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…)

The process of checking nuclear reactors for cracks is vulnerable to human error, but a new AI system could change that. (more…)

A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans. (more…)

Visa hassles made another AI conference move to Ethiopia, rather than deal with Canadian officials. (more…)

AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. (more…)