Originally published in Protocol, Jan 13, 2022. Companies shouldn’t treat AI tools like regular software, according to eBay’s chief AI officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov. They require special monitoring and permissions. Ebay’s Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov has big plans for helping the ecommerce mainstay evolve into what he calls an AI-first company. The December launch of eBay’s proprietary AI-based
Originally published in MIT Technology Review, Dec 12, 2022. My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors. When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was...
Originally published in Pinterest Engineering Blog, Nov 4, 2022. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how we improved Pinterest Homefeed engagement volume from a machine learning model design perspective — by leveraging realtime user action features...
Originally published in The Airbnb Tech Blog, Nov 21, 2022. 25 Years of Online Travel Search Online travel search hasn’t changed much in the last 25 years. The traveler enters her destination, dates, and the number...
Originally published in Netflix Technology Blog, Nov 14, 2022. When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we...
Originally published in Berkeley News, Nov 22, 2022. Many traffic jams are caused by human behavior: a slight tap on the brakes can ripple through a line of cars, triggering a slowdown — or complete gridlock —...
Originally published in MIT News, Nov 23, 2022. New system can teach a group of cooperative or competitive AI agents to find an optimal long-term solution. Picture two teams squaring off on a football field. The players...
Originally published in Capital One Tech Blog, Oct 23, 2022. ML is beginning to drive business impact, with automated anomaly detection as the top priority in the next one year to three years. Machine learning (ML) applications...
Originally published in Fortune, Oct 24, 2022. Inside a humid warehouse in suburban Indianapolis, a company called Atarraya is using large metal containers and the latest technology to grow shrimp hundreds of miles from the ocean....
Originally published in Innovation Endeavors, Nov 1, 2022. Applied large language model startups have exploded in the past year. Enormous advances in underlying language modeling technology, coupled with the early success of products like Github CoPilot, have...