U.S. Acts Against Algorithmic Bias: Meta Removes Bias from its Ad Algorithms
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U.S. Acts Against Algorithmic Bias: Meta Removes Bias from its Ad Algorithms

Regulators are forcing Meta (formerly Facebook) to display certain advertisements more evenly across its membership. The United States government compelled Meta to revise its ad-placement system to deliver ads for housing to members regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity.

June 29, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
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From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read
From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
Meta

From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read
New Supercomputer on the Block: All about Meta's AI Research Supercluster
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New Supercomputer on the Block: All about Meta's AI Research Supercluster

Facebook’s parent company is staking its future on a new compute cluster. Meta unveiled AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which is designed to accelerate training of large models for applications like computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition.

February 9, 20222 min read
New Supercomputer on the Block: All about Meta's AI Research Supercluster
Meta

New Supercomputer on the Block: All about Meta's AI Research Supercluster

Facebook’s parent company is staking its future on a new compute cluster. Meta unveiled AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which is designed to accelerate training of large models for applications like computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition.

February 9, 20222 min read
Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.
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Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.

Some of the world’s largest corporations will use standardized criteria to evaluate AI systems that influence hiring and other personnel decisions.

January 26, 20222 min read
Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.
Meta

Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.

Some of the world’s largest corporations will use standardized criteria to evaluate AI systems that influence hiring and other personnel decisions.

January 26, 20222 min read
Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More
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Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More

In 2021, transformers were harnessed to discover drugs, recognize speech, and paint pictures — and much more.

December 22, 20212 min read
Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More
Meta

Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More

In 2021, transformers were harnessed to discover drugs, recognize speech, and paint pictures — and much more.

December 22, 20212 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
Meta

Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read

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