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Fake Newscasters: Indian and Southeast Asian broadcasters embrace AI news presenters.
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Fake Newscasters: Indian and Southeast Asian broadcasters embrace AI news presenters.

Tonight at 11: I’m an AI-generated character, and I’ll be bringing you the latest headlines. Indian broadcasters have embraced synthetic news presenters, Nikkei Asia reported. Their counterparts in other Asian countries also rely increasingly on automated anchors.

September 6, 20232 min read
Fake Newscasters: Indian and Southeast Asian broadcasters embrace AI news presenters.
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Fake Newscasters: Indian and Southeast Asian broadcasters embrace AI news presenters.

Tonight at 11: I’m an AI-generated character, and I’ll be bringing you the latest headlines. Indian broadcasters have embraced synthetic news presenters, Nikkei Asia reported. Their counterparts in other Asian countries also rely increasingly on automated anchors.

September 6, 20232 min read
Sample-Efficient Training for Robots: Reinforcement learning from human feedback to train robots
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Sample-Efficient Training for Robots: Reinforcement learning from human feedback to train robots

Training an agent that controls a robot arm to perform a task — say, opening a door — that involves a sequence of motions (reach, grasp, turn, pull, release) can take from tens of thousands to millions of examples...

July 12, 20233 min read
Sample-Efficient Training for Robots: Reinforcement learning from human feedback to train robots
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Sample-Efficient Training for Robots: Reinforcement learning from human feedback to train robots

Training an agent that controls a robot arm to perform a task — say, opening a door — that involves a sequence of motions (reach, grasp, turn, pull, release) can take from tens of thousands to millions of examples...

July 12, 20233 min read
Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy
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Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy

One challenge to making online education available worldwide is evaluating an immense volume of student work. Especially difficult is evaluating interactive computer programming assignments such as coding a game.

July 5, 20233 min read
Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy
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Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy

One challenge to making online education available worldwide is evaluating an immense volume of student work. Especially difficult is evaluating interactive computer programming assignments such as coding a game.

July 5, 20233 min read
Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Architect’s Sketchbook: How a top architecture firm is using generative AI
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Architect’s Sketchbook: How a top architecture firm is using generative AI

Text-to-image generators are visualizing the next wave of architectural innovation. Patrick Schumacher, principal architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, explained how the company uses generative AI to come up with ideas. He made the remarks at an industry roundtable called AI and the Future of Design.

May 24, 20231 min read
Architect’s Sketchbook: How a top architecture firm is using generative AI
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Architect’s Sketchbook: How a top architecture firm is using generative AI

Text-to-image generators are visualizing the next wave of architectural innovation. Patrick Schumacher, principal architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, explained how the company uses generative AI to come up with ideas. He made the remarks at an industry roundtable called AI and the Future of Design.

May 24, 20231 min read
Automated Into a Job: Workers are using ChatGPT to hold multiple full-time jobs.
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Automated Into a Job: Workers are using ChatGPT to hold multiple full-time jobs.

ChatGPT is helping some workers secretly hold multiple full-time jobs at once. Workers are using OpenAI’s chatbot to boost their productivity so they can earn separate paychecks from a number of employers, each of whom believes they are exclusive employees.

May 17, 20231 min read
Automated Into a Job: Workers are using ChatGPT to hold multiple full-time jobs.
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Automated Into a Job: Workers are using ChatGPT to hold multiple full-time jobs.

ChatGPT is helping some workers secretly hold multiple full-time jobs at once. Workers are using OpenAI’s chatbot to boost their productivity so they can earn separate paychecks from a number of employers, each of whom believes they are exclusive employees.

May 17, 20231 min read
AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication
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AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication

Neural networks are predicting how metal will deform under pressure to pilot robots through the tricky process of fabricating aircraft. Machina Labs crafts metal using AI-guided robotic arms.

April 5, 20231 min read
AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication
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AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication

Neural networks are predicting how metal will deform under pressure to pilot robots through the tricky process of fabricating aircraft. Machina Labs crafts metal using AI-guided robotic arms.

April 5, 20231 min read
Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
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Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.

January 26, 20232 min read

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