That said, I am really confused by OpenAI's PR strategy for GPT-2; they push it heavily as the future of text writing, but all of their GPT-2 related repos are archived w/o any updates expected.

The battery-powered sedan broadcasts a request to merge into the next lane, and other nearby vehicles automatically adjust as it glides over and exits the highway. Inside, the passenger finishes a quick email check, then clicks on a monitor to catch up with the day's news. For fans of automated vehicles (AVs), it's the holy grail of transportation: Cars would pilot themselves in an orderly fashion, making driving safer, cheaper, and faster. Easy transportation would be available to everyone without the environmental impacts or traffic congestion seen today. But those benefits could be offset or canceled out altogether, skeptics say, if the technology inadvertently encourages more driving among people who can't currently drive, and among commuters who might opt to travel all the way into cities rather than "park and ride."

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Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, has started creating 3D maps in some heavily trafficked sections of Los Angeles to better understand congestion there and determine if its self-driving vehicles would be a good fit in the city. For now, Waymo is bringing just three of its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans to Los Angeles to map downtown and a section of Wilshire Boulevard known as Miracle Mile. Waymo employees will initially drive the vehicles to create 3D maps of the city. These maps are unlike Google Maps or Waze. Instead, they include topographical features such as lane merges, shared turn lanes and curb heights as well as road types and the distance and dimensions of the road itself, according to Waymo.

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence company owned by Google, has posted a huge increase in loss for the full year as its debt level reached more than £1bn. The London-headquartered company reported a loss of £470m in 2018, compared to £302m the previous year, according to its latest accounts. While Deepmind almost doubled its revenue over the year to £103m, this was offset by a near doubling of staff costs to £400m. Deepmind also said it has a debt pile of £1.04bn due for repayment this year, £883m of which is owed to Google's parent company Alphabet. A Deepmind spokesperson said: "Our DeepMind for Google team continues to make great strides bringing our expertise and knowledge to real-world challenges at Google scale, nearly doubling revenues in the past year.

It depends on the exact definition of justice, perhaps. The computerization/mechanisation of the public sector has largely been driven by the hope that logical government (deterministic decisions, given certain input deterministic output) will make society more "just" and "equal" (i.e. a computer does not have the social sensitivity to discriminate, for instance, and even when it does - for instance through statistical short-comings - we can normally measure and assess the discrimination that occurs). But we are now half a century in to computerization - has it worked? I think "lasagna-style" technologies, which are vertically separated as a matter of technology, are more likely to lead to an outcome of increased "justice". Because I think of justice as something which guarantees to individuals freedom to act - commercially and socially - and this freedom can only be obtained if market entry barriers are low, or if technologies lend themselves to a multitude of entities cooperating on different levels.

This is part two of a two-part interview with Blendid co-founder and CEO, Vipin Jain. Imagine you wanted to create a replicator like you saw on Star Trek. You've successfully figured out how to connect software that directs a robot, a working piece of hardware, that can execute a recipe; repeatedly, with consistent results. Now it's time to go big. "We had a lot of debate around what we should make first. It came down to choosing a food category. It had to be big enough to have mass appeal, especially to millennials and centennials," Vipin said.

Scientists from the Physics department, University of Warsaw, Poland, in association with the University of Oxford and NIST, have demonstrated that quantum interference facilitates the processing of huge sets of data faster and more accurately than with standard methods. The results of their work have been published in Science Advances. This research may enhance applications of quantum technologies in artificial intelligence, robotics, and medical diagnostics, for example. The Fast Fourier Transform algorithm(FFT) has made possible since the 1970s to efficiently compress and transmit data, broadcast digital TV, store pictures, and talk over a mobile phone. Minus this algorithm, medical imaging systems based on magnetic resonance or ultrasound would not have been designed. But then, it is still too slow for many demanding applications.

"Let's not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we're not sure yet how they're going to change society," warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. "Let's try to think through some of these issues -- move slower and fix things, rather than move fast and break things." Kind was speaking as part of a recent panel discussion at Digital Frontrunners, a conference in Copenhagen that focused on the impact of AI and other next-gen technologies on society. The "move fast and break things" ethos embodied by Facebook's rise to internet dominance is one that has been borrowed by many a Silicon Valley startup: develop and swiftly ship an MVP (minimal viable product), iterate, learn from mistakes, and repeat. These principles are relatively harmless when it comes to developing a photo-sharing app, social network, or mobile messaging service, but in the 15 years since Facebook came to the fore, the technology industry has evolved into a very different beast. Large-scale data breaches are a near-daily occurrence, data-harvesting on an industrial level is threatening democracies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is now permeating just about every facet of society -- often to humans' chagrin.

Artificial intelligence could be destabilizing the internet news ecosystem. And according to billionaire Elon Musk, social media is the first to fall prey. Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" -- if, he opined, it hasn't done so already. He added that "anonymous bot swarms" are "evolving rapidly." It's unclear what exactly Musk was referring to when he warned about "advanced AI" and "anonymous bot swarms."