Tech & Society
Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon
The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story...
Tech & Society
Trading on AI: The GameStop Phenomenon
The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story...
Tech & Society
Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.
A grassroots research collective aims to make a GPT-3 clone that’s available to everyone. EleutherAI, a loose-knit group of independent researchers, is developing GPT-Neo, an open source, free-to-use version of OpenAI’s gargantuan language model.
Tech & Society
Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.
U.S. regulators for the first time allowed commercial operators of autonomous aerial vehicles to fly out of operators’ sight. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration authorized drone maker American Robotics to fly without requirement.
Tech & Society
Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.
Facebook expanded a system of vision, language, and speech models designed to open the social network to users who are visually impaired. A Facebook service that describes photos in a synthesized voice now recognizes 1,200 visual concepts — 10 times more than the previous version.
Tech & Society
Drones Unleashed: FAA authorizes AI drones beyond line of sight.
U.S. regulators for the first time allowed commercial operators of autonomous aerial vehicles to fly out of operators’ sight. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration authorized drone maker American Robotics to fly without requirement.
Tech & Society
Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.
Facebook expanded a system of vision, language, and speech models designed to open the social network to users who are visually impaired. A Facebook service that describes photos in a synthesized voice now recognizes 1,200 visual concepts — 10 times more than the previous version.
Tech & Society
AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.
An algorithm is helping cities locate pipes that could release highly toxic lead into drinking water. BlueConduit, a startup that focuses on water safety, is working with dozens of North American municipal governments to locate lead water lines so they can be replaced.
Tech & Society
AI Versus Lead Poisoning: How BlueConduit uses AI to identify lead water lines.
An algorithm is helping cities locate pipes that could release highly toxic lead into drinking water. BlueConduit, a startup that focuses on water safety, is working with dozens of North American municipal governments to locate lead water lines so they can be replaced.
Tech & Society
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.
Tech & Society
The Fax About Tracking Covid: A deep learning system for sorting critical Covid-19 cases.
A pair of neural networks is helping to prioritize Covid-19 cases for contact tracing. The public health department of California’s Contra Costa County is using deep learning to sort Covid-19 cases reported via the pre-internet technology known as fax.
Tech & Society
How AI Can Strengthen Democracy
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election.
Tech & Society
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.
Tech & Society
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.
Tech & Society
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.
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