Facebook ran a mood experiment on 689,003 users without telling them
A 2014 study altered the News Feeds of 689,003 Facebook users to test whether emotions spread, drawing an ethics backlash.
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UPS said its ORION route-optimization system would cut 100 million driving miles a year
UPS said its ORION route-optimization software would cut 100 million miles and 10 million gallons of fuel a year when fully deployed.
Georgia Tech students could not tell their AI teaching assistant was a bot
In 2016 Georgia Tech students mistook an IBM Watson-based teaching assistant, Jill Watson, for a human throughout the semester.
AlphaGo's Move 37 had a 1-in-10,000 chance of being played
DeepMind describes AlphaGo's Move 37 in game two against Lee Sedol as having had a 1 in 10,000 chance of being used by a human player.
Lee Sedol's Move 78 against AlphaGo was nicknamed 'God's Touch'
In game four against AlphaGo, Lee Sedol played Move 78 - DeepMind says a 1-in-10,000 move - winning the only game the machine lost in the 2016 match.
Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first DGX-1 to OpenAI in 2016
NVIDIA's CEO personally hand-delivered the first DGX-1 deep learning supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, a moment NVIDIA frames as igniting the AI revolution.
The COMPAS recidivism tool scores defendants from a 137-question survey
COMPAS produces its criminal-risk scores from a 137-question survey and does not ask defendants about race directly.
Google's neural translation cut errors by up to 85 percent
Switching Google Translate to the neural GNMT system reduced translation errors by 55 to 85 percent on several major language pairs.
Mastercard called Decision Intelligence its first global-scale use of AI on the network
Mastercard said its 2016 Decision Intelligence service was the first use of AI at global scale directly on its payment network.
IEEE named Amazon's recommendation paper the best of its 20 years
In 2017 IEEE Internet Computing named Amazon's 2003 item-to-item paper the one that best withstood the test of time.
NFL RFID tags report position 10 times a second
NFL Next Gen Stats RFID tags in players' shoulder pads report position about 10 times per second.
Stanford's skin-cancer model trained on 129,450 images
The 2017 Stanford skin-cancer network trained on 129,450 clinical images of 2,032 diseases, a dataset two orders of magnitude larger than prior efforts.
The Transformer paper was submitted to arXiv on June 12, 2017
'Attention Is All You Need', which introduced the Transformer, was submitted to arXiv on June 12, 2017.
China's 2017 AI plan set a 2030 world-leadership goal
China's 2017 New Generation AI Development Plan set a three-step goal to make China a major global AI innovation center by 2030.
The Asilomar AI Principles number exactly 23
The 2017 Asilomar AI Principles consist of 23 guidelines, grouped into research issues, ethics and values, and longer-term issues.
Face ID maps your face with more than 30,000 infrared dots
Apple's Face ID projects over 30,000 invisible infrared dots and matches the face on an on-device neural engine, not in the cloud.
AlphaGo Zero beat the version that defeated Lee Sedol by 100 games to nil
Starting from random play with no human game data, AlphaGo Zero taught itself Go and within three days beat the version that defeated Lee Sedol, 100 games to 0.
Amazon's Just Walk Out combines cameras, weight sensors and GAN-made training data
Amazon's Just Walk Out fuses ceiling cameras and shelf weight sensors, trained partly on synthetic data made with GANs.
S&P Global paid about $550 million for AI firm Kensho
S&P Global agreed to buy AI analytics company Kensho for roughly $550 million in 2018, a landmark AI acquisition in finance.
The iNaturalist 2018 dataset held 859,000 photos of 5,000+ species
The iNaturalist 2018 dataset gathered 859,000 citizen-science photos of over 5,000 species, yet top models reached only 67% accuracy.
ACLU's test falsely matched 28 members of Congress to mugshots
In a 2018 ACLU test, Amazon's Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress to arrest mugshots, disproportionately people of color.
AlphaFold won its first CASP contest in 2018
DeepMind's first AlphaFold placed first at the CASP13 protein-folding contest in 2018, two years before the CASP14 breakthrough.
Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot reached over 660 million users
By 2018 Microsoft's social chatbot XiaoIce had communicated with over 660 million active users and averaged 23 conversation turns per session.
NeurIPS adopted a Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist
Joelle Pineau's Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist asks authors to document architecture, hyperparameters, and code, and was adopted by NeurIPS.
OpenAI LP capped first-round returns at 100x
OpenAI March 2019 capped-profit announcement said first-round investor returns were capped at 100x their investment, with any excess owned by the nonprofit.
A neural architecture search was estimated at 626,155 lbs of CO2
Strubell and colleagues estimated a full transformer architecture search emitted about 626,155 lbs of CO2, roughly five lifetimes of a car including fuel.
Microsoft invested 1 billion dollars in OpenAI in 2019
On July 22, 2019, Microsoft announced a 1 billion dollar investment in OpenAI alongside an exclusive Azure computing partnership.
The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine packs 1.2 trillion transistors on one chip
Cerebras built its first Wafer-Scale Engine from a single silicon wafer holding 1.2 trillion transistors and 400,000 cores - the largest chip ever made.
GPT-2 was called too risky to release, then fully released in nine months
OpenAI withheld the full GPT-2 in February 2019 citing misuse concerns, then released the complete 1.5-billion-parameter model in November 2019.
A 2019 NIST study found face recognition error rates vary by race and sex
NIST's 2019 FRVT study found most face recognition algorithms had higher false-positive rates for some demographic groups than others.
Frontier model training compute has grown about 5x per year since 2020
Epoch AI finds training compute for frontier AI models has grown roughly 5x per year, doubling every 5.2 months, since 2020.
Boston Dynamics put Spot on sale to businesses in 2020
Boston Dynamics began commercial sales of its Spot robot on June 16, 2020, after more than 150 units had been leased to early adopters.
EleutherAI began as a Discord server in July 2020
EleutherAI describes itself as having grown from a Discord server for discussing GPT-3 into a leading non-profit research institute, founded in July 2020.
MLB Statcast uses 12 Hawk-Eye cameras per park
MLB's Statcast fits each of its 30 ballparks with 12 Hawk-Eye cameras tracking the ball and players.
C3.ai trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol AI
Enterprise software maker C3.ai listed on the NYSE in December 2020 under the two-letter ticker AI, priced at $42 a share.
MuZero mastered Go, chess, shogi, and Atari without ever being told the rules
MuZero matched AlphaZero's superhuman play at Go, chess, and shogi and reached top Atari results without being told the rules, learning a model to plan with.
PlantVillage Nuru diagnoses cassava disease offline on a phone
PlantVillage Nuru, an offline phone app, identified cassava mosaic disease at 93% accuracy, beating untrained extension officers and farmers.
Epic's sepsis model missed two-thirds of cases in a validation study
A 2021 JAMA study of Epic's sepsis model found it missed 1,709 of 2,552 sepsis cases and scored an AUC of just 0.63 at one health system.
NASA's Perseverance rover 'thinks while driving' on Mars
Perseverance's AutoNav lets it map terrain and plan around hazards while moving, reaching 120 meters per hour versus Curiosity's 20.
Zone7's AI flagged 72% of injuries in advance
In a validation study Zone7's AI flagged elevated risk before 72.4% of 423 injuries across 11 pro teams.
John Deere's autonomous tractor classifies each camera pixel in about 100 milliseconds
Deere's autonomous tractor runs camera images through a neural network that classifies each pixel in about 100 milliseconds.
Meta said OPT-175B took one-seventh of GPT-3's carbon to develop
Meta reported that OPT-175B matched GPT-3's scale while requiring only about one-seventh the carbon footprint to develop.
Clearview AI is permanently banned from selling faceprints to most companies
A 2022 ACLU settlement permanently barred Clearview AI, nationwide, from selling its faceprint database to most private businesses.
FIFA offside tech tracks 29 points per player
FIFA's 2022 World Cup offside system tracked up to 29 points on each player 50 times per second.
Meta's NLLB-200 improved translation quality 44% over prior systems
Meta reported its NLLB-200 model improved translation quality by an average of 44% on BLEU over the previous state of the art.
The AlphaFold database holds over 200 million protein structures
After its 2021 launch, the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database grew to over 200 million predicted structures, near-complete coverage of catalogued proteins.
The term 'prompt injection' was coined by Simon Willison in September 2022
Developer Simon Willison coined 'prompt injection' on September 12, 2022, by analogy to SQL injection; it now ranks LLM01 in the OWASP LLM Top 10.
AlphaTensor beat Strassen's matrix algorithm after 50 years
DeepMind's AlphaTensor improved on Strassen's two-level matrix multiplication in a finite field for the first time in 50 years.