From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
Transformer

From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read
From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
Transformer

From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
Transformer

Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data

When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.

April 6, 20222 min read
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
Transformer

Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data

When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.

April 6, 20222 min read
Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster
Transformer

Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster

Is your colossal text generator bogged down in training? Nvidia announced a chip designed to accelerate the transformer architecture, the basis of large language models such as GPT-3.

March 30, 20222 min read
Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster
Transformer

Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster

Is your colossal text generator bogged down in training? Nvidia announced a chip designed to accelerate the transformer architecture, the basis of large language models such as GPT-3.

March 30, 20222 min read
Competitive Coder: AI code writing system can compete alongside humans.
Transformer

Competitive Coder: AI code writing system can compete alongside humans.

Programming is hard. Programming competitions are harder. Yet transformers proved themselves up to the task.

February 9, 20222 min read
The Limits of Pretraining: More pretraining doesn't guarantee a better fine-tuned AI.
Transformer

The Limits of Pretraining: More pretraining doesn't guarantee a better fine-tuned AI.

The higher the accuracy of a pretrained model, the better its performance after fine-tuning, right? Not necessarily. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of image-recognition experiments and performed some of their own.

February 9, 20222 min read
Competitive Coder: AI code writing system can compete alongside humans.
Transformer

Competitive Coder: AI code writing system can compete alongside humans.

Programming is hard. Programming competitions are harder. Yet transformers proved themselves up to the task.

February 9, 20222 min read
The Limits of Pretraining: More pretraining doesn't guarantee a better fine-tuned AI.
Transformer

The Limits of Pretraining: More pretraining doesn't guarantee a better fine-tuned AI.

The higher the accuracy of a pretrained model, the better its performance after fine-tuning, right? Not necessarily. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of image-recognition experiments and performed some of their own.

February 9, 20222 min read
Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.
Transformer

Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.

Most U.S. state agencies use AI without limits or oversight. An investigative report probed reasons why efforts to rein them in have made little headway. Since 2018, nearly every proposed bill aimed at studying or controlling how state agencies use automated decision systems.

February 2, 20222 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.
Transformer

A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.

OpenAI unveiled a more reliable successor to its GPT-3 natural language model. InstructGPT is a version of GPT-3 fine-tuned to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased output. It's available via an application programming interface.

February 2, 20222 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.
Transformer

A Kinder, Gentler Language Model: Inside Instruct GPT-3, OpenAI's GPT-3 successor.

OpenAI unveiled a more reliable successor to its GPT-3 natural language model. InstructGPT is a version of GPT-3 fine-tuned to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased output. It's available via an application programming interface.

February 2, 20222 min read
Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.
Transformer

Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.

Most U.S. state agencies use AI without limits or oversight. An investigative report probed reasons why efforts to rein them in have made little headway. Since 2018, nearly every proposed bill aimed at studying or controlling how state agencies use automated decision systems.

February 2, 20222 min read
Transformers See in 3D: Using transformers to visualize depth in 2D images.
Transformer

Transformers See in 3D: Using transformers to visualize depth in 2D images.

Visual robots typically perceive the three-dimensional world through sequences of two-dimensional images, but they don’t always know what they’re looking at. For instance, Tesla’s self-driving system has been known to mistake a full moon for a traffic light.

January 26, 20223 min read

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