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Tech Leaders Call for Pause in Creation of Giant AI ‘Digital Minds’
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts urge delay until world can be confident ‘effects will be positive and risks manageable’
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In The News
Google's top AI researchers have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact.
Scientists at DeepMind and Meta Press Fusion of AI, Biology
‘AlphaFold was a huge advance in protein structure prediction…which led to a whole new wave of using deep learning,’ says computational biologist David Baker of the University of Washington
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.
Applied use cases
AI chatbots making it harder to spot phishing emails, say experts
However, a basic flaw in some phishing attempts – poor spelling and grammar – is being rectified by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which can correct the errors that trip spam filters or alert human readers.
How science-fiction tropes shape military AI
By envisioning AI-enabled war as a world of Terminators, these repertoires may mask the more practical ways AI will broadly shape conflict and security in the near term.
Human babies still show more common sense than AI … for now
One way of thinking about this paper is it's asking to what extent do the algorithms and properties of these models capture important features of the human mind and brain.
Ethics
What will AI regulation look like for businesses?
Unlike food, medicine, and cars, we have yet to see clear regulations or laws to guide AI design in the US. Without standard guidelines, companies that design and develop ML models have historically worked off of their own perceptions of right and wrong.
Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer.
On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator. Unlike other AI art models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, Adobe says its Firefly engine has been trained solely on legal and ethical sources, making its output clear for use by commercial artists.
Robot recruiters: can bias be banished from AI hiring?
Businesses are increasingly turning to AI to help them hire employees but concerns have been raised about potential bias in the recruitment process.
Robotics
Trending News in the Robotics Field for March 2023
Spring is finally here, but what happened in the robotics field in March 2023? In the 37th installment of What's Trending in Robotics News, we uncover the breaking developments, hot issues, and trending stories in the world of robotics over the last month.
Resilient bug-sized robots keep flying even after wing damage
Bumblebees are clumsy fliers. It is estimated that a foraging bee bumps into a flower about once per second, which damages its wings over time.
Educational robots providing high-quality and inclusive education for all
Robot tutors have started taking over the classrooms to support educators in enhancing children’s development and learning.
Research
How can deep learning models be poisoned?
Training datasets for deep learning models involves billions of data samples, curated by crawling the internet.
Post: What Will Transformers Transform?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level.
research | PRESTO – A multilingual dataset for parsing realistic task-oriented dialogues
In an effort to advance research in parsing such realistic and complex utterances, we are launching a new dataset called PRESTO, a multilingual dataset for parsing realistic task-oriented dialogues.
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