Last Week in AI #104 - Cruise Outages, Robots for Forestry, BigScience’s BLOOM, EU AI Act
Jul 20, 2022
Discover the chaos in San Francisco as autonomous vehicles from Cruise malfunction and cause traffic mayhem. Innovations in the forestry industry feature robots tackling labor shortages. Explore AI advancements like Google’s Minerva for math problem-solving and a fascinating project identifying WWII faces with facial recognition. Dive into the world of AI influencers raising questions of authenticity, alongside discussions on the EU's quest to regulate AI technologies. Plus, hear about exciting open-source tools transforming accessibility in AI.
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Google AI's Minerva
- Google AI's Minerva model uses sequential reasoning to solve complex mathematical and scientific problems.
- It's trained on both general language data and technical content, achieving significant performance improvements.
BigScience's BLOOM
- BigScience released BLOOM, a 176B parameter language model comparable to GPT-3, but multilingually trained.
- Developed by 1,000+ researchers, it's a significant step towards open-source, large language models.
Meta's Translation Tool
- Meta open-sourced an AI translation tool supporting 200 languages, including many unsupported by commercial tools.
- This makes diverse language translation more accessible for research and development.