I am in the customer service outsourcing business, so as a pithy Hacker News commenter once noted, I have a slightly biased opinion on these matters.  That said, I am also an avid technologist and...

Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-547260463 Scientists at SONY CSL Research Lab have created the first-ever entire songs composed by Artifici... (more…)

Researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) recently made an unexpected discovery while trying to improve chatbots. The bots — known as “dialog agents” — were creating their own language. Using machine learning algorithms, di... (more…)

Websites churn out content, often advancing false narratives, to saturate with adverts, says anti-misinformation firm... (more…)

Autoregressive transformers are spectacular models for short sequences but scale poorly to long sequences such as high-resolution images, podcasts, code, or books. We proposed Megabyte, a multi-scale decoder architecture that enables end-to-end differenti... (more…)