Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
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Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 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
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
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers

The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google

September 8, 20212 min read
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers

The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google

September 8, 20212 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
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Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
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Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
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Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
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Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Meet the New Smart-Cities Champ: Chinese researchers win prizes for AI traffic safety.
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Meet the New Smart-Cities Champ: Chinese researchers win prizes for AI traffic safety.

Chinese researchers for the first time swept a competition to develop AI systems that monitor urban traffic. Chinese universities and companies won first and second place place in all five categories of the 2021 AI City Challenge.

July 28, 20211 min read
Meet the New Smart-Cities Champ: Chinese researchers win prizes for AI traffic safety.
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Meet the New Smart-Cities Champ: Chinese researchers win prizes for AI traffic safety.

Chinese researchers for the first time swept a competition to develop AI systems that monitor urban traffic. Chinese universities and companies won first and second place place in all five categories of the 2021 AI City Challenge.

July 28, 20211 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
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Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
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Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words

Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.

July 21, 20211 min read

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