9 Best Articles in 2021
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 980 saves · 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
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 727 saves · Jan 5th · 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.
Vulture
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Vulture
~16 min read · 430 saves · 2020-02-20 · Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
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395 saves · 2020-05-13 · 1. psychiatry or mental illness as distinguished from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other forms of mental disturbance because of the impairment of the normal development of consciousness. 2. a…
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
MIT Technology Review
342 saves · 2020-07-20 · “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 the response on social media in the last few…
The Pudding
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
The Pudding
7 min read · 310 saves · 2020-07-16 · An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
The Cut
If You Can Say It, You Can Feel It
The Cut
8 min read · 307 saves · 2020-02-03 · Some scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
MIT Technology Review
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
MIT Technology Review
7 min read · 302 saves · 2020-08-22 · 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.…
MIT Technology Review
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 300 saves · 2020-09-04 · Back in July, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human. People started showing off how GPT-3…
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OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 727 saves · Jan 5th · 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.
The New York Times
How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon
The New York Times
4 min read · 76 saves · 2020-12-29 · Elisa Gabbert · Just like line breaks and spacing decisions, typographical marks can shape how a reader hears the language.
VentureBeat
Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model
VentureBeat
3 min read · 41 saves · Jan 12th · Kyle Wiggers · Researchers at Google claim to have trained a natural language model containing over a trillion parameters.
Smithsonian Magazine
Who Invented the Alphabet?
Smithsonian Magazine
5 min read · 37 saves · Jan 5th · New scholarship points to a paradox of historic scope: Our writing system was devised by people who couldn’t read
BuzzFeed News
How 2020 Changed Language And The Way We Talk
BuzzFeed News
5 min read · 26 saves · 2020-12-26 · The BuzzFeed News copydesk is looking at three specific things that shaped our language in 2020: the coronavirus pandemic, the racial justice movement, and the QAnon mass delusion and militant groups.
The New York Times
Prioritizing Human Perspectives in Natural Language Processing
The New York Times
1 min read · 17 saves · 2020-12-21 · We’re using an “editor-in-the-loop” model to group incoming reader questions and match them with relevant answers from reporters.
The Guardian
Bonjour Europe: Britons are turning to learning languages like never before
The Guardian
2 min read · 14 saves · 2020-12-26 · James Tapper · French is one of the most popular choices, as 10% of adults take up a language online during lockdown
