Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries
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Recognizing Workplace Hazards: AI Device Helps Warehouses Avoid Workplace Injuries

A wearable device may help warehouse workers avoid injuries. Modjoul, maker of a system that evaluates risks to people engaged in physical labor, received an undisclosed sum from Amazon as part of a $1 billion investment in technologies that might enhance the retailer giant’s operations.

May 18, 20222 min read
When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data
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When Data = Danger: Consumer Behavior App Removes Planned Parenthood Data

Amid rising social tension in the United States over reproductive freedom, a company that analyzes location data on abortion clinics stopped distributing its findings after a critical press report.

May 18, 20222 min read
AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
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AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.

It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.

March 30, 20222 min read
AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
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AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.

It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.

March 30, 20222 min read
Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.
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Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.

Robocalls slip through smartphone spam filters, but a new generation of deep learning tools promises to tighten the net. Research proposed fresh approaches to thwarting robocalls. Such innovations soon could be deployed in apps.

February 23, 20222 min read
Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.
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Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.

Robocalls slip through smartphone spam filters, but a new generation of deep learning tools promises to tighten the net. Research proposed fresh approaches to thwarting robocalls. Such innovations soon could be deployed in apps.

February 23, 20222 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.
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A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.

OpenAI unveiled a more reliable successor to its GPT-3 natural language model. InstructGPT is a version of GPT-3 fine-tuned to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased output. It's available via an application programming interface.

February 2, 20222 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.
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A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.

OpenAI unveiled a more reliable successor to its GPT-3 natural language model. InstructGPT is a version of GPT-3 fine-tuned to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased output. It's available via an application programming interface.

February 2, 20222 min read
Ethics for an Automated Army: Department of Defense issues AI ethics.
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Ethics for an Automated Army: Department of Defense issues AI ethics.

The U.S. Department of Defense issued new ethical guidelines for contractors who develop its AI systems. The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, which issues contracts for AI and other high-tech systems, issued guidelines that contractors must follow.

January 5, 20222 min read
Ethics for an Automated Army: Department of Defense issues AI ethics.
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Ethics for an Automated Army: Department of Defense issues AI ethics.

The U.S. Department of Defense issued new ethical guidelines for contractors who develop its AI systems. The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, which issues contracts for AI and other high-tech systems, issued guidelines that contractors must follow.

January 5, 20222 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
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Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
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Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
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Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
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Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read

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