BIOENGINEER

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 ...
BIOENGINEER

AI Reads the Boardroom: Can Language Models Measure Digital Transformation?

A new study in the Journal of Big Data shows that large language models can outperform traditional machine learning in measuring enterprise digital transformation from corporate texts, though they ...

Why do large language models agree with users, even when users are wrong?

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly entrusted with answering questions, supporting decisions and generating content. Yet researchers have identified a surprising weakness in many of today ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Analytics Insight

From Models to Systems: Moxank Patel on Building Machine Learning That Works at Scale

Moxank Patel, Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, has worked across machine learning, information retrieval, NLP, computer vision, backend engineering and produc ...