Robot armies duke it out in Battlecode’s epic on-screen battles
In a packed room in MIT’s Stata Center, hundreds of digital robots collide across a giant screen projected at the front of the room. A crowd of students in the...
Larger language models do in-context learning differently
Posted by Jerry Wei, Student Researcher, and Denny Zhou, Principal Scientist, Google Research There have recently been tremendous advances in language models, partly because they can perform tasks with strong...
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino shared ‘chemistry’ with Elon Musk
Linda Yaccarino’s onstage appearance with Elon Musk at a recent marketing conference in Miami Beach amounted to a job interview that eventually netted her the role of Twitter’s new chief...
Large language models are biased. Can logic help save them?
Turns out, even language models “think” they’re biased. When prompted in ChatGPT, the response was as follows: “Yes, language models can have biases, because the training data reflects the biases...
TikTok parent allowed Chinese Communist Party ‘supreme access’ to US data: suit
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to all data held by TikTok parent ByteDance, including information stored in the US, a former top executive at the company alleged in...
New insights into training dynamics of deep classifiers
A new study from researchers at MIT and Brown University characterizes several properties that emerge during the training of deep classifiers, a type of artificial neural network commonly used for...
Consensus and subjectivity of skin tone annotation for ML fairness
Posted by Candice Schumann, Software Engineer, and Gbolahan O. Olanubi, User Experience Researcher, Google Research Skin tone is an observable characteristic that is subjective, perceived differently by individuals (e.g., depending...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises nearly $100M, Sam Bankman-Fried among investors
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has nearly reached his goal of raising $100 million to fund his latest cryptocurrency project — and it’s all thanks to embattled crypto poster child Sam...
Creating a versatile vaccine to take on Covid-19 in its many guises
One of the 12 labors of Hercules, according to ancient lore, was to destroy a nine-headed monster called the Hydra. The challenge was that when Hercules used his sword to...
