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An AI Researcher Tries to Build Good AI While Burning Down the Bad

By Margaux MacColl · Mar 25, 2023 7:05am PDT · 2 comments
In the hours after Margaret Mitchell was fired by Google over email in February 2021, she ran to the bathroom and threw up. “I was just so terrified that I was never going to get a job in tech again, that my name had been scarlet lettered,” she told me over an hourlong Zoom this week, calling from her home outside Seattle. That was... In the hours after Margaret Mitchell was fired by Google over email in February 2021, she ran to...
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Google’s Next AI Move: Teaching Foreign Languages

By Sarah Krouse · Jun 16, 2021 9:01am PDT
Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month previewed an artificial intelligence model that he said would enable people to have open-ended conversations with technology. But current and former employees who have worked with the language model say enabling coherent, free-flowing and accurate dialogue between humans and technology remains a tall order. As... Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month previewed an artificial intelligence model that he said would...
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Facebook’s Research Conveyor Belt for AI

By Cory Weinberg · Apr 7, 2016 10:43am PDT · 1 comment
It’s no secret that Facebook’s virtual assistant, M, doesn’t have true intelligence. Humans help operate the app within Messenger, which a limited number of people can use to order food, find flights or do other things that one day may be done by a machine.  But M wouldn’t exist without work by Facebook Artificial... It’s no secret that Facebook’s virtual assistant, M, doesn’t have true...