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Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
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Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
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Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.
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Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the saying goes — but how to make taxes fair and beneficial remains an open question. New research aims to answer it.

January 5, 20222 min read
Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.
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Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the saying goes — but how to make taxes fair and beneficial remains an open question. New research aims to answer it.

January 5, 20222 min read
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
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What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.

Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.

June 2, 20212 min read
What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.
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What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.

Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.

June 2, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
Gender Bender: Double-Hard Debias helps lessen gender bias in NLP models.
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Gender Bender: Double-Hard Debias helps lessen gender bias in NLP models.

AI learns human biases: In word vector space, “man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker,” as one paper put it. New research helps language models unlearn such prejudices.

June 17, 20202 min read
Gender Bender: Double-Hard Debias helps lessen gender bias in NLP models.
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Gender Bender: Double-Hard Debias helps lessen gender bias in NLP models.

AI learns human biases: In word vector space, “man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker,” as one paper put it. New research helps language models unlearn such prejudices.

June 17, 20202 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
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Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
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Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
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Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
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Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
Keeping the Facts Straight: NLP system FactCC fact checks texts.
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Keeping the Facts Straight: NLP system FactCC fact checks texts.

Automatically generated text summaries are becoming common in search engines and news websites. But existing summarizers often mix up facts. For instance, a victim’s name might get switched for the perpetrator’s.

December 11, 20192 min read

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