Universal Analytics, a platform beloved (or at least tolerated) by marketers, died today (July 1) after 11 years. Although the digital marketing industry had been warned that Google was preparing to turn off its life support, the news has still somehow come as a shock to many. Heartbroken marketers across the world have been flooding…
MIT Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) recently celebrated the second annual Day of AI with two flagship local events. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate in Boston hosted a human rights and data policy-focused event that was streamed worldwide. Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury, Massachusetts, hosted a student workshop…
At the newish Google Pier 57 office in New York City, Google popped up this stand to promote the new mapping features. It looks like a map your summer booth that showcases some of the new AI features Google announced around travel. Most of these featured were announced at Google I/O and I covered most….
When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, he noticed his wife, then a medical student, spending hours studying on apps that offered flash cards and quizzes. His research had shown that, as a group, medical students could classify skin lesions more accurately than professional dermatologists; the…
Google Ads announced that new brand settings are rolling out for Search and Performance Max campaigns. Specifically, brand restrictions for broad match in Search campaigns and brand exclusions in Performance Max campaigns are rolling out. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said on Twitter, We’re rolling out 2 new brand controls in Search and in…
A group of researchers from the University of Washington, Stanford, AI2, UCSB, and Google recently developed the OpenFlamingo project, which aims to build models similar to those DeepMind’s Flamingo team. OpenFlamingo models can handle any mixed text and image sequences and produce text as an output. Captioning, visual question answering, and image classification are just…
In May, Bing added a share feature to Bing Chat and then abruptly removed the feature in early June. Bing’s Mikhail Parakhin said that the feature should start to slowly roll back out, under a new system, starting on July 4th. Mikhail Parakhin said on Twitter that the share feature is coming back, he said,…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language understanding in recent years, demonstrating remarkable aptitudes in semantic comprehension, query resolution, and text production, particularly in zero-shot and few-shot environments. As seen in Fig. 1(a), several methods have been put forth for using LLMs on tasks involving vision. An optical encoder may be trained to represent…
Google Ads has been showing larger images on and off for a while now. But here is an ad for a law firm that has really large images on the desktop search interface. This was spotted by Anthony Higman, who posted this example on Twitter – I should note that I cannot replicate this: To…
Computers possess two remarkable capabilities with respect to images: They can both identify them and generate them anew. Historically, these functions have stood separate, akin to the disparate acts of a chef who is good at creating dishes (generation), and a connoisseur who is good at tasting dishes (recognition). Yet, one can’t help but wonder:…
