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 can play Atari video games, caption images, chat, and stack blocks with a real robot arm, the Alphabet-owned
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 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...
Originally published in The Verge, April 30, 2022. Baidu and Pony.ai have been given permission to operate their autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Beijing, a first for robotaxi services in China (via CNBC). Although both companies now no longer need...
Originally published in SiliconANGLE, April 4, 2022. Microsoft Corp. today revealed how it has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop and test artificial intelligence models in orbit...
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