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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
ERNIE

Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
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Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

August 5, 20202 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
ERNIE

Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

August 5, 20202 min read
Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.
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Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.

Will reading soon become obsolete? A new system converts text articles into videos. VidPress, a prototype project from Chinese tech giant Baidu, currently generates more than 1,000 narrated video summaries of news stories daily.

May 27, 20202 min read
Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.
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Text to Video in Two Minutes: Baidu's VidPress generates video from text.

Will reading soon become obsolete? A new system converts text articles into videos. VidPress, a prototype project from Chinese tech giant Baidu, currently generates more than 1,000 narrated video summaries of news stories daily.

May 27, 20202 min read
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
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Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.

The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.

January 8, 20202 min read
Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.
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Language Modeling on One GPU: Single-headed attention competes with transformers.

The latest large, pretrained language models rely on trendy layers based on transformer networks. New research shows that these newfangled layers may not be necessary.

January 8, 20202 min read
Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?
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Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?

As language models show increasing power, a parallel trend has received less notice: The vogue for naming models after characters in the children’s TV show Sesame Street.

December 18, 20191 min read
Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?
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Inside AI’s Muppet Empire: Why Are So Many NLP Models Named After Muppets?

As language models show increasing power, a parallel trend has received less notice: The vogue for naming models after characters in the children’s TV show Sesame Street.

December 18, 20191 min read

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