Originally published in Nature.com, June 22, 2022. An international team of around 1,000 largely academic volunteers has tried to break big tech’s stranglehold on natural-language processing and reduce its harms. Trained with US$7-million-worth of publicly funded computing time, the BLOOM language model will rival in scale those made by firms Google and OpenAI, but will
Originally published in Towards Data Science, June 16, 2022. DALL·E 2 is the newest AI model by OpenAI. If you’ve seen some of its creations and think they’re amazing, keep reading to understand why you’re totally right...
Originally published in Scientific American, June 6, 2022. A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind’s much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems. To the average person, it must seem as if...
Originally published in MIT Management, May 26, 2022. Armed with scores of data, Spotify and Wayfair use machine learning algorithms to make customers happy. Here’s how. Whether you’re combing the online aisles at Wayfair to find a...
Originally published in Wired.com, May 5, 2022. OpenAI’s new system is adept at turning text into images. But researchers say it also reinforces stereotypes against women and people of color. MARCELO RINESI REMEMBERS what it was like to watch Jurassic...
Originally published in MIT Technology Review, May 23, 2022. Some worry that the chatter about these tools is doing the whole field a disservice. Earlier this month, DeepMind presented a new “generalist” AI model called Gato. The model...
Originally published in Nature, May 24, 2022. The patent system assumes that inventors are human. Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty. In 2020, a machine-learning algorithm helped researchers to...
Originally published by Xavier Amatrian, May 29, 2022. A few weeks back, Netflix announced that they were adding a two thumbs up option to give feedback on their content. At the same time I was being asked on Twitter...
Originally published in cohere.com, June 2, 2022. Cohere, OpenAI, and AI21 Labs have developed a preliminary set of best practices applicable to any organization developing or deploying large language models. Computers that can read and write are...
Originally published in Real Life Mag, May 12, 2022. Treating “the algorithm” as a kind of divine power misunderstands where algorithmic power comes from. When TikTok first began to amass media attention, a narrative about its “eerily...
