Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Generative Modeling

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

April 5, 20233 min read
Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Generative Modeling

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

April 5, 20233 min read
What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.
Generative Modeling

What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.

March 29, 20232 min read
What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.
Generative Modeling

What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.

March 29, 20232 min read
Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
Generative Modeling

Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

March 29, 20232 min read
Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
Generative Modeling

Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

March 29, 20232 min read
Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.
Generative Modeling

Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.

Chinese companies have found loopholes to sidestep United States limits on AI chips. Facing severe limits on U.S. exports of high-performance chips, Chinese AI firms are purchasing them through subsidiaries and using them through cloud services, the Financial Times reported.

March 29, 20232 min read
Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.
Generative Modeling

Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.

Chinese companies have found loopholes to sidestep United States limits on AI chips. Facing severe limits on U.S. exports of high-performance chips, Chinese AI firms are purchasing them through subsidiaries and using them through cloud services, the Financial Times reported.

March 29, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
Generative Modeling

How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
Generative Modeling

How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
Deep (Learning) State: How Romania is using NLP as a political advisor.
Generative Modeling

Deep (Learning) State: How Romania is using NLP as a political advisor.

Meet the Romanian government’s automated political adviser. The Prime Minister of Romania launched ION, a system that summarizes and organizes public comments for cabinet ministers, Politico.eu reported.

March 8, 20231 min read
Deep (Learning) State: How Romania is using NLP as a political advisor.
Generative Modeling

Deep (Learning) State: How Romania is using NLP as a political advisor.

Meet the Romanian government’s automated political adviser. The Prime Minister of Romania launched ION, a system that summarizes and organizes public comments for cabinet ministers, Politico.eu reported.

March 8, 20231 min read
Text-Driven Video Alteration: Gen-1 uses text prompts to modify videos.
Generative Modeling

Text-Driven Video Alteration: Gen-1 uses text prompts to modify videos.

On the heels of systems that generate video directly from text, new work uses text to adjust the imagery in existing videos. Researchers unveiled Gen-1...

March 8, 20233 min read
Text-Driven Video Alteration: Gen-1 uses text prompts to modify videos.
Generative Modeling

Text-Driven Video Alteration: Gen-1 uses text prompts to modify videos.

On the heels of systems that generate video directly from text, new work uses text to adjust the imagery in existing videos. Researchers unveiled Gen-1...

March 8, 20233 min read
No Copyright for Generated Images: U.S. will not recognize copyrights for AI-generated images.
Generative Modeling

No Copyright for Generated Images: U.S. will not recognize copyrights for AI-generated images.

The output of AI-driven image generators is not protected by copyright in the United States. The U.S. Copyright Office concluded that copyright does not apply to images generated by the image generator Midjourney.

March 8, 20232 min read

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