This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
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This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 min read
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
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This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 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
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
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Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
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Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones
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Competition Heats Up in Mobile AI: Google Designed Its Own Tensor AI Chip for Smartphones

Google designed its own AI chip for its new smartphone — a snub to Qualcomm, the dominant chip vendor in Android phones. What’s new: Google debuted the Tensor chip last week

November 3, 20212 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
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Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
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Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 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
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
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Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

October 27, 20212 min read
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
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Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

October 27, 20212 min read
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
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Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.

October 13, 20212 min read

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