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
Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.

Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as

December 22, 20212 min read
Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.

Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as

December 22, 20212 min read
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
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Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.

DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.

December 15, 20212 min read
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
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Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.

DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.

December 15, 20212 min read
Corporate Ethics Counterbalance: Timnit Gebru launches institute for AI fairness.
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Corporate Ethics Counterbalance: Timnit Gebru launches institute for AI fairness.

One year after her acrimonious exit from Google, ethics researcher Timnit Gebru launched an independent institute to study neglected issues in AI.

December 8, 20212 min read
Corporate Ethics Counterbalance: Timnit Gebru launches institute for AI fairness.
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Corporate Ethics Counterbalance: Timnit Gebru launches institute for AI fairness.

One year after her acrimonious exit from Google, ethics researcher Timnit Gebru launched an independent institute to study neglected issues in AI.

December 8, 20212 min read
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
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Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems

Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.

November 17, 20212 min read
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
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Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems

Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.

November 17, 20212 min read
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
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GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users

Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.

November 10, 20212 min read
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
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GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users

Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.

November 10, 20212 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
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New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
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New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read

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