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U.S. Adults Fail AI 101
Most Americans don’t understand AI, according to a new survey. Only 16 percent of adults in the United States got a passing grade on a true-or-false questionnaire of AI’s capabilities and uses.
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Voices for the Voiceless: Generative AI models are creating voices for Hollywood and video games.
Musicians and filmmakers adopted AI as a standard part of the audio-production toolbox. What happened: Professional media makers embraced neural networks that generate new sounds and modify old ones. Voice actors bristled.
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Voices for the Voiceless: Generative AI models are creating voices for Hollywood and video games.
Musicians and filmmakers adopted AI as a standard part of the audio-production toolbox. What happened: Professional media makers embraced neural networks that generate new sounds and modify old ones. Voice actors bristled.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.
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What Makes TikTok Tick: Leaked info reveals how TikTok's algorithm works.
A leaked document gave reporters a glimpse of what makes TikTok’s renowned recommender algorithm so effective.
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What Makes TikTok Tick: Leaked info reveals how TikTok's algorithm works.
A leaked document gave reporters a glimpse of what makes TikTok’s renowned recommender algorithm so effective.
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