DeepMind’s astounding new ‘Gato’ AI makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI
DeepMind just unveiled a new AI system called Gato that makes OpenAI’s GPT-3 look like a child’s toy. But are we any closer to AGI?
Read more »Clearview AI Says It’s Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools
The company revealed it’s working with a U.S. company selling visitor management systems to schools within hours of a horrific school shooting.
Read more »Is AI Progress Impossible to Predict?
People seem to be continually surprised, over and over again, by the new capabilities of big machine learning models, such as PaLM, DALL-E, Chinchilla, SayCan, Socratic Models, Flamingo, and Gato (al…
Read more »Online Course (Pre-Release) – Full-Stack Low-Code AI with Fastai, AWS, & Bubble
Learn everything you need to know to quickly launch an AI-powered Low-Code SaaS.
Read more »Game AI vs. Industrial AI vs. Academic AI
I have been teaching artificial intelligence related classes since 2015. I have also consulted industry for AI. Recently, I have also started teaching AI in digital games. What I can say that, even though the basics are the same, the AI for these three ar…
Read more »DeepMind’s generalist AI, Gato: A non-technical explainer
SUMMARY DeepMind’s recent paper,A Generalist Agent, catalyzed a wave of discourse regarding the speed at which current artificial intelligence systems are improving and the risks posed by these incre…
Read more »AI in Business: Can Ethics Be Reduced to Metrics?
As companies address ethical concerns about AI systems, they run the risk of glossing over complex questions.
Read more »A Devotion to Emotion: Hume AI’s Alan Cowen on Intersection of AI and Empathy
Can machines experience emotions? They might, according to Hume AI, an AI research lab and technology company that aims to “ensure artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.” So how can AI genuinely understand how we a…
Read more »Swupnil Sahai and his co-founder serve an ace with AI-powered SwingVision
SwingVision, the performance-tracking iPhone app, looks to make tennis more accessible than ever.
Read more »Research integrity could be at risk due to AI generated imagery
A small team of researchers at Xiamen University has expressed alarm at the ease with which bad actors can now generate fake AI imagery for use in research projects. They have published an opinion piece outlining their concerns in the journal Patterns.
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