The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages
NLP

The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages

Sentence pairs that have equivalent meanings in different languages — typically used to train machine translation systems — have been available in sufficient quantities for only around 100 languages. New work doubled that number and produced a more capable model.

October 19, 20224 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
NLP

All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
NLP

All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
NLP

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
NLP

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
NLP

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
The Batch: Special Issue! Foundational Algorithms, Where They Came From, Where They're Going
NLP

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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