Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
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Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
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Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Found in Translation: Apple's method to identify a language from a few words
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Found in Translation: Apple's method to identify a language from a few words

Language models can’t correct your misspellings or suggest the next word in a text without knowing what language you’re using. For instance, if you type “tac-,” are you aiming for “taco,” a hand-held meal in Spanish, or “taca,” a crown in Turkish?

June 17, 20201 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
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Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Found in Translation: Apple's method to identify a language from a few words
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Found in Translation: Apple's method to identify a language from a few words

Language models can’t correct your misspellings or suggest the next word in a text without knowing what language you’re using. For instance, if you type “tac-,” are you aiming for “taco,” a hand-held meal in Spanish, or “taca,” a crown in Turkish?

June 17, 20201 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
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Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.
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The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.

Machine learning promises to streamline handling of tomorrow’s bureaucratic drudgery — and, it turns out, that of 2,500 years ago. Computer vision is helping researchers at the University of Chicago translate a massive collection of ancient records inscribed on clay tablets.

March 18, 20201 min read
The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.
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The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.

Machine learning promises to streamline handling of tomorrow’s bureaucratic drudgery — and, it turns out, that of 2,500 years ago. Computer vision is helping researchers at the University of Chicago translate a massive collection of ancient records inscribed on clay tablets.

March 18, 20201 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
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Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.
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Upgrading Softmax: Mixtape is a faster way to avoid the softmax bottleneck.

Softmax commonly computes probabilities in a classifier’s output layer. But softmax isn’t always accurate in complex tasks — say, in a natural-language task, when the length of word vectors is much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary.

January 22, 20202 min read
Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
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Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.

In tasks that involve generating natural language, neural networks often map an input sequence of words to an output sequence of words. Facebook researchers used a similar technique on sequences of mathematical symbols, training a model to map math problems to math solutions.

January 15, 20202 min read
Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.
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Neural Networks Study Math: A sequence to sequence model for solving math problems.

In tasks that involve generating natural language, neural networks often map an input sequence of words to an output sequence of words. Facebook researchers used a similar technique on sequences of mathematical symbols, training a model to map math problems to math solutions.

January 15, 20202 min read

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