Google has an ambitious plan to use artificial intelligence to weed out abusive comments and defang online mobs. The technology isn’t up to that challenge—but it will help the Internet’s best-behaving communities function better. (more…)
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Researchers at Google Brain have open-sourced the Switch Transformer, a natural-language processing (NLP) AI model. The model scales up to 1.6T parameters and improves training time up to 7x compared to the T5 NLP model, with comparable accuracy. (more…)
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Artificial Intelligence: Does Consciousness Matter?Consciousness plays an important role in debates around the mind-body problem, the controversy over strong versus weak artificial intelligence (AI), and bioethics. Strikingly, however, it is not prominent... (more…)
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A look at trends from 100 weeks of AI news, and AI-generated AI news snippets! (more…)
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No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (more…)
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