AI startup that raised $100M hid its problems behind Covid-19
Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.
Read more »MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI [audio]
DevOps for deep learning is well… different. You need to track both data and code, and you need to run multiple different versions of your code for long periods of time on accelerated hardware. Allegro AI is helping data scientists manage these workflows …
Read more »Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in AI
This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed as amongst the tec…
Read more »AI Writing Code Makes Software Engineers More Valuable
With the release of OpenAI’s GPT-3 the topic of AI writing code is hot again. GPT-3 is a natural language model that, given some examples, tries to predict appropriate text output for a given text input. Since code is just text, there’s the question of wh…
Read more »AI “Stop Button” Problem
How do you implement an on/off switch on a General Artificial Intelligence? Rob Miles explains the perils. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l7Is6vOAO…
Read more »AI Writing Code Makes Software Engineers More Valuable
With the release of OpenAI’s GPT-3 the topic of AI writing code is hot again. GPT-3 is a natural language model that, given some examples, tries to predict appropriate text output for a given text input. Since code is just text, there’s the question of wh…
Read more »New Text-to-Voice App Uses Real Human Voices and AI to Create Voiceovers
World’s first ever software turns any text into a real human voice.
Read more »Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI
As exciting and thrilling as it is to watch all the historic footage from the Apollo Moon landings, you have to admit, the quality is sometimes not all that great.
Read more »Brian Kernighan: Unix, C, Awk, AMPL, and Go Programming – AI Podcast
Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and …
Read more »Tim O’Reilly on AI: We’ve Already Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
There are many areas where governance frameworks and international agreements about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are needed. For example, there is an urgent need for internationally shared rules governing autonomous weapons and the use of facia…
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