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Must read: the 100 most cited AI papers in 2022
Using data from the Zeta Alpha platform combined with careful human curation (more about methodology below), we've gathered the top cited papers in AI from 2022, 2021, and 2020, and analyzed authors' affiliations, and country. This allows us to rank these by R&D impact rather than pure publication volume.
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10 Amazing Machine Learning Visualizations You Should Know in 2023
Data visualization plays an important role in machine learning. Data visualization use cases in machine learning include: hyperparameter tuning, model performance evaluation, validating model assumptions, finding outliers, selecting the most important features, identifying patterns and correlations between features.
The new world of AI chatbots like ChatGPT
The large tech companies – Google, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft – are in a race to introduce new artificial intelligence systems and what are called chatbots, that you can have conversations with and are more sophisticated than Siri or Alexa.
The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained
The new Bing uses generative AI in its web search function to return results that appear as longer, written answers culled from various internet sources instead of a list of links to relevant websites.
Applied use cases
Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse
Those tenets also led her to become curator of the Misalignment Museum, a temporary exhibition about the future of artificial intelligence that opens today in San Francisco, ground zero for recent excitement about generative AI and chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
While courts still use fax machines, law firms are using AI to tailor arguments for judges
This column is an opinion by Robyn Schleihauf, a writer and a lawyer based in Dartmouth, N.S. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a suite of changes in the justice system, bringing things like virtual hearings to reality, but as we move back to in-person appearances, some courts and administrative decision.
The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained
The world’s first generative AI-powered search engine is here, and it’s in love with you. Or it thinks you’re kind of like Hitler. Or it’s gaslighting you into thinking it’s still 2022, a more innocent time when generative AI seemed more like a cool party trick than a powerful technology about to be unleashed on a world that might not be ready for it.
Ethics
ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
Artificial intelligence's newest sensation — the gabby chatbot-on-steroids ChatGPT — is sending European rulemakers back to the drawing board on how to regulate AI.
A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism
For the purposes of journalism, they can create vast amounts of material – words, pictures, sounds and videos – very quickly. As the MIT Technology Review puts it, large language model chatbots are “notorious bullshitters”.
AI industry is out of control, requires regulation, Duke researcher warns
As an artificial intelligence researcher, Cynthia Rudin has watched the recent, explosive growth of the technology with a keen, concerned eye.
Robotics
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
Further Reading Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft According to Google, when given a high-level command, such as "bring me the rice chips from the drawer," PaLM-E can generate a plan of action for a mobile robot platform with an arm (developed by Google Robotics).
A list of robotics companies that are hiring
Besides, if you’re unable to find work, positive macroeconomic trends are cold comfort. Here in the U.S., your occupation is invariably the second thing people ask you about after getting your name. Now some good news: Companies are hiring. Simply put: It’s a bad time to be looking for jobs, but a...
What is the hype cycle for robotics?
So, here’s where I think robotics technologies really fit on the Gartner Hype Cycle: Innovation trigger Voice interfaces for practical applications of robots Foundational models applied to robotics Peak of inflated expectations Large Language models - although likely to progress very quickly...
Research
Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages
In “Google USM: Scaling Automatic Speech Recognition Beyond 100 Languages”, we demonstrate that utilizing a large unlabeled multilingual dataset to pre-train the encoder of the model and fine-tuning on a smaller set of labeled data enables us to recognize under-represented languages.
FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps Purva Tendulkar · Dídac Surís · Carl Vondrick FLEX is a generative model that generates full-body avatars grasping 3D objects in a 3D environment. FLEX leverages the existence of pre-trained prior models for: Full-Body Pose - VPoser (trained on the...
Ed Grefenstette: Language, Semantics, Cohere
Before his time in industry, Ed worked at Oxford’s Department of Computer Science as a lecturer and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College. Ed also received his MSc and DPhil from Oxford’s Computer Science Department.
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