ChatGPT Ain’t What It Used to Be: ChatGPT's behavior change over time
Stanford University

ChatGPT Ain’t What It Used to Be: ChatGPT's behavior change over time

It wasn’t your imagination: OpenAI’s large language models have changed. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has drifted in recent months. In a limited selection of tasks, some prompts yielded better results than before, some worse.

July 26, 20232 min read
Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy
Stanford University

Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy

One challenge to making online education available worldwide is evaluating an immense volume of student work. Especially difficult is evaluating interactive computer programming assignments such as coding a game.

July 5, 20233 min read
Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy
Stanford University

Bug Finder: A system that provides feedback with near human-level accuracy

One challenge to making online education available worldwide is evaluating an immense volume of student work. Especially difficult is evaluating interactive computer programming assignments such as coding a game.

July 5, 20233 min read
Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text
Stanford University

Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text

How can you tell when you’re reading machine-generated text? Three recent papers proposed solutions: Watermarking, classification, and a statistical method.

April 12, 20233 min read
Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text
Stanford University

Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text

How can you tell when you’re reading machine-generated text? Three recent papers proposed solutions: Watermarking, classification, and a statistical method.

April 12, 20233 min read
AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
Stanford University

AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

April 12, 20232 min read
AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
Stanford University

AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

April 12, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
Stanford University

Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
Stanford University

Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
Stanford University

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.
Stanford University

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
Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.
Stanford University

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.
Stanford University

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
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
Stanford University

Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
Stanford University

Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read

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