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Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google
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Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google

A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
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Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.

Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.
Phone showing different features of an app
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Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.
Speech bubble surrounded by Amazon, Google and Apple logos
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?
Godzilla with the Google logo and Kong with the Microsoft logo, fighting
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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.
MuLan text tokens computed from text prompt as conditioning signal
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He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.

As AI-generated text and images capture the world’s attention, music is catching up. Andrea Agostinelli, Timo I. Denk, and colleagues at Google and Sorbonne Université introduced MusicLM, a system that generates music from text descriptions.
Screen captures of the Sparrow Chatbot
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Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.
High-level overview of the STEGO architecture at train and prediction steps
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Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation

Training a model to separate the objects in a picture typically requires labeled images for best results. Recent work upped the ante for training without labels.
Plot demonstrating the relative sizes of parallel and monolingual examples
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Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages

Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.
Example of a video produced from a story-like description
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Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.
Robot with an arm, camera, and gripper handing over a plastic bottle to a person
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Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.
Satellite imagery of suburban homes with backyard pools.
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Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools
Gif of Google search results shows how the company is minimizing disinformation.
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Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation

Google updated the Multitask Unified model its search algorithm to respond to the flood of misinformation on the web.
Animated graphs showing how an ensemble of fine-tuned models can provide better performance.
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Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.
Animated flowcharts show how the ProtCNN AI model classifies proteins.
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Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

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