In the News
Need a New Topic for Thanksgiving Dinner? Explain AI to Anyone...and Make it Fun!
Thanksgiving dinners are known to be the stage of controversial discussions: religion and politics are amongst the conversation topics that make these family gatherings awkward for some...and dreadful for many.
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In The News
Should You Let AI Plan Your Thanksgiving Dinner?
While AI recipe generation has come a long way, it won’t outdo humans anytime soon
This AI Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores—and Was Built in Just Three Days
AI is on a tear. Machines can speak, write, play games, and generate original images, video, and music. But as AI’s capabilities have grown, so too have its algorithms.
New Records for the Biggest and Smallest AI Computers
Nvidia H100 and Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon debut on ML Perf training benchmarks
Applied use cases
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.
A far-sighted approach to machine learning
New system can teach a group of cooperative or competitive AI agents to find an optimal long-term solution.
An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms
The company pays workers in India and Costa Rica to review warehouse camera footage for just hundreds of dollars a month.
Ethics
Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators
With the increasing number of AI image generator softwares, many users have been generating porn images - in particular with Stable DIffusion. Ethnicists wonder about the unwanted consequences it couls have - in particularly for marginalized groups,.
‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots?
From armed robot dogs to target-seeking drones, the use of artificial intelligence in warfare presents ethical dilemmas that urgently need addressing.
Expanding humanity's moral circle, with Jacy Reese Anthis
The conversation concludes with some ideas about how various techniques can be used to boost personal effectiveness, and considers different ways in which people can relate to the EA community.
Robotics
Humanoid Robots & Avatars Are Arriving
How will your life and human society change as humanoid robots and robot avatars come online in the decade ahead?
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company's history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. O
Self-organization: What robotics can learn from amoebae
The new model can help nanotechnologists design such robot systems by describing the collective properties of robot swarms.
Research
How to Annotate Radiology Data for Machine Learning on V7
Find out how to label CT/MR scans, X-rays, and other modalities used in radiology. Learn how to use AI labeling tools for segmentation or lesion detection.
🌅 The Era of Foundation Models is Here
The term ‘foundation models’ is becoming one of the hottest buzzwords in the machine learning (ML) lingo. The era of foundation models is definitely upon us!
How do Authors’ Perceptions about their Papers Compare with Co-authors’ Perceptions and Peer-review Decisions?
Given the significant disagreement across reviewers and across reviewer panels, this article wonders how do author perceptions about their submitted papers match up to the outcomes of the peer-review process and perceptions of other authors?
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