Business
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.
NLP
Machine Learning Research
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.
Tech & Society
Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI
Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.
Machine Learning Research
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.
Science
Listening to the Brain: NLP System Translates a Man's Brain Activity Into Words
Neural networks translated a paralyzed man’s brainwaves into conversational phrases. Researchers trained a system to interpret electrical impulses from the brain of a man who had lost the ability to speak 15 years ago, and displayed them as words on a video screen.
Tech & Society
Double Check for Defamation: CaliberAI uses NLP to scan for possible legal defamation.
A libel-detection system could help news outlets and social media companies stay out of legal hot water. CaliberAI, an Irish startup, scans text for statements that could be considered defamatory, Wired reported.
Tech & Society
Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.
A new study suggests tactics for machine learning engineers to cut their carbon emissions. Led by David Patterson, researchers at Google and UC Berkeley found that AI developers can shrink a model’s carbon footprint a thousand-fold by streamlining architecture...
Tech & Society
Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.
Machine Learning Research
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
Performance in language tasks rises with the size of the model — yet, as a model’s parameter count rises, so does the time it takes to render output. New work pumps up the number of parameters without slowing down the network.
Tech & Society
Language Models Want to Be Free: How EleutherAI is developing a GPT-3 clone.
A grassroots research collective aims to make a GPT-3 clone that’s available to everyone. EleutherAI, a loose-knit group of independent researchers, is developing GPT-Neo, an open source, free-to-use version of OpenAI’s gargantuan language model.
Tech & Society
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.
Machine Learning Research
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.