Hey, in this issue: machine learning: the great stagnation, AI researchers rank the top AI labs worldwide, detecting hate speech in multimodal memes, how to talk when a machine is listening, AIs still don’t really understand language, Julia adoption keeps climbing; is it a Python challenger?, and more.

• Machine learning: the great stagnation

• ToTTo: a controlled table-to-text generation dataset

• Artificial intelligence researchers rank the top AI labs worldwide

• The Hateful Memes Challenge: detecting hate speech in multimodal memes

• How to talk when a machine is listening: corporate disclosure in the age of AI

• Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

• The latest advances and insights for neural network model compression with quantization

• Fit more and train faster with ZeRO via DeepSpeed and FairScale

• Julia adoption keeps climbing; is it a Python challenger?

• We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

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Have a nice weekend! See you next week. — Andriy