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The neuro-symbolic solution to common sense
Artificial intelligence research has made great achievements in solving specific applications, but we’re still far from the kind of general-purpose AI…
Ben Dickson
Mar 14
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Model-free vs model-based reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning is one of the exciting branches of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in game-playing AI systems, modern robots…
Ben Dickson
Jun 13
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An AI concept that combines brains and computers
By Alex Kostikov In the previous article “Individual artificial intelligence: A new technology that will change our world”, we talked about the fact…
Ben Dickson
May 8
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The hidden (human) side of algorithms
As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society…
Ben Dickson
Feb 21
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A TinyML model for real-time object detection
A new machine learning technique developed by researchers at Edge Impulse, a platform for creating ML models for the edge, makes it possible to run…
Ben Dickson
Apr 18
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Zero-shot reasoning with large language models (with some caveats)
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…
Ben Dickson
Jul 11
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An introduction to neural architecture search (NAS)
Deep neural networks have a huge advantage: They replace “feature engineering”—a difficult and arduous part of the classic machine learning cycle—with…
Ben Dickson
Feb 28
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Why competitions are a bad measure for AI
Last week’s announcement of AlphaCode, DeepMind’s source code–generating deep learning system, created a lot of excitement—some of it…
Ben Dickson
Feb 14
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BLOOM, AI research culture, and the problems of LLMs
This week, the BigScience research project released BLOOM, a large language model that, at first glance, it looks like another attempt to reproduce…
Ben Dickson
Jul 18
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Yann LeCun's vision for the future of self-supervised learning
What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Scientists and researchers are divided on the answer. Yann…
Ben Dickson
Mar 7
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Humans should be at the center of AI
There are two contrasting but equally disturbing images of artificial intelligence. One warns about a future in which runaway intelligence becomes…
Ben Dickson
Mar 21
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A gentle introduction to transformer networks
In recent years, the transformer model has become one of the main highlights of advances in deep learning and deep neural networks. It is mainly used…
Ben Dickson
May 2
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