Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Transformer

Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations

Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.

November 24, 20212 min read
Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Transformer

Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations

Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.

November 24, 20212 min read
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Transformer

This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 min read
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Transformer

This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 min read
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Transformer

GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users

Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.

November 10, 20212 min read
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Transformer

GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users

Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.

November 10, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
Transformer

Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
Transformer

Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Transformer

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Transformer

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
Transformer

New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
Transformer

New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Transformer

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Transformer

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI
Transformer

Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI

Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.

October 13, 20212 min read

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