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5/2/2022
11 : 24
Import AI 293: Generative humans; few shot learning comes for vision-text models; and another new AI startup is born
How will fashion be influenced by the aesthetics of early AI generation technology? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email
4/25/2022
10 : 34
Import AI 292: AI makes low-carbon concrete; weaponized NLP; and a neuro-symbolic language model
Will sentient machines treat old software like human archaeologists treat ancient ruins? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this
4/11/2022
10 : 54
Import AI 291: Google trains the world's biggest language model; how robots can be smarter about the world; Conjecture, a new AI alignment company
Humans tell lots of stories about our ancestors - the things we came from, but which are not strictly human. How might machines talk about their own ancestors? View this email in your browser Welcome
4/5/2022
14 : 14
Import AI 290: China plans massive models; DeepMind makes a smaller and smarter model; open source CLIP data
If it's possible to build artificial general intelligence, how many people will be required to build it? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial
3/28/2022
15 : 4
Import AI 289: Copyright v AI art; NIST tries to measure bias in AI; solar-powered Markov chains
How many computers may exist in the solar system, but not on earth or manmade craft? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email
3/7/2022
10 : 24
Import AI 287: 10 exaflop supercomputer; Google deploys differential privacy; humans can outsmart deepfakes pretty well
What will the historical relics of this period of AI research turn out to be? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email to
2/28/2022
14 : 4
Import AI 286: Fairness through dumbness; planet-scale AI computing; another AI safety startup appears
What would it mean for AI systems to have dreams, and if they had them, what would they be like? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence.
2/14/2022
11 : 34
Import AI 284: 20bn GPT model; diachronic LMs; what people think about AI
In one thousand years, what percentage of the 'thinking' occurring on Earth will derive from machines instead of biological organisms? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a
2/7/2022
11 : 24
Import AI 283: Open source 20B GPT3; Chinese researchers make better adversarial example attacks; Mozilla launches AI auditing project.
If civilization crashes, will our descendents in a thousand years remember AI systems as machines, or as mythical gods? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about
2/1/2022
11 : 54
Import AI 282: Facebook's AI supercomputer; Anduril gets a SOCOM contract; Twitter talks about running an algo-bias competition
Is the development of AI and inevitable outcome of building a lot of computers, or is it a choice? How much agency do we really have about technological progress? View this email in your browser
1/24/2022
14 : 24
Import AI 281: China does more surveillance research than US and Europe; Google reveals its text model LaMDA; Microsoft improves MoEs
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1/10/2022
12 : 4
Import AI 279: Baidu adds knowledge to a language model; US military + AI; how China thinks about AI governance
How would an AI, given the objective of stabilizing the Earth's climate in distribution with an averaged multi-decade sliding window of past few hundred years, approach the subject of climate
12/27/2021
19 : 4
Import AI 278: Can we ever trust an AI?; what the future of semiconductors looks like; better images of AI
Given the pace of progress in generative AI, how long until people will be able to generate their own customized feature-length films on command? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a
12/13/2021
10 : 54
Import AI 277: DeepMind builds a GPT-3 model; Catalan GLUE; FTC plans AI regs
Could crypto computation eventually compete with AI computation at the level of fab production capacity? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence
12/6/2021
11 : 24
Import AI 276: Tracking journalists with computer vision; spotting factory defects with AI; and what simulated war might look like
What would be the smallest computational envelope required to simulate fluid dynamics to the same fidelity as reality? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about
11/15/2021
11 : 24
Import AI 274: Multilingual models cement power structures; a giant British Sign Language dataset; and benchmarks for the UN SDGs
If you had the choice of having 1, 3, or 10 'AGI-class' systems come online at once, which would you pick? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial
11/8/2021
14 : 34
Import AI 273: Corruption VS Surveillance; Baidu makes better object detection; understanding the legal risk of datasets
At what point will AI start to influence religion, and vice versa? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email to give your
11/1/2021
10 : 24
Import AI #272: AGI-never or AGI-soon?, simulating stock markets; evaluating unsupervised RL
If each individual parameter of every machine learning model in existence were rendered as a 1cm by 1cm cube, how much space would they all take up? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI
10/25/2021
9 : 54
Import AI 271: The PLA and adversarial examples; why CCTV surveillance has got so good; and human versus computer biases
How many times has artificial general intelligence been invented on other planets? View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about artificial intelligence. Forward this email
10/11/2021
11 : 34
Import AI 269: Baidu takes on Meena; Microsoft improves facial recognition with synthetic data; unsolved problems in AI safety
At some point, we'll think about experimenting on AIs in the same way we'll think about experimenting on monkeys. View this email in your browser Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about