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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Chatbot Cage Match: Chatbot Arena compares chatbots side-by-side.
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Chatbot Cage Match: Chatbot Arena compares chatbots side-by-side.

A new online tool ranks chatbots by pitting them against each other in head-to-head competitions. Chatbot Arena allows users to prompt two large language models simultaneously and identify the one that delivers the best responses.

July 19, 20231 min read
Chatbot Cage Match: Chatbot Arena compares chatbots side-by-side.
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Chatbot Cage Match: Chatbot Arena compares chatbots side-by-side.

A new online tool ranks chatbots by pitting them against each other in head-to-head competitions. Chatbot Arena allows users to prompt two large language models simultaneously and identify the one that delivers the best responses.

July 19, 20231 min read
Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh
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Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh

Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.

September 21, 20222 min read
Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh
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Toward Machines That LOL: Scientists Teach a Speech Recognition Robot to Laugh

Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.

September 21, 20222 min read
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
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Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date

A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.

August 3, 20222 min read
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
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Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date

A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.

August 3, 20222 min read
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.

July 20, 20222 min read
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.

July 20, 20222 min read
Order in the Court: Machine Learning Tool from Everlaw Finds Legal Evidence
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Order in the Court: Machine Learning Tool from Everlaw Finds Legal Evidence

Machine learning is helping lawyers sift through mountains of documents to find evidence. The legal technology company Everlaw launched a clustering feature that automatically organizes up to 25 million documents for lawyers gathering evidence to be used during a trial.

July 6, 20222 min read
Order in the Court: Machine Learning Tool from Everlaw Finds Legal Evidence
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Order in the Court: Machine Learning Tool from Everlaw Finds Legal Evidence

Machine learning is helping lawyers sift through mountains of documents to find evidence. The legal technology company Everlaw launched a clustering feature that automatically organizes up to 25 million documents for lawyers gathering evidence to be used during a trial.

July 6, 20222 min read
LaMDA Comes Alive?: Google Engineer Says LaMDA AI is Sentient
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LaMDA Comes Alive?: Google Engineer Says LaMDA AI is Sentient

A chatbot persuaded at least one person that it has feelings. A senior engineer at Google announced his belief that the company’s latest conversational language model is sentient.

June 15, 20222 min read
LaMDA Comes Alive?: Google Engineer Says LaMDA AI is Sentient
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LaMDA Comes Alive?: Google Engineer Says LaMDA AI is Sentient

A chatbot persuaded at least one person that it has feelings. A senior engineer at Google announced his belief that the company’s latest conversational language model is sentient.

June 15, 20222 min read
The Batch: Special Issue! Foundational Algorithms, Where They Came From, Where They're Going
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The Batch: Special Issue! Foundational Algorithms, Where They Came From, Where They're Going

Years ago, I had to choose between a neural network and a decision tree learning algorithm. It was necessary to pick an efficient one, because we planned to apply the algorithm to a very large set of users on a limited compute budget.

May 25, 202217 min read

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