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AI Without Glosses: How Large Language Models Are Learning to Translate Sign Language

For more than 70 million Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people worldwide, everyday communication still depends on human ...
Wired

This AI Model Never Stops Learning

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of ...

What are Machine Learning and Deep Learning?

Machine learning is a mechanism where computers learn patterns from data instead of humans writing instructions step by step.
Crypto Briefing

Affirm launches transformer-based machine learning model for real-time underwriting

Affirm unveiled a transformer-based machine learning model for real-time underwriting, outperforming its existing system after 18 months of ...
MIT Technology Review

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...
Ars Technica

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...
The Economist

Faith in God-like large language models is waning

Editor’s note (September 9th): This article has been updated. WHEN TECH folk talk about the lacklustre progress of large language models (LLMs), they often draw an analogy with smartphones. The early ...