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OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
Paywall possible · 303 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…
If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
~14 min read · Paywall possible · 136 saves · Jul 24th · If language began with gestures around a campfire and secret signals on hunts, why did speech come to dominate communication?
Mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers—exposes complex roots of consciousness
3 min read · Paywall possible · 112 saves · Jul 29th · With a condition that’s “too strange for words,” patient can do mental math but cannot recognize numerals
The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
4 min read · Paywall possible · 106 saves · Jul 31st · At a typical annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the program is a parade of titles like “A Structured Variational Autoencoder…
Meet the AI that can write
2 min read · 64 saves · Jul 22nd · A new general language machine learning model is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do.
Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface
~12 min read · Paywall possible · 56 saves · Aug 4th · Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated thoughts?
GPT-3 A Hitchhiker's Guide
6 min read · 48 saves · Jul 20th · A balanced perspective on OpenAI's GPT-3. We summarize how the A.I. research community is thinking about Open AI's new language model.
Stop using ‘officer-involved shooting’
4 min read · 27 saves · Aug 7th · In the summer of 1972, The Independent Press-Telegram published a long profile of eight homicide detectives in the Long Beach Police Department. In it,…