On the Edge #15
Bits and pices I’ve read this week:
Bias in new generative models :
Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale
HuggingFace has recently published a tool to analyze model biases. Here they explain how to use this model to evaluate some language models for Toxicity, language polarity ( model bias toward different gender, race, profession, etc.), hurtful sentence completions (model bias toward gendered stereotypes)
The US government is concerned regarding how China and Russia can manipulate propaganda and censorship at a big scale outside their borders (link)
Identifying crops from weeds and targeting them with appropriate chemicals. The result, using 95% less chemicals.
One of my long-standing projects is a vision paper for AGI, and I'm still determining if I will publish it. However, one of the motivations behind it is to demonstrate despite the fantastic progress in AI; we're still far from something intelligent. Recently Amazon has published a dataset of Q&A calld Mintaka as a baseline for research, and most language models need to get better results (38%) even with optimized parameters. This score happens where NLP is arguably the most advanced field in AI with large language models, Q&A is one of the initial use cases in the area, and benchmarks have been in English. It doesn't mean we're not going to get outstanding scores on this dataset. In fact, if we give it 12 to 18 months, we'll see high scores on Mintaka, and Mintaka itself will help to advance NLP research. My point remains on how we perceive intelligence and how current models implement it.
Growing number of Amazon robots in warehouses: Amazon robots
This tool saves the webpage you’re viewing if in the future it becomes unavilable. (IPFS serves the same mission.)
Find YouTube videos on this site, where Internet is blocked!
A toy: Bubble fun :D (interact with everything) and other fun projects from the developer
Another image from James Webb:
Fantastic animation of a life inside a space ship. You can click on things and some of them are interactive. You can actually play a game:
Click "changes" on the top, and go through to a highlight and explanations. It's a live project and things are getting add to it. While reading about this project on Reddit, I also found a couple of amazing videos generated by many artists: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I haven't fully seen them, but I was amazed by the second one.
I’ve listened to the new release of Spiceworlds (its 25th anniversary) and enjoyed their endless optimism. Also the 1984 album by Van Halen. Here are some of my latest playlists on Spotify:
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