The Best Articles in Artificial Intelligence
The most useful articles and videos in Artificial Intelligence from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Artificial Intelligence by Refind users in 2024 so far.
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Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!We discuss:- how AI will revolutionize software- whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be fundin...
AI pioneer calls to stop before it’s too late
Professor Stuart J. Russell warns that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity unless we can ensure that these systems remain aligned with human valu...
AI: a blessing or curse for humanity?
Artificial intelligence is playing an ever-increasing role in our lives. But will this prove to be a blessing for humanity, or have we created a monster? We ...
From the MIT GenAI Summit: A Crash Course in Generative AI
Join Ellie Pavlick, Brown University Professor and Google AI Researcher, for a crash course on generative AI. Presented at the 2023 MIT GenAI Summit
AI - The World is too much with Us
Short film made entirely with AI generated images. Midjourney and Krea used to make the base images. These were expanded and adjusted using Photoshop. I used Pika…
What is ...?
New to Artificial Intelligence? These articles make an excellent introduction.
Free AI for Beginners Course
Microsoft has put together an AI course for beginners, consisting of a 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum, available for free to all.
«The aptly-named Artificial Intelligence for Beginners is put together by Microsoft Azure Cloud Advocates, and consists of a 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum designed to introduce learners to the wonderful world of AI.»
An Introduction to AI and Economics
So far, the adoption rate of methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) has been quite uneven across the economics profession. The uptake of these methods has been heavily…
What is Neural Network? How does it understand things?
One of our great scientists, Stephen Hawking, said that “The development of full Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human...
A beginner's guide to global artificial intelligence policy
Neural's long-running Begginer's Guide To Artificial Intelligence gets a modern update discussing policy and regulation around the globe.
«Putin, speaking to Russian students in 2017, said “whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”»
How to ...?
How to Scale AI in Your Organization
Tech-savvy companies have started to adopt a new discipline: machine learning operations, or MLOps.
How to create space for ethics in AI
We can't wait for tech regulation and competition reform to ensure ethical AI. We need to move forward now.
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Think with AI: How to Use a Custom GPT as a Thinking Partner
Imagine having a thinking partner that’s not just smart but also deeply attuned to your specific needs. This is the promise of a custom GPT model: an AI companion tailored to you, which can help you…
This AI says it has feelings. It’s wrong. Right?
At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness?
A change in the machine learning landscape
AI models that use data where it exists rather than centralizing it require stronger privacy and security measures. Introducing the RoPPFL framework.
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies.
«The expansive role of these technologies in our daily lives gives for-profit corporations opportunities to exert control over more aspects of society, and that exposes us to the risks arising from their incentives and decisions.»
Short Articles
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Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task
Large language models like ChatGPT are immensely powerful — the first artificial intelligences to produce truly human-like content. They are already being used to provide customer service, write…
«It’s a wonderful irony: When AIs become more childlike, that’s when their abilities might truly explode, with world-changing ramifications.»
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
Writing with AI
When ChatGPT came out one year ago, we wanted to know whether and how it could be used for writing. We put it to the test.
«As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.»
The rise of the Model Designer
How designers should embrace shaping AI models.
Key takeaways from Airbnb’s winter redesign
Returns of good design, a new UI paradigm and the smart use of AI.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Artificial Intelligence.
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.
«ChatGPT is built on a neural network that was trained using billions of words of ordinary language.»
Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.
«Both were a response to core human anxieties: our mortality; the difficulty of judging whether we’re doing right or wrong; the unknowability of our life’s meaning and ultimate place in this universe — or the next one.»
Why AI Will Save the World
There's a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. But the real risk is losing the race to global AI technological superiority.
«Historically, every new technology that matters, from electric lighting to automobiles to radio to the Internet, has sparked a moral panic»
AI Canon | Andreessen Horowitz
A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.
«a curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI.»
Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’
It is not yet clear how the power and possibilities of AI will play out. Here are the best-case scenarios for how it might help us develop new drugs, give up dull jobs and live long, healthy lives
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