GPT-3 Is No MD: GPT-3 lacks medical problem solving skills.
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GPT-3 Is No MD: GPT-3 lacks medical problem solving skills.

The world’s most sophisticated language model won’t replace your doctor anytime soon. Researchers at Nabla, an AI-enabled healthcare platform, found that GPT-3 lacks the logical reasoning skills to be a useful medical chatbot.

November 4, 20201 min read
Propaganda Watch: How military contractors fight disinformation with AI
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Propaganda Watch: How military contractors fight disinformation with AI

The U.S. military enlisted natural language processing to combat disinformation. Primer, a San Francisco startup, is developing a system for the Department of Defense that sifts through news, social media, research, and reports to spot propaganda campaigns.

November 4, 20201 min read
GPT-3 Is No MD: GPT-3 lacks medical problem solving skills.
Language

GPT-3 Is No MD: GPT-3 lacks medical problem solving skills.

The world’s most sophisticated language model won’t replace your doctor anytime soon. Researchers at Nabla, an AI-enabled healthcare platform, found that GPT-3 lacks the logical reasoning skills to be a useful medical chatbot.

November 4, 20201 min read
Propaganda Watch: How military contractors fight disinformation with AI
Language

Propaganda Watch: How military contractors fight disinformation with AI

The U.S. military enlisted natural language processing to combat disinformation. Primer, a San Francisco startup, is developing a system for the Department of Defense that sifts through news, social media, research, and reports to spot propaganda campaigns.

November 4, 20201 min read
The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?
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The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?

Will international rivalries fragment international cooperation in machine learning? Countries competing for AI dominance will lash out at competitors.

October 28, 20202 min read
The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?
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The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?

Will international rivalries fragment international cooperation in machine learning? Countries competing for AI dominance will lash out at competitors.

October 28, 20202 min read
Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models
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Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models

Benchmarks provide a scientific basis for evaluating model performance, but they don’t necessarily map well to human cognitive abilities. Facebook aims to close the gap through a dynamic benchmarking method that keeps humans in the loop.

October 14, 20202 min read
Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models
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Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models

Benchmarks provide a scientific basis for evaluating model performance, but they don’t necessarily map well to human cognitive abilities. Facebook aims to close the gap through a dynamic benchmarking method that keeps humans in the loop.

October 14, 20202 min read
Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.
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Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.

Amazon’s digital assistant is using its eyes as well as its ears to figure out who’s talking. At its annual hardware showcase, Amazon introduced an Alexa skill that melds acoustic, linguistic, and visual cues to help the system keep track of individual speakers and topics of conversation.

October 7, 20201 min read
Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.
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Alexa, Read My Lips: Amazon Alexa uses visual clues to determine who is talking.

Amazon’s digital assistant is using its eyes as well as its ears to figure out who’s talking. At its annual hardware showcase, Amazon introduced an Alexa skill that melds acoustic, linguistic, and visual cues to help the system keep track of individual speakers and topics of conversation.

October 7, 20201 min read
Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.
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Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.

Two years after it pointed a new direction for language models, Bert still hovers near the top of several natural language processing leaderboards. A new study considers whether Bert simply excels at tracking word order or or learns something closer to common sense.

September 16, 20202 min read
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.
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Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.

An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework.

September 16, 20202 min read
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.
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Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.

An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework.

September 16, 20202 min read
Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.
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Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.

Two years after it pointed a new direction for language models, Bert still hovers near the top of several natural language processing leaderboards. A new study considers whether Bert simply excels at tracking word order or or learns something closer to common sense.

September 16, 20202 min read
Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes
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Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes

A strategy manifesto from one of China’s biggest tech companies declares, amid familiar visions of ubiquitous AI, that deepfakes are more boon than bane.

August 19, 20202 min read

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