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Researchers and business leaders at the forefront of the field unpack the most pressing questions around data science and AI.
Progress in AI has been accelerating dramatically in recent years, and even months. It seems like every other day, there’s a new, previously...
It’s no secret that a new generation of powerful and highly scaled language models is taking the world by storm. Companies like OpenAI, AI21...
Imagine you’re a big hedge fund, and you want to go out and buy yourself some data. Data is really valuable for you — it’s literally going t...
Today, we live in the era of AI scaling. It seems like everywhere you look people are pushing to make large language models larger, or more...
Deep learning models — transformers in particular — are defining the cutting edge of AI today. They’re based on an architecture called an ar...
It’s no secret that the US and China are geopolitical rivals. And it’s also no secret that that rivalry extends into AI — an area both count...
There’s a website called thispersondoesnotexist.com . When you visit it, you’re confronted by a high-resolution, photorealistic AI-generated...
Two ML researchers with world-class pedigrees who decided to build a company that puts AI on the blockchain. Now to most people — myself inc...
As you might know if you follow the podcast, we usually talk about the world of cutting-edge AI capabilities, and some of the emerging safet...
If the name data2vec sounds familiar, that’s probably because it made quite a splash on social and even traditional media when it came out,...
AI scaling has really taken off. Ever since GPT-3 came out, it’s become clear that one of the things we’ll need to do to move beyond narrow...
There’s an idea in machine learning that most of the progress we see in AI doesn’t come from new algorithms of model architectures. instead,...
Generating well-referenced and accurate Wikipedia articles has always been an important problem: Wikipedia has essentially become the Intern...
Trustworthy AI is one of today’s most popular buzzwords. But although everyone seems to agree that we want AI to be trustworthy, definitions...
Until recently, very few people were paying attention to the potential malicious applications of AI. And that made some sense: in an era whe...
Imagine, for example, an AI that’s trained to identify cows in images. Ideally, we’d want it to learn to detect cows based on their shape an...
Google the phrase “AI over-hyped”, and you’ll find literally dozens of articles from the likes of Forbes , Wired , and Scientific American ,...
It’s no secret that AI systems are being used in more and more high-stakes applications. As AI eats the world, it’s becoming critical to ens...
Until very recently, the study of human disease involved looking at big things — like organs or macroscopic systems — and figuring out when...
If you were scrolling through your newsfeed in late September 2021, you may have caught this splashy headline from The Times of London that...
Today’s episode is somewhat special, because we’re going to be talking about what might be the first solid quantitative study of the power-s...
Until recently, AI systems have been narrow — they’ve only been able to perform the specific tasks that they were explicitly trained for. An...
2021 has been a wild ride in many ways, but its wildest features might actually be AI-related. We’ve seen major advances in everything from...
Imagine for a minute that you’re running a profitable business, and that part of your sales strategy is to send the occasional mass email to...
Historically, AI systems have been slow learners. For example, a computer vision model often needs to see tens of thousands of hand-written...
There once was a time when AI researchers could expect to read every new paper published in the field on the arXiv, but today, that’s no lon...
Today, most machine learning algorithms use the same paradigm: set an objective, and train an agent, a neural net, or a classical model to p...
It’s no secret that governments around the world are struggling to come up with effective policies to address the risks and opportunities th...
AI ethics is often treated as a dry, abstract academic subject. It doesn’t have the kinds of consistent, unifying principles that you might...
Over the last two years, the capabilities of AI systems have exploded . AlphaFold2, MuZero, CLIP, DALLE, GPT-3 and many other models have ex...
On the face of it, there’s no obvious limit to the reinforcement learning paradigm: you put an agent in an environment and reward it for tak...
Bias gets a bad rap in machine learning. And yet, the whole point of a machine learning model is that it biases certain inputs to certain ou...
As impressive as they are, language models like GPT-3 and BERT all have the same problem: they’re trained on reams of internet data to imita...
Corporate governance of AI doesn’t sound like a sexy topic, but it’s rapidly becoming one of the most important challenges for big companies...
The more powerful our AIs become, the more we’ll have to ensure that they’re doing exactly what we want. If we don’t, we risk building AIs t...
The recent success of large transformer models in AI raises new questions about the limits of current strategies: can we expect deep learnin...
AI research is often framed as a kind of human-versus-machine rivalry that will inevitably lead to the defeat — and even wholesale replaceme...
2020 was an incredible year for AI. We saw powerful hints of the potential of large language models for the first time thanks to OpenAI’s GP...
Many AI researchers think it’s going to be hard to design AI systems that continue to remain safe as AI capabilities increase. We’ve seen al...
Cruise is a self-driving car startup founded in 2013 — at a time when most people thought of self-driving cars as the stuff of science ficti...
There are a lot of reasons to pay attention to China’s AI initiatives. Some are purely technological: Chinese companies are producing increa...
This special episode of the Towards Data Science podcast is a cross-over with our friends over at the Banana Data podcast. We’ll be zooming...
Few would disagree that AI is set to become one of the most important economic and social forces in human history. But along with its transf...
How can you know that a super-intelligent AI is trying to do what you asked it to do? The answer, it turns out, is: not easily. And unfortun...
When OpenAI announced the release of their GPT-3 API last year, the tech world was shocked. Here was a language model, trained only to perfo...
In 2016, OpenAI published a blog describing the results of one of their AI safety experiments. In it, they describe how an AI that was train...
We all value privacy, but most of us would struggle to define it. And there’s a good reason for that: the way we think about privacy is shap...
When OpenAI developed its GPT-2 language model in early 2019, they initially chose not to publish the algorithm, owing to concerns over its...
Automated weapons mean fewer casualties, faster reaction times, and more precise strikes. They’re a clear win for any country that deploys t...
In December 1938, a frustrated nuclear physicist named Leo Szilard wrote a letter to the British Admiralty telling them that he had given up...