Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
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Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.

January 26, 20232 min read
Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
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Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.

January 26, 20232 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
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Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
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Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
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Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.

An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.

January 18, 20232 min read
Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
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Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.

An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.

January 18, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
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Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
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Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
Will We Have Enough Data?
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Will We Have Enough Data?

The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.

January 4, 20233 min read
Will We Have Enough Data?
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Will We Have Enough Data?

The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.

January 4, 20233 min read
Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.
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Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.

This year we really started to see the mainstreaming of AI. Systems like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT captured the public imagination to an extent we haven’t seen before in our field.

December 28, 20222 min read
Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.
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Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.

This year we really started to see the mainstreaming of AI. Systems like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT captured the public imagination to an extent we haven’t seen before in our field.

December 28, 20222 min read
Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
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Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.

Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.

December 21, 20222 min read
Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
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Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.

Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.

December 21, 20222 min read
Programmer’s Best Friend: Code generation services took off in 2022.
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Programmer’s Best Friend: Code generation services took off in 2022.

Behind schedule on a software project? There’s an app for that. Language models fine-tuned on computer code proved capable of generating software routines similar to the work of experienced developers — though the results can be hit-or-miss.

December 21, 20221 min read

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