August marked a year since Amazon announced plans to acquire iRobot in a $1.7 billion deal that some analysts suggested could give the retail giant a big lead in consumer robotics in the same way that Kiva stepped up its industrial ambitions a year ago. I don’t know that anyone expected such a huge deal to simply slip past regulators — especially with all the heat Amazon has taken over privacy concerns and anti-competitive practices over the past decade. At the same time, I don’t think many of us assumed we’d get to 2024 with this big, open question mark.…
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Corner down icon An icon in the shape of a corner pointing down. New research shows that large language models may have the ability to deceive users. PhonlamaiPhoto/Getty Images The researchers created an AI stock trader to see if it would engage in insider trading under pressure.They found that the AI did – and also lied to its hypothetical manager about why it made its decision.The AI had been told that trading inside information was illegal. New research suggests that GPT-4, the large language model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has the ability to act outside of how it’s trained when faced…
Speaking to retail executives in 2010, Rama Ramakrishnan came to two realizations. First, although retail systems that offered customers personalized recommendations attracted a lot of attention, these systems often provided little reward to retailers. Second, for many of the companies, most customers only shopped once or twice a year, so the companies didn’t really know much about them. “But by being very diligent about recording the interactions a customer has with a retailer or an e-commerce site, we can build a very nice and detailed composite picture of what that person is doing and what they’re interested in,” says Ramakrishnan,…
Many recent successes in linguistic models (LM) have been achieved in a “static paradigm”, where the focus is on improving performance on benchmarks generated without regard to the temporal aspect of the data. For example, answering questions about events that the model could learn about during training or evaluating on text samples from the same period as the training data. However, our language and knowledge is dynamic and constantly evolving. Therefore, to enable a more realistic evaluation of query answering models for the next leap in performance, it is important to ensure that they are flexible and robust when dealing…
Michael D. Cohen, the one-time fixer for former President Donald J. Trump accidentally gave his lawyer false legal citations concocted by Google’s artificial intelligence program Bard, he said in court documents unsealed Friday.The mock reports were used by the attorney in a motion submitted to federal judge Jesse M. Furman. Mr. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations and served a prison sentence, had asked the judge to put an early end to court supervision of his case now that he is out of prison and has complied with the terms of his release. of. .The chain…
Life in DeepMind Post it May 26, 2022 Today we caught up with Aliya Rysbek, software engineer on the platform team. She told us about her journey from Central Asia to DeepMind and her endless curiosity for learning. What does a software engineer do on the platform team?Our team is working on a custom project management system to organize all DeepMind research projects. I’m a full-stack developer, so I build the system components such as the team structure display and various support services to add and enhance the functionality of the product. This system helps plan and track projects, see…
AI is all the rage — particularly AI that generates text, aka big language models (think models along the lines of ChatGPT). In a recent one overview of approximately 1,000 business organizations, 67.2% say they see the adoption of large language models (LLM) as a top priority by early 2024. But obstacles stand in the way. According to the same survey, a lack of customization and flexibility, combined with an inability to preserve corporate knowledge and intellectual property, prevented—and is—many firms from developing an LLM in manufacturing. That got Varun Vummadi and Esha Manideep Dinne thinking: What might a solution…
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry kicked off 2023 with a bang as schools and universities raced to get students to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help them with homework and essay writing. Less than a week into the year, New York City’s public schools banned ChatGPT — released weeks earlier to huge fanfare — a move that would set the stage for much of the debate surrounding genetic artificial intelligence in 2023. As the buzz grew around Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and competitors like Google’s Bard AI, Baidu’s Ernie Chatbot and Meta’s LLaMA, so did questions about how to handle a powerful new…
To train agents to interact well with humans, we need to be able to measure progress. But human interaction is complex and measuring progress is difficult. In this work we developed a method, called the Standardized Test Suite (STS), for evaluating factors in time-extended, multimodal interactions. We examined interactions consisting of human participants asking agents to perform tasks and answer questions in a 3D simulation environment.The STS methodology places agents in a set of behavioral scenarios extracted from real human interaction data. Agents see a repeating script box, receive an instruction, and then are given control to complete the offline…
Canva has crafted a highly successful business model on the idea that graphic design should be accessible to everyone. The Australian company has raised $560 million since it was founded in 2012 and currently generates annual recurring revenue of about $1.7 billion, according to co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams. Canva is in 190 countries and over 100 languages and has over 170 million signed up active users. But despite its rapid growth and international presence, the company has taken a few hits this year. A handful of Canva investors — including Blackbird, T. Rowe Price and Frank Templeton…
