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AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

MIT Technology
January 14, 2021

In a study published in Science[1] today, Berger and her colleagues pull several of these strands together and use NLP to predict mutations that allow viruses to avoid being detected…

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Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

MIT Technology
January 12, 2021

Researchers at Auburn University in Alabama and Adobe Research discovered the flaw[1] when they tried to get an NLP system to generate explanations for its behavior, such as why it…

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This avocado armchair could be the future of AI

MIT Technology
January 5, 2021

For all GPT-3’s flair, its output can feel untethered from reality, as if it doesn’t know what it’s talking about. That’s because it doesn’t. By grounding text in images, researchers…

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The year deepfakes went mainstream

MIT Technology
December 24, 2020

In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered[1] a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes” was posting nonconsensual fake porn…

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Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI

MIT Technology
December 11, 2020

How bits work You’ve probably heard before that computers store things in 1s and 0s. These fundamental units of information are known as bits. When a bit is “on,” it…

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AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem

MIT Technology
December 11, 2020

But there are a number of problems. One is that workers on these platforms earn very low wages. We did a study where we followed hundreds of Amazon Mechanical Turk…

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We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says

MIT Technology
December 5, 2020

Many details of the exact sequence of events that led up to Gebru’s departure are not yet clear; both she and Google have declined to comment beyond their posts on…

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How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade

MIT Technology
November 20, 2020

An AI that completes quests in a text-based adventure game by talking to the characters has learned not only how to do things, but how to get others to do…

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An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI

MIT Technology
November 18, 2020

The news: A new AI model[1] for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they want to read. On November 16,…

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The key to smarter robot collaborators may be more simplicity

MIT Technology
November 13, 2020

Think of all the subconscious processes you perform while you’re driving. As you take in information about the surrounding vehicles, you’re anticipating how they might move and thinking on the…

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AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

This avocado armchair could be the future of AI

The year deepfakes went mainstream

Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI

AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says

How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade

An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI

The key to smarter robot collaborators may be more simplicity

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