Our new Thursday episodes of Decoder are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and this week, we’re continuing our miniseries on one of the biggest topics of all: generative AI. Last week, we took a look at the wave of copyright lawsuits that might eventually grind this whole industry to a…
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over claims that the pursuit of profit has led the company to abandon its founding mission to develop artificial intelligence technology that will benefit humanity. In a lawsuit filed with a San Francisco court on Thursday, Musk alleges that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft has transformed…
Mobile World Congress, like any good trade show, tries to present us with the best of what’s possible now and a vision for what’s coming next. Which translates to a lot of questions, particularly about the future of phones, like: “What if phones, but controlled with your eyes?” “What if phones, but make them fashion?”…
Elon Musk sued OpenAI today, alleging a wide range of incendiary things, including that GPT-4 is actually an artificial general intelligence. It’s a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol’ tech company and…
Reinforcement learning (RL) comprises a wide range of algorithms, typically divided into two main groups: model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) methods. MB algorithms rely on predictive models of environment feedback, termed world models, which simulate real-world dynamics. These models facilitate policy derivation through action exploration or policy optimization. Despite their potential, MB methods often need…
Despite having some parallels to other sequence modeling issues, like text, audio, or video, time series has two characteristics that make it particularly difficult. Aggregated time series datasets frequently include sequences from drastically varied sources, occasionally with missing values, in contrast to video or audio, which normally have uniform input scales and sample rates. Furthermore,…
When searching for flights on Google, you may have noticed that each flight's carbon-emission estimate is now presented next to its cost. It's a way to inform customers about their environmental impact, and to let them factor this information into their decision-making.
A similar kind of transparency doesn't yet exist for the computing industry, despite…
In a blog post, Microsoft gave users a sneak peek into Copilot for OneDrive, which it plans to release in late April. Copilot for OneDrive will take on the role of a research assistant of sorts, being able to both find, summarize, and extract information from a wide range of files. These include text documents…
