Chandhiramowuli tells me of one case where a data annotator in India had to differentiate between images of soda bottles and pick out ones that looked...
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, a gold rush has started over the last several months to make money from generative AI models like...
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The result is a breakthrough for a technique known as imitation learning, in which neural networks are trained how to perform tasks by watching humans do...
Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to pay by scanning your palm...
Demanding that tech companies provide more data about the climate impact of building, training, and using AI is a start. We should also shift away from...
To test its new approach, Hugging Face estimated the overall emissions for its own large language model, BLOOM, which was launched earlier this year. It was...
It was a move that capped a dramatic period in Hanna’s professional life. In late 2020, her manager, Timnit Gebru, had been fired from her position...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The messy morality of...
But GPT-3 suffers from several problems that researchers are working to address. It’s often inconsistent—you can get contradictory answers to the same question. Second, GPT-3 is...
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