The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed
Sudowrite is intended to be used as a writer’s assistant; authors plug in sentences that are giving them trouble, or scenes they’re working on, and the AI offers up a...
Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants
“MIT is a place where dreams come true,” says César Terrer, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Here at MIT, Terrer says he’s given the...
Scaling vision transformers to 22 billion parameters
Posted by Piotr Padlewski and Josip Djolonga, Software Engineers, Google Research Large Language Models (LLMs) like PaLM or GPT-3 showed that scaling transformers to hundreds of billions of parameters improves...
Learning to grow machine-learning models
It’s no secret that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities — for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles Shakespearean sonnets or debug code for a computer program. These...
Pre-trained Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization
Posted by Zi Wang and Kevin Swersky, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a powerful tool widely used for global optimization tasks, such as hyperparameter tuning,...
Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells
Researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery...
How Project Starline improves remote communication
Posted by Greg Blascovich and Eric Gomez, User Researchers, Google As companies settle into a new normal of hybrid and distributed work, remote communication technology remains critical for connecting and...
More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard | WIRED
The bloc’s omission hints at the larger power struggle between regulators and Big Tech in Europe. At a minimum, the search giant needs more time to compare Bard with the...
A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks
Neural networks, a type of machine-learning model, are being used to help humans complete a wide variety of tasks, from predicting if someone’s credit score is high enough to qualify...
Directing ML toward natural hazard mitigation through collaboration
Posted by Oren Gilon, Software Engineer, and Grey Nearing, Research Scientist, Google Research Floods are the most common type of natural disaster, affecting more than 250 million people globally each...
Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models
With the release of platforms like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, diffusion generative models have achieved mainstream popularity, owing to their ability to generate a series of absurd, breathtaking, and often...
Towards ML-enabled cleaning robots
Posted by Thomas Lew, Research Intern, and Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Over the past several years, the capabilities of robotic systems have improved dramatically. As...
A Cambridge Analytica-style scandal for AI is coming
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Can you imagine a car company putting...
A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains
If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens down on your face as the smell of grass permeates the air. You look around. A...
Developing an aging clock using deep learning on retinal images
Posted by Sara Ahadi, Research Fellow, Applied Science, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Genomics Aging is a process that is characterized by physiological and molecular changes that increase an individual’s...
