As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take...
And coming to terms with “robot writing” might just improve writing instruction, S. Scott Graham writes. September 2022 was apparently the month artificial intelligence essay angst boiled over in acad...
With the new surge in artificial intelligence’s abilities, more people are asking what constitutes art. AI images from text prompts in programs like DALL-E and Midjourney are everywhere these days and...
This morning, the New York Times’ Kevin Roose called what has been a big week for generative AI tools a “coming out” party [subscription required]. He detailed an actual party, on Monday night, which ...
GitHub Copilot, the text-to-code AI tool, has been—for the most part—revolutionary in determining how people code. Twitter has been erupting with people expressing how this new AI tool has benefitted ...
UNLIKE THE CAREFULLY scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ov...
Somewhere at his core — beneath the endless scroll of scientific awards, the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s earned as a technologist, and the weight of directing perhaps the most important AI co...
We’ve all come to appreciate that AI and machine learning are the magic sauce powering large-scale consumer internet properties. Facebook, Amazon and Instacart boast enormous datasets and huge user co...
Creativity is a mysterious thing. Our world economy is powered by creativity, yet despite the best efforts of our best engineers, creativity has not been captured by a machine. Until recently. With th...
In 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-3, a language model that uses machine learning to ingest and produce human-like text. Panic ensued as writers worried they’d be replaced by AI. But two years later, the im...
How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do? One common approach in AI research is called “reinforcement learning”. Reinforcement learning gives the software a “reward” defined in some...
The EU’s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act plans to restrict open-source AI. But that will come at a cost for advancement and innovation, argues Nitish Mutha of Genie AI The proposed – and still de...
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why We use tools that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) every day, with voice assistants like Ale...
A new paper explains that we’ll have to be careful and thorough when programming future AI, or it could have dire consequences for humanity. The paper lays out the specific dangers and the “assumption...
I firmly believe that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be among the most disruptive technologies we will ever develop. So why – more than 50 years since the first machine learning res...