Top news of the week: 01.03.2023.
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.
Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required.
Proponents of the growing field argue that the early weirdness of AI chatbots can be avoided by a human giving the machine all the right instructions.
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Responsible AI: The research collaboration behind new open-source tools offered by Microsoft
As computing and AI advancements spanning decades are enabling incredible opportunities for people and society, they’re also raising questions about responsible development and deployment. ...
Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish
Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly aspects of cognition in vitro. ...
Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement
In this post, we will talk about some of the opportunities afforded by such partnerships, including: · Addressing social challenges together · Training the next generation of …
Year in Review 2022: Technical Advances, Applications, and Social Responsibility
In 2022, we released Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM), a large-scale and collaborative undertaking to evaluate 30 prominent language models (spanning open, …
There’s a Casualty in the AI Arms Race: Transparency
Where do AI experts say we’re heading?