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Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know
Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
~13 min read · Jun 22nd · and why (a) large language models are so prone to fabricating misinformation and (b) DALL-E is no super-genius
Reader View · Shared by 64, including Andreas Staub, Yves Mulkers, Bob E. Hayes, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem
NPR
The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul
NPR
4 min read · Jun 16th · The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.
Reader View · Shared by 77, including Iain Brown, PhD
future.com
7 Techniques for Building Reliable AI Models
future.com
7 min read · Jun 3rd · As enterprises grow their AI footprints, they must pay attention to data quality and real-world conditions to ensure what works in the lab works in production.
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Bob E. Hayes
Hustle_says
Text-to-image AI generators, explained
Hustle_says
1 min read · Jun 14th · Text-to-image AI generators are a powerful new technology that the world might not be ready for.
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The Verge
How DALL-E could power a creative revolution
The Verge
9 min read · Jun 10th · Every few years, a technology comes along that splits the world neatly into before and after.
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Paul Roetzer, Brian Ahier, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, AI, Jordi Serrano
The Atlantic
When AI Becomes a Ouija Board
The Atlantic
6 min read · Jun 14th · Google’s “sentient” chatbot shows us where we’re headed—and it’s not good.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Arielle Pardes, Amy Jo Kim, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt
The Atlantic
Artificial Consciousness Is Boring
The Atlantic
6 min read · Jun 19th · The reality of AI is something harder to comprehend.
Reader View · Shared by 117, including Iain Brown, PhD, Jason Baldridge, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Bob E. Hayes, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Merkstatt, Gerd Leonhard
WIRED
'Brian and Charles' Imagines an Optimistic Future for AI
WIRED
2 min read · Jun 20th · Cowriter Chris Hayward finds most real-life robots terrifying. But if the future looks like the film's sentient droid, he says, "we'll be fine."
Shared by 9, including David Guttenfelder
Noema Magazine
What AI Can Tell Us About Intelligence
Noema Magazine
10 min read · Jun 16th · Can deep learning systems learn to manipulate symbols? The answers might change our understanding of how intelligence works and what makes humans unique.
Reader View · Shared by 123, including Terence Mills, Paul Roetzer, Kevin Mitchell, Bob E. Hayes, Yann LeCun, andre hollstein
Singularity Hub
In Its Greatest Biology Feat Yet, AI Unlocks the Complex Proteins Guarding Our DNA
Singularity Hub
4 min read · Jun 14th · Only specific molecules are allowed to enter and leave the cell nucleus. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) regulate this traffic.
Reader View · Shared by 57, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Brian Ahier
Singularity Hub
If Artificial Intelligence Were to Become Sentient, How Would We Know?
Singularity Hub
3 min read · Jun 16th · Our understanding of sentience and consciousness in AI systems might be limited by our own particular brand of intelligence.
Reader View · Shared by 85, including Iain Brown, PhD, Brian Ahier
justinehsmith.substack.com
No Minds Without Other Minds
justinehsmith.substack.com
~19 min read · Jun 20th · On Artificial Intelligence and the Nature of Animal Consciousness
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DarkReading
How AI Is Useful — and Not Useful — for Cybersecurity
DarkReading
3 min read · Jun 10th · AI works best when security professionals and AI are complementing each other.
Shared by 54, including Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, AI, Thomas Pleil
tag.co
Artificial Intelligence and Weight Loss: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Losing Weight Better
tag.co
2 min read · Jun 19th · Tag Artificial Intelligence and Weight Loss: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Losing Weight Better
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The Indian Express
How an AI-based technology can make quick offside decisions at the FIFA World Cup
The Indian Express
3 min read · Jun 17th · The semi-automated VAR, an artificial-intelligence-based technology, is likely to be deployed at the World Cup later this year.
Reader View · Shared by 88
The Washington Post
This AI model tries to re-create the mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Washington Post
Jun 14th · The model, called Ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is based on 27 years of Ginsburg’s legal writings and speeches on the Supreme Court.
Shared by 122, including Martin Ford, Bob E. Hayes, Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, Harold Sinnott 📲 #SiemensAtCollision, ipfconline, Iain Brown, PhD, Emily M. Bender
The New Statesman
"AI is invisible – that’s part of the problem," says Wendy Hall
The New Statesman
7 min read · Jun 15th · The leading computer scientist and acting chair of the AI Council on challenging perceptions around artificial intelligence.
Reader View · Shared by 90
news.northwestern.edu
AI detects autism speech patterns across different languages
news.northwestern.edu
3 min read · Jun 16th · Breakthrough offers possible clues to diagnosis, understanding of condition
Reader View · Shared by 90
euronews
What does the future of shopping with AI look like?
euronews
2 min read · Jun 13th · The retail experience is evolving with artificial intelligence (AI) changing how items can be bought and sold.
Reader View · Shared by 107, including Gerd Leonhard, Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, Iain Brown, PhD, ipfconline, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
Stack Overflow
Ethical AI isn’t just how you build it, it's how you use it
Stack Overflow
5 min read · May 31st · Ethics isn’t just how we build AI systems, it's about what we let them be used for.
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The text-to-image revolution, explained
youtube.com
Jun 1st · How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush.Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Beginning in ...
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Why it’s time for “data-centric artificial intelligence”
MIT Sloan School of Management
2 min read · Jun 7th · Machine learning pioneer Andrew Ng argues that focusing on the quality of data fueling AI systems will help unlock its full power.
Reader View · Shared by 298, including Nicolas Babin, ipfconline, Michael Fisher, Jim Marous 💯, AI, Terence Mills, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺, Iain Brown, PhD, Ronald van Loon, Brian Ahier, Bob E. Hayes, Dr. Sally Eaves #AISummit, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Harold Sinnott 📲 #SiemensAtCollision, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Kelly Hungerford 🌻, Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, Yves Mulkers
Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
Noam Chomsky and GPT-3
Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
9 min read · May 21st · Are large language models a good model of *human* language?
Reader View · Shared by 294, including Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Bob E. Hayes, Nige Willson, Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza, AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, Steven Pinker, Elena Neira, Albert Ràfols, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Brian T. Edwards
The Washington Post
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The Washington Post
9 min read · Jun 11th · The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.
Reader View · Shared by 276, including Steve Silberman, Yves Mulkers, Mathieu von Rohr, Mathew Ingram, Aron Pilhofer, Casey Newton, Iain Brown, PhD, Akshat Rathi, Taylor Lorenz @ VidCon, Oren Etzioni, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Amjad Masad ⠕, Jeff Jarvis, Joanna J Bryson, Eric Topol, AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, dreig (Dolors Reig), Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Paul Roetzer, Lynn Cherny
Tomas Pueyo
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo
~18 min read · Jun 7th · What do these have in common: Elon’s Twitter, ants, General von Moltke’s strategy, brains, AI, prediction markets, and Wikipedia? The answer shows the path to the future of democracy.
Reader View · Shared by 268, including Albert Ràfols, Ines Bieler
ZDNet
AI: The pattern is not in the data, it's in the machine
ZDNet
6 min read · May 29th · No, the patterns computers create are not an inherent property of data, they are an emergent property of the structure of the program itself.
Reader View · Shared by 231, including Bob E. Hayes, AI, Howard Getson, Ronald van Loon, Jansnet, Nicolas Babin, Kelly Hungerford 🌻, Ines Bieler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Is diversity the key to collaboration? New AI research suggests so
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 min read · May 26th · MIT Lincoln Laboratory research suggests training an artificial intelligence model with mathematically "diverse" teammates improves its ability to collaborate with other AI it has never worked with…
Reader View · Shared by 223, including Ines Bieler, Nicolas Babin, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
BBC News (World)
How artificial intelligence 'blew up' tennis
BBC News (World)
4 min read · May 31st · Coaches now have powerful tools which can find patterns in play that humans would struggle to see.
Reader View · Shared by 219, including Tim, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Yves Mulkers, Nicolas Babin, Tactical Tech, Sean Gardner, ipfconline
cajundiscordian.medium.com
Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
cajundiscordian.medium.com
20+ min read · Jun 12th · What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off the…
Reader View · Shared by 217, including AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, Mic King, Gabriele, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Power, Chamath Palihapitiya, Alexander Seifert, David Wessel, hardmaru, Dave Kellogg, Ian Schlakman, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Paolo Pedercini, Hugh Howey, Pippa Malmgren, Francesco Marconi, дэн, Mark Birch, AWS Startup Advocate
Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
Nonsense on Stilts
Gary Marcus 🇺🇦
4 min read · Jun 12th · No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
Reader View · Shared by 177, including Jeff Jarvis, Nige Willson, Barry Schwartz, Vicki Davis, Mitch Kapor, Mark Little, Bob E. Hayes, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Steven Pinker, Kara Swisher, Bjorn Larsen
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machinelearnings.co
The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
machinelearnings.co
20+ min read · From 2017 · Machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) have seized Tech mindshare in a way few topics have in recent memory.
Reader View · Shared by 5210, including Gabriele, Mike Ivars, Pete Skomoroch, Thomas Power, Brent Summers, Kris Fannin, Chris Messina, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC, Klaus Eck, Frank Cieslik, Werner Vogels, Kenneth Kalmer, Harpreet Singh, Herbert Bay, DonDahlmann, Fabricio Teixeira, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Nils Hitze, Howard Getson, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦
r2d3.us
A visual introduction to machine learning
r2d3.us
5 min read · From 2015 · What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
20+ min read · From 2017 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
Reader View · Shared by 1617, including Kris Fannin, Josep M. Ganyet, Parin Vachhani, Courtney Bolton ★, Casey Smith, Mark Bao, Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Christoph Magnussen, Ian M Calvert, FANZO 🧢 NFT 365, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Mark Kaigwa, #bottish, Herbert Bay, Gideonro, Ron McIntyre, Ricky Yean, Marko Saric, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC
OpenAI
DALL·E 2
OpenAI
1 min read · Apr 6th · DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 2020-09-08 · We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
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OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 2021-01-05 · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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The New York Times
The Great A.I. Awakening
The New York Times
From 2016 · Writing for The New York Times Magazine, Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s article breaks down a complex, multilayered story of artificial intelligence into an absorbing, detailed read. The story of Google Translate involves many prestigious players, who all worked together to create an impressively improved translation tool in far less time than originally expected. This is a tale of the meeting of many minds to create a single truly powerful artificial one that will have future uses beyond translating from one language to another.
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freeCodeCamp.org
Want to know how Deep Learning works? Here’s a quick guide for everyone.
freeCodeCamp.org
6 min read · From 2017 · Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are some of the hottest topics right now.
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cold-takes.com
"Most important century" series: roadmap
cold-takes.com
5 min read · Apr 1st · This is an outline of how each piece in the "most important century series relates to the overall argument. I think it's useful to read through this before reading through the series, to get a sense…
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