Machine Learning & AI

Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?

The Guardian: Parents and teachers across the world are rejoicing as students have returned to classrooms. But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a…

Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs

Technology Review: The explosion in text-to-image AI models like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2—programs trained to generate pictures of almost anything you ask for—has sent ripples through the creative industries, from fashion to filmmaking, by providing weird and wonderful images on demand. The…

The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT

New York Times: Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it…

Meta’s game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human

Technology Review: Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven players compete for control of Europe by moving pieces around on a map. Unlike other board games…