Hyperdimensional Computing Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track. For one, ANNs are...
AI tool Stable Diffusion amplifies race and gender stereotypes
A popular generative AI tool that creates images from text prompts is rife with gender and racial stereotypes when it comes to rendering people in “high-paying” and “low-paying jobs,” according...
Three Spanish MIT physics postdocs receive Botton Foundation fellowships
Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, were chosen by the Department of Physics as the first cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation...
Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and evaluating text-guided image inpainting
Posted by Su Wang and Ceslee Montgormery, Research Engineers, Google Research In the last few years, text-to-image generation research has seen an explosion of breakthroughs (notably, Imagen, Parti, DALL-E 2,...
Elon Musk wants Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon for Twitter shows
Twitter boss Elon Musk wants to lure liberal TV hosts like fired CNN anchor Don Lemon or MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to his platform to balance out conservative views voiced...
Mark Zuckerberg jabs Apple Vision Pro for making people ‘sit on a couch by themself’
Metaverse evangelist Mark Zuckerberg took a shot at tech rival Apple over its pricey mixed-reality headset, saying the new gadget is only for people “sitting on a couch by themself.”...
Meta reveals Twitter rival, says it will be ‘sanely run’
Meta teased a standalone app in a “response to Twitter” during a company-wide meeting on Thursday, and a top exec at the Facebook parent company has already taunted Twitter boss...
Mark Zuckerberg plans to integrate AI technology ‘into every single’ Meta platform
Mark Zuckerberg told executives Thursday that AI tools will soon be integrated “into every single one” of Meta’s products. The Facebook founder demonstrated during an all-hands meeting how the ChatGPT-like...
MIT researchers make language models scalable self-learners
Socrates once said: “It is not the size of a thing, but the quality that truly matters. For it is in the nature of substance, not its volume, that true...
GM adopts Tesla’s EV charging system in big win for Elon Musk
General Motors will join Ford in adopting Tesla’s North American charging plug standard and give GM electric-vehicle buyers access to the Tesla Supercharger network under an agreement announced on Thursday. GM’s move,...
New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery
Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these...
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes cries during first prison visit with husband Billy Evans, parents
Distraught Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was spotted crying throughout a seven-hour reunion with her family last weekend – less than a week after she reported to federal prison in Texas...
Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time
I’d be surprised if Andreessen’s highly educated audience actually believes the lump of labor fallacy, but he goes ahead and dismantles it anyway, introducing—as if it were new to his...
Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront
There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems and challenges. While their adoption, particularly with the rise...
Google tells East Coast employees to work from home over Canadian wildfire
Google allowed employees in New York City and other East Coast locales to work from home to avoid dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires – even as the tech giant warned...
