9 Best Articles in 2020
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 929 saves · Sep 8th · 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…
Vulture
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Vulture
~16 min read · 411 saves · Feb 20th · Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate…
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neuropsychologism: this word does not exist
thisworddoesnotexist.com
389 saves · May 13th · 1. psychiatry or mental illness as distinguished from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other forms of mental disturbance because of the impairment of the normal…
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
MIT Technology Review
336 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…
The Cut
If You Can Say It, You Can Feel It
The Cut
8 min read · 304 saves · Feb 3rd · 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 · Aug 22nd · 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…
MIT Technology Review
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 296 saves · Sep 4th · 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…
The Pudding
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
The Pudding
7 min read · 290 saves · Jul 16th · An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
maraoz.com
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
maraoz.com
4 min read · 276 saves · Jul 18th · Summary: I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable…
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Translating lost languages using machine learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2 min read · 122 saves · Oct 21st · MIT researchers have created a machine learning system that aims to help linguists decipher lost languages.
Aeon+Psyche
Touch is a language we cannot afford to forget
Aeon+Psyche
~11 min read · 86 saves · Oct 26th · The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?
Facebook AI
The first AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English data
Facebook AI
8 min read · 71 saves · Oct 19th · Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English…
Inc.
People Who Avoid These 3 Common Words Have Very High Emotional Intelligence
Inc.
3 min read · 67 saves · Oct 10th · It's not that it's wrong. It's that I think you can do better.
The New York Times
The Genius of Spelling Bee
The New York Times
~16 min read · 65 saves · Oct 16th · Deb Amlen · The game’s path to success was paved with a beehive in the Sunday magazine, solvers waking up at 3 a.m. to play and a…
