In the United States and around the world, democracy is under threat. Anti-democratic attitudes have become…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
AI Chatbots have shown they have an ’empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have frequently shown signs of an “empathy gap” that puts young users…
Parallelized sampling using exponential variates
As part of our recent work to support weighted sampling of Spark data frames in sparklyr,…
The Download: Google’s AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data
Google’s new AI podcasting tool, called Audio Overview, has become a surprise viral hit. The podcasting…
Protecting Democratic Institutions from Cyber Threats
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) is disrupting the technical infrastructure used by a persistent Russian nation-state…
Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently | MIT News
The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could…
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter
Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets.…
State-of-the-art NLP models from R
Introduction The Transformers repository from “Hugging Face” contains a lot of ready to use, state-of-the-art models,…
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts, and they’re weird and amazing
The tool generates a podcast called Deep Dive, which features a male and a female voice…
Thank you, teachers, for the stories we can’t fully express
Join us this World Teachers’ Day as we express our gratitude for educators everywhere. There aren’t…