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AI & ML

Why Meta’s Giant Science-focused AI Model Only Survived 3 Days

Illuminating about the limitations of language-based AI models: Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million examples of scientific articles, websites,

The Diverging Future of AI Images in Stock Image Businesses

There's an interesting divide happening between Getty and Shutterstock, two massive stock image businesses, with regards to AI-generated media. Getty: “We took a step around

Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays.

Consider the threat once posed by the calculator to homework that involved arithmetic. In some cases, the point of such exercises is to learn arithmetic

"The Algorithm" is an Excuse

Stanford Health Care apologized Friday for a plan that left nearly all of its young front-line doctors out of the first round of coronavirus vaccinations.

On Firing Timnit Gebru, Google’s AI Ethics Chief

“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” lays out the risks of large language models—AIs trained on staggering amounts

I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you.

With growing excitement, I typed the prologue into the console: Why is there something rather than nothing? How is it possible for Universe the exist?

Some onions are too sexy for Facebook

There are regular onions, and then there are onions too sexy for Facebook, a Canadian seed and garden supply store recently discovered. The Seed Company