Dec 14, 2022

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Dec 14, 2022

Should AI Moderate Social Media: Deciding which posts to show or hide is a human problem, not a tech problem.

What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers.
Diagram explaining Atlas, a retrieval-augmented language model that exhibits strong few-shot performance on knowledge tasks
Dec 14, 2022

Memorize Less; Retrieve More: How small language models can perform specialized tasks.

Large language models are trained only to predict the next word based on previous ones. Yet, given a modest fine-tuning set, they acquire enough information to learn how to perform tasks such as answering questions.
Sequence of cellphones showing a photograph turned into art on Lensa AI app
Dec 14, 2022

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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Dec 14, 2022

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.
Video showing Apple's self-driving car
Dec 14, 2022

Drive Different: Apple plans self-driving car release for 2026.

Apple is redrawing the road map for its self-driving car. The company is redesigning an autonomous car that has been in development for nearly a decade, Bloomberg reported. Originally intended to be fully autonomous under all conditions, the redesigned vehicle will allow for a human driver.
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Dec 14, 2022

FIFA World Cup's AI Referee, Apple Car Downshifts, Lensa AI Disrobes Users, Language Model Consults Database

The Batch - AI News & Insights: What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers.

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