A new Cornell-designed algorithm inspired by mammal brains both sheds light on how the brain works and, applied to a computer chip, learns patterns better than existing machine learning models. (more…)

No detectors "reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."... (more…)

I’m going to start calling these news roundup posts, Significant Bits. So, welcome to the first installment of Significant Bits! The global chip shortage: what if it’s a slow-motion crash? Not only is the PS5 is out of stock, but now cars are being shippe... (more…)

Fundamentally, Bitcoin is software eating the Fed-Bank-Retail ecosystem. The Fed governance is replaced by code. The banking utility is… (more…)

One of my favorite ways to mess around with text-generating AI is to see what it does with new games that didn't exist on the internet back when its training data was collected. OpenAI's GPT-3 models were trained with data that cut off in late 2019 which ... (more…)