Success at the intersection of technology and finance
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin had some free advice for an at-capacity crowd of MIT students at the Wong Auditorium during a campus visit in April. “If you find...
The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out loud what many in Silicon Valley must have been whispering...
MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks
Posted by AJ Piergiovanni and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Vision-language foundational models are built on the premise of a single pre-training followed by subsequent adaptation to multiple downstream...
Building better pangenomes to improve the equity of genomics
Posted by Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, and Kishwar Shafin, Research Scientist, Genomics For decades, researchers worked together to assemble a complete copy of the molecular instructions for a human —...
Enabling conversational interaction on mobile with LLMs
Posted by Bryan Wang, Student Researcher, and Yang Li, Research Scientist, Google Research Intelligent assistants on mobile devices have significantly advanced language-based interactions for performing simple daily tasks, such as...
F-VLM: Open-vocabulary object detection upon frozen vision and language models
Posted by Weicheng Kuo and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Detection is a fundamental vision task that aims to localize and recognize objects in an image. However, the data...
Study: AI models fail to reproduce human judgements about rule violations
In an effort to improve fairness or reduce backlogs, machine-learning models are sometimes designed to mimic human decision making, such as deciding whether social media posts violate toxic content policies....
3 Questions: Jacob Andreas on large language models
Words, data, and algorithms combine, An article about LLMs, so divine. A glimpse into a linguistic world, Where language machines are unfurled. It was a natural inclination to task a...
The Boring Future of Generative AI
This week, at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a head-spinning number of projects and products powered by or enhanced by AI. They included a new-and-improved version...
‘Friends’ characters transformed into toddlers with AI: ‘Adorable’
No one told them life was gonna be this way. An Italian couple has used artificial intelligence to imagine “Friends” characters as toddlers. Luca and Anna Allievi, both 33, said...
You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots
In the spring of 2007, I was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. This was probably the most anticipated product in the history of tech....
Ozy Media stiffs ‘Genius Award’ recipients out of $10K grants after Carlos Watson arrest
Ozy Media has stiffed a dozen college kids out of their $10,000 “Genius Awards” after the troubled news site’s disgraced founder Carlos Watson was arrested on federal fraud charges, The...
‘Elvis’ Director Baz Luhrmann Doesn’t Think AI Will Conquer Movies
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Baz Luhrmann blends in well here. The...
How to find out if your car is collecting your personal information
New cars are computers on wheels. The average vehicle nowadays has over 1,400 microchips in it. Because your car is connected, it can also collect a lot of data about...
The Curious Case of the Missing Google Assistant
Google executives hosted the company’s I/O developer conference this week, an annual ritual that has in recent years centered on artificial intelligence. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot seen as challenging Google’s search...
