Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Generative Modeling

Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Generative Modeling

Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
Generative Modeling

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
Generative Modeling

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
Generative Modeling

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
Generative Modeling

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
Generative Modeling

Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
Generative Modeling

Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
Generative Modeling

This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020

While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.

December 23, 20201 min read
This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
Generative Modeling

This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020

While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.

December 23, 20201 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
Generative Modeling

The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
Generative Modeling

The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read
Battling Bias in Synthetic Data: How synthetic data startups are working to avoid bias
Generative Modeling

Battling Bias in Synthetic Data: How synthetic data startups are working to avoid bias

Synthetic datasets can inherit flaws in the real-world data they’re based on. Startups are working on solutions. Generating synthetic datasets for training machine learning systems is a booming business.

October 21, 20202 min read
Battling Bias in Synthetic Data: How synthetic data startups are working to avoid bias
Generative Modeling

Battling Bias in Synthetic Data: How synthetic data startups are working to avoid bias

Synthetic datasets can inherit flaws in the real-world data they’re based on. Startups are working on solutions. Generating synthetic datasets for training machine learning systems is a booming business.

October 21, 20202 min read
Data Compression By AI: Nvidia uses AI to enhance video conferencing quality.
Generative Modeling

Data Compression By AI: Nvidia uses AI to enhance video conferencing quality.

In this work-from-home era, who hasn’t spent a video conference wishing they could read an onscreen document without turning their eyes from the person they’re talking with? Or simply hoping the stream wouldn’t stutter or stall? Deep learning can fill in the missing pieces.

October 14, 20201 min read

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