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This week’s big announcement in the robotics industry was Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot, the maker of the famous Roomba vacuum cleaner. The acquisition…
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In recent years, deep learning has taken great strides in some of the most challenging areas of artificial intelligence, including computer vision…
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There’s growing concern that artificial intelligence—namely deep learning—is becoming centralized within a few very wealthy companies. This shift does…
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In the 1970s, MIT scientist Terry Winograd was programming computers to understand language. His program SHRDLU was considered a successful…
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Large language models like GPT-3 have advanced to the point that it has become difficult to measure the limits of their capabilities. When you have a…
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By Alex Kostikov Many of us feel that life is accelerating, and we are not keeping up. We respond to e-mails late, do not have time to respond to posts…
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This week, the BigScience research project released BLOOM, a large language model that, at first glance, it looks like another attempt to reproduce…
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Large language models (LLM), neural networks trained on huge corpora of text (or other types of data) have become a hot topic of discussion in the…
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Since GPT-2, there has been much excitement around the applications of large language models. And in the past few years, we’ve seen LLMs used for many…
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Even before the recent craze about sentient chatbots, large language models (LLM) had been the source of much excitement and concern. In recent years…
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The past week has seen a frenzy of articles, interviews, and other types of media coverage about Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who told The…
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Reinforcement learning is one of the exciting branches of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in game-playing AI systems, modern robots…
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