Last week, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI announced that they had built a neural network language model, GPT-2, that is so good at this game that OpenAI felt it would be irresponsible of them to make it available to others.
Tag: artificial intelligence
Google made major news headlines this week, when it decided to withdraw from Project Maven, after its contract expires next year. This partnership provides AI…
I have long held that I won’t be buying any kind of home AI assistant (e.g., Alexa and her ilk). I have some serious concerns…
OPLIN 4Cast #584: No psychics, but we’ll get to ‘Minority Report’ with computers
Posted in 4cast, and Algorithms
When I hear “machine learning,” my brain immediately goes to “artificial intelligence,” which movies like 2001 and The Terminator have led me to believe will…
It’s not your imagination; we just posted about artificial intelligence developments as recently as this past April. However, AI applications are moving ahead at an…
OPLIN 4cast #528: Deep learning
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Last week, Facebook announced that its users will be able to search for photos based on a description of the photo, something Google Photos has…
OPLIN 4cast #502: Future shock… just sharing the joy
Posted in 4cast, Facebook, and predictions
I subscribe to a crap ton (that’s a scientific measurement, right?) of RSS feeds. Admittedly, I struggle to keep up with all of them. It takes…
OPLIN 4cast #495: Talking back
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We have done a number of posts lately about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and efforts to make AI bots communicate more like humans, even to the…
Everyone seems to be getting excited about artificial intelligence (AI) these days. As Bill Gates said last week, “The dream is finally arriving.” And people…
OPLIN 4cast #489: AI is getting warmer
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OK, all you librarians, it’s time to be brutally honest: You don’t really have a very high opinion of romance novels, do you? At best,…