T-Mobile US, Inc. offers a Voicemail to Text service that converts voicemails to text using Amazon Transcribe. They have now launched the Voicemail to Text Translate feature, powered by Amazon Translate, which allows customers to request voicemail transcriptions in their preferred language. This feature is available on major Android devices. The use of the Voicemail…

Researchers from the University of Chicago have developed a tool called Nightshade, which can “poison” AI models that use images without consent. It embeds invisible pixels into an image, corrupting the classification of the image and affecting broader concepts. The tool could make AI companies more cautious about using images without permission but also highlights…

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin explored how retrieval augmentation affects the generation of answers for long-form question answering (LFQA) systems. They conducted experiments and found that retrieval enhancement significantly alters the creation of language models (LMs). The quality of attribution in LMs can vary widely, even when given the same set of…

LIBERO is a lifelong learning benchmark in robot manipulation that focuses on knowledge transfer in declarative and procedural domains. It introduces five key research areas in lifelong learning for decision-making (LLDM) and offers a procedural task generation pipeline with 130 tasks. Experiments reveal the superiority of sequential fine-tuning over existing LLDM methods. The benchmark includes…

OpenAI’s GPT-4 has impressive image processing abilities, but this new capability also opens the model up to attacks. While ChatGPT has guardrails to prevent malicious text prompts, it becomes more susceptible to complying with malicious commands hidden in images. OpenAI has implemented mitigations for adversarial images containing overlaid text, but these efforts may not fully…

Nightshade, a new tool developed by a computer science lab at the University of Chicago, may shift the power dynamics between artists and technology companies. By applying Nightshade to their work, artists can trick machine-learning models into malfunctioning by introducing “poisoned pixels.” This tool could help artists protect their work from being scraped by tech…

This article discusses a new method for automating Roman Numeral Analysis using Graph Neural Networks. The model, called ChordGNN, leverages note-wise information to make onset-wise predictions of Roman Numerals in a musical score. The article highlights the architecture of the ChordGNN model and provides examples of its predictions, comparing them with human annotations. The ability…

VideoCrafter is an open-source video creation and editing suite that uses diffusion models, a machine learning model, to generate photo- and video-realistic outputs from text descriptions. It has not yet been released but has the potential to significantly change the production process by allowing even those with no experience in video editing to create professional-quality…

This article discusses automation in data science, particularly in the area of exploratory data analysis (EDA). The author emphasizes the importance of automating repetitive EDA tasks and demonstrates the creation of a utility to automate these tasks. The utility includes features such as summary statistics, statistical tests, correlation heatmap, category averages, and data distribution visualizations.…