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China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
20+ min read · Paywall possible · 348 saves · Jul 29th · Ross Andersen · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
Paywall possible · 288 saves · Jul 20th · “Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up…
AI-Generated Text Is the Scariest Deepfake of All
2 min read · Paywall possible · 179 saves · Jul 31st · Synthetic video and audio seemed pretty bad. Synthetic writing—ubiquitous and undetectable—will be far worse.
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
8 min read · 134 saves · Jul 18th · GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
DeepMind’s Newest AI Programs Itself to Make All the Right Decisions
3 min read · 115 saves · Jul 26th · Jason Dorrier · In a new paper, DeepMind describes an AI algorithm that was able to discover a critical programming rule in deep reinforcement learning from scratch.
GPT-3 and the future of human productivity
4 min read · 110 saves · Jul 22nd · 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…
AI Is All the Rage. So Why Aren’t More Businesses Using It?
2 min read · Paywall possible · 95 saves · Jul 30th · Will Knight · A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for…
The problems AI has today go back centuries
2 min read · Paywall possible · 91 saves · Jul 31st · In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil…
How AI Can Improve Financial Analytics
4 min read · 89 saves · Jul 23rd · 70% of all financial services firms are using machine learning to predict cash flow events, fine-tune credit scores and detect fraud according to a…
GPT-3: The First Artificial General Intelligence?
~13 min read · Paywall possible · 86 saves · Jul 23rd · Julien Lauret · When historians look back, will they single 2020 as the year AGI was invented?