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Weakly Supervised AI: Overpromising, Underdelivering
Weakly supervised learning is a popular technique. The goal is to alleviate the costly data annotation bottleneck. But new research suggests these methods may be significantly overstating their capabilities.
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10.08.23 07:59 AM - Comment(s)
Reading Between the Lines: Subtle Stereotypes in AI Text Generation
Recent advances in AI language models like GPT-4 and Claude 2 have enabled impressively fluent text generation. However, new research reveals these models may perpetuate harmful stereotypes and assumptions through the narratives they construct.
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10.08.23 07:59 AM - Comment(s)
Lost in Translation: When Context Matters for AI
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Lisbon systematically studied when context is needed for high-quality translation across 14 languages.
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10.08.23 07:58 AM - Comment(s)
Tracking Political Bias from Data to Models to Decisions
Measuring the political leaning of various pretrained LMs.
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10.08.23 07:57 AM - Comment(s)
Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, and Hannah Zeavin discuss misguided uses of AI in the mental health area.
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10.08.23 07:55 AM - Comment(s)
The Challenge of Teaching AI to "Get" Jokes
While AI can now generate passable jokes, truly understanding humor remains difficult. Key challenges include perceiving incongruous imagery, resolving indirect connections to captions, and mastering the complexity of human culture/experience.
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10.08.23 07:54 AM - Comment(s)
A key challenge in AI is enabling systems to learn from just a few examples, like humans can. One technique that helps is showing the AI systems answered examples to guide its reasoning, called demonstration learning.
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10.08.23 07:53 AM - Comment(s)
Summarization is a key capability for many Generative AI systems. New research explores how better selection of training data can enhance the relevance and accuracy of summaries.
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10.08.23 07:53 AM - Comment(s)
New research explores how to make AI conversational agents more polite using a technique called "hedging."
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10.08.23 07:52 AM - Comment(s)
Generative AI in Enterprises: Gartner's Survey Unveils Opportunities and Risks
A new survey from Gartner has found that the availability of generative AI systems like ChatGPT is quickly becoming a top concern for enterprise risk management.
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10.08.23 07:26 AM - Comment(s)
Irresponsible AI: Prosecraft Faces Backlash from Authors and Shuts Down
Prosecraft, a data-driven project designed to analyze word usage and provide statistics on various writing-style markers, has recently come under fire from authors and subsequently shut down its operations.
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09.08.23 10:57 PM - Comment(s)
Training AI to Behave Ethically Through a "Constitution"
Researchers at Anthropic recently published a paper demonstrating a constitutional AI technique. Their goal was to make the assistants helpful, while avoiding harmful, dangerous, or unethical content.
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09.08.23 06:22 PM - Comment(s)
A new study published in the peer-reviewed Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2023) analyzed the presence and impact of Big Tech companies in AI research, specifically focusing on natural language processing (NLP) which powers many language-based AI like chatbots.
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09.08.23 03:12 PM - Comment(s)
Giving AI Writing Style with Story-to-Story Transfer
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Wuhan University propose teaching AI systems to mimic authorial styles.
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08.08.23 10:40 PM - Comment(s)
Understanding How AI Generates Images from Text
In a paper titled "What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention", researchers propose a method called DAAM (Diffusion Attentive Attribution Maps) to analyze how words in a prompt influence different parts of the generated image.
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08.08.23 04:59 PM - Comment(s)
Improving the Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models: Chain-of-Thought Prompting
We will explore recent research aimed at improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models and discuss its implications for business leaders.
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08.08.23 12:16 PM - Comment(s)
Our Pedagogic Design
Our AI academy’s pedagogic design.
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10.07.23 11:18 PM - Comment(s)
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management
Are you looking to adopt Artificial Intelligence in your organization? Do you have a risk management framework in place?
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02.07.23 02:39 AM - Comment(s)
What is Your AI Strategy?

Are you looking to adopt Artificial Intelligence in your organization? Did you know that only one in ten companies generates significant financial benefits with AI?

2020 Global Executive Study and Research Project by BCG and MIT Sloan surveyed over 3000 businesses representing 29 industri...
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02.07.23 02:11 AM - Comment(s)