Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company’s AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities. (more…)

Ahead of the Hot Chips 2020 conference this week, photonics chip startup Lightmatter detailed its forthcoming test chip accelerator hardware. (more…)

It seems that the more ground-breaking deep learning models are in AI, the more massive they get. This summer’s most buzzed-about model for natural language processing, GPT-3, is a perfect example. To reach the levels of accuracy and speed to write like a... (more…)

The company is looking to improve the way AI and humans get along, but it says we should think differently about how we ask machines to explain themselves. (more…)

Nearly 30 years ago, Hinton’s belief in neural networks was contrarian. Now it’s hard to find anyone who disagrees, he says. (more…)