Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
‘Godfather of AI’ Quits Google, Talks About Dangers of the Technology
May 2nd, 2023Via: The Verge: Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. Hinton recently quit his job at Google in order to speak freely about the […]
AI-Generated Pizza Commercial
April 26th, 2023AI generated video is mostly nightmare fuel at this point. But this… I laughed so hard, I nearly injured myself. Via: tom’s HARDWARE: In the last few months, we’ve seen how large language models such as ChatGPT can generate text copy, how image generators like Stable Diffusion can create pictures on demand and even how […]
Alphabet CEO’s Pay Soars to $226 Million on Huge Stock Award as Thousands Fired
April 22nd, 2023Via: Bloomberg: The pay package awarded to Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai soared to $226 million in 2022, boosted by a triennial stock grant, making him one of the world’s highest-paid corporate leaders. … In January, Alphabet started cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, following months of other measures […]
Google DeepMind
April 20th, 2023Via: 9to5 Google: DeepMind is regarded to be one of the top machine learning and artificial intelligence research labs. After being an Alphabet company for the past several years, it’s now being folded in to form “Google DeepMind.” The new unit encompasses DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research. Collective accomplishments from the past […]
OpenAssistant Released
April 16th, 2023That didn’t take long. I thought it would take at least several months for them to attain something GPT3.5-like. Nope. Via: Yannic Kilcher:
Musk Incorporates X.AI
April 14th, 2023Via: The Verge: Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, listed as […]
What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
April 14th, 2023Via: cohere.ai: So why would a transformer model build text word by word? One answer is, because that works really well. A more satisfying one is that because transformers are so incredibly good at keeping track of the context, that the next word they pick is exactly what it needs to keep going with an […]
NYPD Reboots Cyborg Police Dog After Backlash
April 11th, 2023Via: New York Daily News: Digidog, the NYPD robot pooch, is back and department leaders promise it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the $74,000 robot canine program landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights […]
“Beware of the trillion dimensional space… There is a lot that you can do with a trillion parameters.”
April 7th, 2023“There is some intelligence in this system.” “It could absolutely build an internal representation of the world and act on it…” Also, later in the talk, he demonstrates hilarious basic math failures. Via: Sebastien Bubeck: Related: Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” We need to tell people ChatGPT will […]
ChatGPT Comes for Low Wage Natural Language Processing Classifier Jobs
April 7th, 2023Via: arXiv: Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and degree of complexity, the tasks may be conducted by crowd-workers on platforms such as MTurk as well as trained annotators, such as research assistants. Using […]
