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The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images
Most of the images that OpenAI and Google make public are cherry-picked. Scroll down the Imagen website—past the dragon fruit wearing a karate belt and the small cactus wearing a hat and sunglasses—to the section on societal impact and you get this: “While a subset of our training data was filtered...
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Research
AI2 researchers win ‘Test-of-Time’ award that honors long-lasting influence for AI-related papers
This week, researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, CEO Oren Etzioni and research scientist Jesse Dodge received the ACL’s 10-year Test-of-Time Paper Award for two separate papers published in 2012. Etzioni, along with a team that includes AI2’s Director of Engineering Michael...
Pushing Boundaries with Generative Artmaking
Generative models compose songs, create paintings, produce videos, and write text documents. To shed light on perceptions of AI as a tool and collaborator in the artistic process, or perhaps even a competitor to human artists, the Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction +...
Chain of Thought Imitation with Procedure Cloning
Imitation learning aims to extract high-performance policies from logged demonstrations of expert behavior. It is common to frame imitation learning as a supervised learning problem in which one fits a function approximator to the input-output mapping exhibited by the logged demonstrations (input...
Applied use cases
Artificial intelligence predicts patients’ race from their medical images
Using both private and public datasets, the team found that AI can accurately predict self-reported race of patients from medical images alone. “These results were initially confusing, because the members of our research team could not come anywhere close to identifying a good proxy for this task,”...
Is your face gay? Conservative? Criminal? AI researchers are asking the wrong questions
Additionally, the ensuing global effort to cripple Russian access to international markets calls into question the viability of current contracts, government licensing, and financial instruments involved in Russia’s nuclear exports. While one section of the order (“new investment in the energy...
How we learned to break down barriers to machine learning
One way of tackling the divide here, in addition to simply increasing access, is changing the way that technologists communicate about complex topics like AI/ML to regular folks. "I understand that, as technologists, a lot of times we just like to build cool stuff, right?" Dr. Sephus said.
Market News
Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered coding tool, will be free for students
Available as a downloadable extension, Copilot is powered by an AI model called Codex that’s trained on billions of lines of public code to suggest additional lines of code and functions given the context of existing code. Copilot will adapt to the edits developers make, matching particular coding...
Imagen
unprecedented photorealism × deep level of language understanding Google Research, Brain Team We present Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding. T5), pretrained on text-only corpora, are surprisingly effective...
Curated list of awesome lists
Contents Courses Programming Free Content Code Videos Learning Organizations Journals Competitions Misc Courses CS50’s Intro to Artificial Intelligence - This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence MIT: Intro to Deep Learning - A seven day...
Ethics
AI’s trolley problem can lead us to surprising conclusions
A new alliance is ensuring responsible global AI, helping improve the lives of billions Autonomous machines and decision-making can lead to potentially fatal errors. Deaths occurring due to robotic errors produce moral dilemmas, much like "the trolley problem." Eventually, these autonomous machines...
Building a culture of pioneering responsibly
How to ensure we benefit society with the most impactful technology being developed today As chief operating officer of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs, I spend a lot of time thinking about how our technologies impact people’s lives – and how we can ensure that our efforts...
World Building Contest
| Data Point: Global post-pandemic spending in research and development funding reaches 3.5 trillion U.S. dollars, reinvigorating scientific research and enabling new inter-disciplinary and international collaborations Year 2024 Event 1: Self-supervised learning is demonstrated to be effective in...
Robotics
A Compliance–Reactance Framework for Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction
The following abbreviations will be used in equations and probability expressions: perception (perc), comprehension (compr), according to cue (acc), contrary to cue (cont), compliant (compl), reactant (reac). This example illustrates how the same cue (the robot attempts to take precedence) can...
Industry Forum
Prior to leading the Industrial Automation Group, Greg was the President of the Semiconductor Test Business, Teradyne’s largest operating segment. Dev Singh serves as director of business development for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), where he is currently the global head of Robotics and...
Two fully-funded PhD studentships on social robots, consciousness and value-aware AI
The AIRO group (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, airo.ugent.be) of IDLab-imec (idlab.technology) at Ghent University are excited to be offering two fully-funded PhD studentships to help with our research on social robotics under the supervision of Tony Belpaeme. Research Social robots are...
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