The Best of The Gradient
7 most popular The Gradient articles, as voted by our community.
The Gradient on Automation
AI and the Future of Work: What We Know Today
One of the most important issues in contemporary societies is the impact of automation on human work. With AI becoming ever more advanced, what will its impact on automation be?
The Gradient on Machine Learning
Large Language Model: world models or surface statistics?
A mystery Large Language Models (LLM) are on fire, capturing public attention by their ability to provide seemingly impressive completions to user prompts (NYT coverage). They are a delicate…
The Gradient on NLP
NLP's Clever Hans Moment has Arrived
A review of Timothy Niven and Hung-Yu Kao, 2019: Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
The Gradient on Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning’s foundational flaw
By definition, learning from scratch is just about the least sample-efficient approach there can be.
The Gradient on Speech Recognition
The Future of Speech Recognition: Where Will We Be in 2030?
The last two years have been some of the most exciting and highly anticipated in Automatic Speech Recognition’s (ASR’s) long and rich history, as we saw multiple enterprise-level fully neural network…
New Datasets to Democratize Speech Recognition Technology
MLCommons.org introduces two new public datasets for speech recognition. The People’s Speech is the first large-scale, permissively licensed ASR dataset that includes diverse speech and environments.
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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019
Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and industry practitioners. From the early academic outputs…
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