This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
Year in Review

This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020

While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.

December 23, 20201 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
Year in Review

Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.
Year in Review

Coping With Covid: How AI helped fight Covid-19.

AI accelerated the search for a coronavirus vaccine, detected Covid-19 cases, and otherwise softened the pandemic’s blow. Machine learning researchers worldwide scrambled to harness the technology against the coronavirus.

December 23, 20202 min read
Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP
Year in Review

Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP

Earlier language models powered by Word2Vec and GloVe embeddings yielded confused chatbots, grammar tools with middle-school reading comprehension, and not-half-bad translations. The latest generation is so good, some people consider it dangerous.

December 24, 20192 min read
Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP
Year in Review

Natural Language Processing Models Get Literate: Why 2019 was a breakthrough year for NLP

Earlier language models powered by Word2Vec and GloVe embeddings yielded confused chatbots, grammar tools with middle-school reading comprehension, and not-half-bad translations. The latest generation is so good, some people consider it dangerous.

December 24, 20192 min read

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