Nieman Lab
Blame Craig: How Facebook’s AI bot explains the decline of the news industry
8 min · · Shared by 238, including Matteo Furia, Joshua Benton, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, Nieman Foundation, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Tactical Tech
Live Science
Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
4 min · · The green energy revolution is getting closer. · Shared by 479, including Howard Getson, Christo Meid, Dr. James Canton, Matteo Furia
Quanta Magazine
Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe
4 min · · In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies. · Shared by 225, including Chris Isak, Paul Graham, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Brian Ahier, Matteo Furia, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tim
IEEE
Can Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases?
· Robots that don't put up with inappropriate behavior may help bridge engineering's gender divide · Shared by 63, including Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman, Matteo Furia, Carla Gentry 🎶
The Guardian
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
7 min · · The psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner · Shared by 825, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, @grzewap@mastodon.social, ExApologist, Marcel Salathé, John Tasioulas, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Kyle Bunch, Bob E. Hayes, Matt Ridley, Gerd Leonhard, Martin Ford, Anita Leirfall, Simon Lee, John Nosta, Howard Getson, Nige Roberts-Willson, Dean Anthony Gratton, Matteo Furia
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Hidden in plain sight: The infrastructures that support artificial intelligence
3 min · · Artificial intelligence is supported by an infrastructure of hardware and software that is growing increasingly present in our lives, yet remains hidden in plain view. · Shared by 101, including Albert Ràfols, Nige Roberts-Willson, Howard Getson, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Iain Brown, PhD, Harold Sinnott, Prof. Sally Eaves, Matteo Furia, Andreas Staub, Marcus Borba, Terence Mills
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
4 min · · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is… · Shared by 701, including Martin Ford, John Koetsier, Chris Messina, Joshua Benton, Trent Walton, AI, Brian Solis, Sean Gardner, Lenore Skenazy, Bilal Zuberi, Paul Ekman, Christoph Trappe, Eric Topol, Kashmir Hill, Gerd Leonhard, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Tom D'Amico, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Guy Kawasaki, Nouriel Roubini
MIT Technology Review
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
3 min · · You’ve probably heard us say this countless times: GPT-3, the gargantuan AI that spews uncannily human-like language, is a marvel. It’s also largely a mirage. You can tell with a simple trick: Ask it… · Shared by 304, including Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin, Keerthi G, Bryan Onel, Andreas Staub, AI, Terence Mills, Vikram Dutt, Prof. Sally Eaves, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jim Marous 💯, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Gerd Leonhard, Stephan Woodtli, Nige Roberts-Willson, Brian Ahier, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Harold Sinnott, Ronald van Loon
MIT Technology Review
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
6 min · · “Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of examples it is trained on. · Shared by 506, including Bob E. Hayes, Pete Skomoroch, Francesco Corea, Iain Brown, PhD, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Martin Ford, Ronald van Loon, Gideonro, Terence Mills, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Mike Tamir, PhD, ExApologist, Nige Roberts-Willson, Antonio Vieira Santos, Robert Scoble, John Hagel, Andreas Staub, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Forbes
The Impact of AI on Journalism
4 min · · AIs write hundreds of thousands of the articles that are published by mainstream media outlets every week. What next? · Shared by 164, including Nrupal Akolkar, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Terence Mills, Gabriele, Nicolas Babin, Vincenzo Tremonte, Ronald van Loon, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matteo Furia, Kenneth Cukier
Quanta Magazine
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
9 min · · AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine. · Shared by 164, including Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Ouellette, Balaji, Christopher D. Long, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Terence Mills, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Matteo Furia, sircharlsxavier
MIT Technology Review
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
8 min · · Since OpenAI first described its new AI language-generating system called GPT-3 in May, hundreds of media outlets (including MIT Technology Review) have written about the system and its capabilities.… · Shared by 316, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Martin Ford, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Mike Tamir, PhD, Evan Selinger, Steven Pinker, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Rick King, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Oren Etzioni, Robert Lepenies, Iain Brown, PhD, Gary Marcus, Bob E. Hayes, Moritz Stefaner, Bill Johnston
scienceblog.com
What does the future of artificial intelligence mean for humans?
7 min · · The first question many people ask about artificial intelligence (AI) is, “Will it be good or bad?” The answer is … yes. Canadian company BlueDot used AI · Shared by 96, including Marcus Borba, ahg, Matteo Furia, Iain Brown, PhD
TechCrunch
AI is struggling to adjust to 2020
4 min · · Identifying the new context we’re asking the system to understand is the first step towards moving visual AI forward. Then we need more content. · Shared by 96, including Katja Evertz, Gabriele, Matteo Furia, Ste Davies, Bob E. Hayes, Iain Brown, PhD, Nige Roberts-Willson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Cindi Howson, Nicolas Babin
Ness Labs
GPT-3 and the future of human productivity
5 min · · The idea of artificial intelligence taking over the world is at least as old as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was published in 1818. Public figures such as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates have… · Shared by 132, including Katja Evertz, Matteo Furia, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Niklaus Gerber, Marc Garriga, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Jeremy Caplan, Ⓓarío Macchi
maraoz.com
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
4 min · · Summary: I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology.… · Shared by 280, including Mic King, Ric “el pony esponjoso”, Ouriel @Zengo, Renee DiResta, 🌴Marc Averitt🌴, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Josh Felser, Ross Hudgens, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Richard Joerges, Will Critchlow, Leo Polovets, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Chris Messina, Semil, Kirk Borne, Ryan Selkis 🪳, Craig Mod, mocho17™®© | إرادة قوية/Insha'Allah™®©, Dave McClure