Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth
Interviews & Essays

Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth

Without question, 2023 has been the most exciting and interesting year in technology that I’ve seen over a fairly long career. It bears mention that I’m pretty sure I said more or less the same thing at the close of 2022...

December 27, 20232 min read
Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data
Interviews & Essays

Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data

One of my favourite flavours of conversation is listening to reinforcement learning experts talk about their children as reinforcement learning agents. These conversations highlight just how comically far behind humans our machine learning models are.

December 27, 20232 min read
Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data
Interviews & Essays

Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data

One of my favourite flavours of conversation is listening to reinforcement learning experts talk about their children as reinforcement learning agents. These conversations highlight just how comically far behind humans our machine learning models are.

December 27, 20232 min read
Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency
Interviews & Essays

Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency

Before this past year, when I told people I worked in AI, more often than not I was met with a blank stare and sometimes a question along the lines of: “You mean like robots?”

December 27, 20233 min read
Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency
Interviews & Essays

Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency

Before this past year, when I told people I worked in AI, more often than not I was met with a blank stare and sometimes a question along the lines of: “You mean like robots?”

December 27, 20233 min read
Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models
Interviews & Essays

Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models

Only a year ago, ChatGPT woke the world up to the power of foundation models. But this power is not about shiny, jaw-dropping demos.

December 27, 20233 min read
Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models
Interviews & Essays

Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models

Only a year ago, ChatGPT woke the world up to the power of foundation models. But this power is not about shiny, jaw-dropping demos.

December 27, 20233 min read
Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion
Interviews & Essays

Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion

The past year has seen incredible innovation in AI, and I expect as much or more in 2024. The coming year undoubtedly will be a year of rapid progress in models – multimodal, multilingual, and (hopefully) smaller and faster.

December 27, 20233 min read
Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion
Interviews & Essays

Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion

The past year has seen incredible innovation in AI, and I expect as much or more in 2024. The coming year undoubtedly will be a year of rapid progress in models – multimodal, multilingual, and (hopefully) smaller and faster.

December 27, 20233 min read
Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories
Interviews & Essays

Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories

The year 2023 was an inflection point in the development of broadly useful AI systems across text, image, video, audio, and other modalities. At Runway alone, we saw the release of video-generation models such as Gen-1 and Gen-2...

December 27, 20232 min read
Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories
Interviews & Essays

Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories

The year 2023 was an inflection point in the development of broadly useful AI systems across text, image, video, audio, and other modalities. At Runway alone, we saw the release of video-generation models such as Gen-1 and Gen-2...

December 27, 20232 min read
Alon Halevy: Facebook AI director Alon Halevy envisions your personal data timeline
Interviews & Essays

Alon Halevy: Facebook AI director Alon Halevy envisions your personal data timeline

The important question of how companies and organizations use our data has received a lot of attention in the technology and policy communities. An equally important question that deserves more focus in 2023 is how...

December 28, 20222 min read
Alon Halevy: Facebook AI director Alon Halevy envisions your personal data timeline
Interviews & Essays

Alon Halevy: Facebook AI director Alon Halevy envisions your personal data timeline

The important question of how companies and organizations use our data has received a lot of attention in the technology and policy communities. An equally important question that deserves more focus in 2023 is how...

December 28, 20222 min read
Reza Zadeh: Generative AI can bring a breakthrough in active learning, says Matroid founder Reza Zadeh
Interviews & Essays

Reza Zadeh: Generative AI can bring a breakthrough in active learning, says Matroid founder Reza Zadeh

As we enter the new year, there is a growing hope that the recent explosion of generative AI will bring significant progress in active learning. This technique, which enables machine learning systems to generate their own training examples and request them to be labeled...

December 28, 20222 min read
Reza Zadeh: Generative AI can bring a breakthrough in active learning, says Matroid founder Reza Zadeh
Interviews & Essays

Reza Zadeh: Generative AI can bring a breakthrough in active learning, says Matroid founder Reza Zadeh

As we enter the new year, there is a growing hope that the recent explosion of generative AI will bring significant progress in active learning. This technique, which enables machine learning systems to generate their own training examples and request them to be labeled...

December 28, 20222 min read

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