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AI Weekly: Can language models learn morality?

August 8, 2020
The fervor around state-of-the-art AI language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 hasn’t died down. If anything, it’s gaining steam. Melanie Mitchell, a professor of computer science at Portland State University, found evidence that GPT-3 can make primitive analogies. Raphaël Millière, a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society, asked…
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Google Maps for iOS partially breaks Street View in latest update

August 7, 2020
Despite Apple offering its own option, Google Maps is still the most popular navigation app for iPhone. With the latest Google Maps update on iOS, though, some users are reporting that Street View is broken. Reports circulating this week through Twitter and Google’s Product Forums (via ) make it clear that something’s up on the latest Maps for iOS update (v5.49). While the app as a whole is…
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Researchers say ‘The Whiteness of AI’ in pop culture erases people of color

August 7, 2020
Depictions of artificial intelligence in popular culture as mostly white can carry a number of consequences, including the erasure of people who are not white, according to research released today by researchers from the University of Cambridge. The authors say the normalization of predominant depictions of AI as white can influence people aspiring to enter the field of artificial intelligence as…
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Researchers say we need better benchmarks to build more useful AI assistants

August 6, 2020
The promise of conversational AI is that, unlike virtually any other form of technology, all you have to do is talk. Natural language is the most natural and democratic form of communication. After all, humans are born capable of learning how to speak, but some never learn to read or use a graphical user interface. That’s why AI researchers from Element AI, Stanford University, and CIFAR…
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