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AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.
Work on vision transformers exploded in 2022. Researchers published well over 17,000 ViT papers during the year. A major theme: combining self-attention and convolution.
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Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.
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Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.
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The World Cup's AI Referee
The outcome of the FIFA World Cup 2022 depends on learning algorithms. The annual championship tournament of football, which wraps up this week, is using machine learning to help human arbiters spot players who break a rule that governs their locations on the field.
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More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models
Members of the AI community tested the limits of the ChatGPT chatbot, unleashing an avalanche of tweets that made for sometimes-great, sometimes-troubling entertainment.
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Algorithms Control the Capital: The 29 Algorithms Used by Washington, D.C.
A new report offers a rare peek into the use of automated decision-making tools by the government of a major city.
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Billboards Are Watching: Billboards Target Ads using Face Recognition and AI
AI-driven signs are deciding what to display based on data harvested from passersby. Companies that sell advertising in public spaces use face analysis and personal data to match ads with potential viewers in real time.
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Translating a Mostly Oral Language: How Meta Trained an NLP Model to Translate Hokkein
Most speech-to-speech translation systems use text as an intermediate mode. So how do you build an automated translator for a language that has no standard written form? A new approach trained neural networks to translate a primarily oral language.
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Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm
A new algorithm defeated a championship-winning Go model using moves that even a middling human player could counter. Researchers trained a model to defeat KataGo, an open source Go-playing system that has beaten top human players.
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AI’s Year in Review: Fifth Annual State of AI Report Details 2022 Trends
2022 was a big year for AI-driven upstarts and scientific discovery, according to a new survey. The fifth annual State of AI Report details the biggest breakthroughs, business impacts, social trends, and safety concerns.
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AI Hasn’t Been So Bad for Jobs: Employment Has Risen in Some Automation-Heavy Professions
Worries that automation is stealing jobs may have been greatly exaggerated. A U.S. government report found that employment has increased in many occupations that may be threatened by automation.
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Does Price Optimization Hike Rents?: YieldStar AI Price Prediction May Inflate Rents
An algorithm that’s widely used to price property rentals may be helping to drive up rents in the United States. YieldStar, a price-prediction service offered by Texas-based analytics company RealPage, suggests rental rates that are often higher than the market average.