New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations

By harnessing randomness, a new algorithm achieves a fundamentally novel — and faster — way of…

Next Raspberry Pi CPU Will Have Machine Learning Built In

Better machine learning is on the horizon. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…

Facebook’s new computer vision model achieves state-of-the-art performance by learning from random images

Facebook announced an AI model trained on a billion images that it claims achieves state-of-the-art results…

AI projects yield little business value so far

Artificial intelligence has been red hot in recent years, but it is generating precious little business…

AI can write a passing college paper in 20 minutes | ZDNet

Natural language processing is on the cusp of changing our relationship with machines forever. Read more…

A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or…

New Machine Learning Theory Raises Questions About the Very Nature of Science

A novel computer algorithm, or set of rules, that accurately predicts the orbits of planets in…

Who needs a supercomputer? Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problems | ZDNet

A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI…

‘Weird new things are happening in software,’ says Stanford AI professor Chris Re | ZDNet

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as…

An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

Image-generation algorithms are regurgitating the same sexist, racist ideas that exist on the internet. Read more…

How Transformers work in deep learning and NLP: an intuitive introduction

Transformers work in deep learning and nlp: an intuitive introduction. How did we go from attention…

Scientists look to harness the power of AI and the mind combined

European Commission gives project £3m to explore a new kind of technology. Is it worth it?…

Here’s what happened when AI and humans met in a strawberry-growing contest

Top strawberry growers were pitted against data scientists in a smart-agriculture competition organized by Chinese e-commerce…

Fruit Fly Brain Hacked For Language Processing

A simulated fruit fly brain has learnt to perform natural language processing tasks. Read more at…

Microsoft patent details tech that could turn dead people into AI chatbots

It’s Black Mirror come to life. Read more at CNET…

AI-powered text from this program could fool the government

Volunteers couldn’t tell AI-generated comments from those penned by humans. Read more at Ars Technica…

AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3

A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful…

Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model

Researchers at Google claim to have trained a natural language model containing over a trillion parameters.…

AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark

AI language models have surpassed human performance on a popular benchmark. But what does that really…

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the…