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Solving a machine-learning mystery
Large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 are massive neural networks that can generate human-like text, from poetry to programming code. Trained using troves of internet data, these machine-learning models take a small bit of input text and then predict the …
GitHub CEO: The EU ‘will define how the world regulates AI’
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke addressed the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels and gave his views on the bloc’s upcoming AI Act.
“The AI Act will define how the world regulates AI and we need to get it right, …
Automating the math for decision-making under uncertainty
One reason deep learning exploded over the last decade was the availability of programming languages that could automate the math — college-level calculus — that is needed to train each new model. Neural networks are trained by tuning their parameters …
How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
The most powerful formula in physics starts with a slender S, the symbol for a sort of sum known as an integral. Further along comes a second S, representing a quantity known as action. Together, these twin S’s form the …
Interactive cyber-physical human: Generating contact-rich whole-body motions
Google will leapfrog rivals with AI event next week
Google is holding an AI event next week to make some announcements ahead of rivals.
The web giant says the event will provide an update on how Google is “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, …
Lucy 4 is moving ahead with generative AI for knowledge management
When it comes to workplace bugbears, wasting time fruitlessly searching shared drives for a particular resource has to be up there. Yet would it not be easier to lighten the workload through an answer engine with a sprinkling of generative …
Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture
Over 60 years ago, Ralph Fox posed a problem about knots that haunts mathematicians to this day. His question is now often formulated as the “slice-ribbon conjecture,” which posits that two seemingly distinct groups of knots are actually the same. …
Robot: I’m sorry. Human: I don’t care anymore!
MIT Solve announces 2023 global challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship
MIT Solve, an MIT initiative with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges, announced today the 2023 Global Challenges and the Indigenous Communities Fellowship.
Solve invites anyone from anywhere in the world to submit a solution to this …
OpenAI tool aims to uncover AI-generated text
OpenAI has launched a tool for detecting text generated using services like its own ChatGPT.
Generative AI models used for services like ChatGPT have raised many societal and ethical questions: Could they be used to generate misinformation on an unprecedented …
Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
Imagine that your neighbor calls to ask a favor: Could you please feed their pet rabbit some carrot slices? Easy enough, you’d think. You can imagine their kitchen, even if you’ve never been there — carrots in a fridge, a …
New approach to ‘punishment and reward’ method of training artificial intelligence offers potential key to unlock new treatments for aggressive cancers
Artificial Intelligence: Making Retail POS Systems Smarter
The retail sector is no longer a haven for old technologies, where customers refuse to abandon their favorite brands. Every business in a competitive retail ecosystem is struggling to keep customers engaged and delighted and convert every potential opportunity into …
Introducing ChatGPT Plus
US and EU agree to collaborate on improving lives with AI
The US and EU have signed a landmark agreement to explore how AI can be used to improve lives.
The US Department of State and EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) simultaneously held a virtual …
When Does the Brain Operate at Peak Performance?
Over the last few decades, an idea called the critical brain hypothesis has been helping neuroscientists understand how the human brain operates as an information-processing powerhouse. It posits that the brain is always teetering between two phases, or modes, of …
Legged robots need more testing before real-world use
New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
