agree on robot wars, Amazon claims Rekognition is just fine

Roundup And more from the world of machine learning

AI + ML11 Feb 2019 | 6

Say what?! An AI system can decode brain signals into speech

So far, it's just sounds you hear – it can't read your mind or anything... yet

AI + ML30 Jan 2019 | 31

Amazon's titchy robots hit the streets, Waymo starts a self-driving car factory...

Roundup ...while Apple cuts 200 jobs from its car project, and more from the AI world

AI + ML27 Jan 2019 | 31

Dear humans, We thought it was time we looked through YOUR source code. We found a mystery ancestor. Signed, the computers

Well, computers programmed by AI-wielding bio-boffins

AI + ML20 Jan 2019 | 129

Why, you're no better than an 8-bit hustler: IBM punts paper on time-saving DNN-training trick

Data centre, edge computing: yep – business applications

AI + ML03 Dec 2018 | 9