One of the harder to observe effects of COVID-19 has been its impact on AI models. For all the advantages AI offers, AI applications are not infallible. Arguably the most common way machine learning models fail over time is when the data they were trained... (more…)

Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they're likely going to get a lot worse this year. (more…)

DeepMind expects reinforcement learning will lead to replicating human cognitive abilities, achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). (more…)

As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. We analyze the emissions of several AI systems (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) relative to those of humans completing the same tasks... (more…)

Arguing against the arguments for the concept of the singularity. ...