Latest from Google AI – Directing ML toward natural hazard mitigation through collaboration

Posted by Oren Gilon, Software Engineer, and Grey Nearing, Research Scientist, Google Research Floods are the most common type of natural disaster, affecting more than 250 million people globally each year. As part of Google’s Crisis Response and our efforts to address the climate crisis, we are using machine learning (ML) models for Flood Forecasting…

Latest from Google AI – How Project Starline improves remote communication

Posted by Greg Blascovich and Eric Gomez, User Researchers, Google As companies settle into a new normal of hybrid and distributed work, remote communication technology remains critical for connecting and collaborating with colleagues. While this technology has improved, the core user experience often falls short: conversation can feel stilted, attention can be difficult to maintain,…

Latest from Google AI – Pre-trained Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization

Posted by Zi Wang and Kevin Swersky, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a powerful tool widely used for global optimization tasks, such as hyperparameter tuning, protein engineering, synthetic chemistry, robot learning, and even baking cookies. BayesOpt is a great strategy for these problems because they all involve optimizing black-box functions…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it

The response from schools and universities was swift and decisive. Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat on assignments. Los Angeles Unified, the second-­largest school district in the US, immediately blocked access to OpenAI’s…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song

A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of future ones. The model, described earlier this year…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, AI insiders were hotly debating an open letter signed by Elon Musk and various industry heavyweights arguing that AI poses an “existential risk” to humanity. They called for labs to introduce a…

Latest from MIT Tech Review – Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster 

AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now. But they’re poised to create a major new problem: they are ridiculously easy to misuse and to deploy as powerful phishing or scamming tools. No programming skills are needed. What’s worse is that there is no known fix.  Tech companies are racing…