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Will artificial intelligence ever rival true human thinking?
The narrowness of AI will someday be replaced by artificial general intelligence. But will it have the capability to rival human intelligence and creativity? Some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, at least the ones the public hear about, are famous for beating human players at chess or poker. Other algorithms are known for their ability to learn how to recognize cats or their inability to recognize people with darker skin. But are current AI systems anything more than toys?
Can Artificial Intelligence Be at Par With or Even Surpass Human Intelligence?
Do you think artificial intelligence can ever be at par with or even surpass human intelligence? This is a question that has been debated by scientists and researchers for years, and there is no clear answer. Some experts believe that artificial intelligence will never be able to replicate or exceed human intelligence, while others feel that it is only a matter of time until AI reaches that level. Is AI capable of surpassing human intelligence, or is that something that is forever reserved for humans? You may have heard of the term'artificial intelligence' but what does it actually mean?
Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision
Yang, Kevin, Tian, Yuandong, Peng, Nanyun, Klein, Dan
We consider the problem of automatically generating longer stories of over two thousand words. Compared to prior work on shorter stories, long-range plot coherence and relevance are more central challenges here. We propose the Recursive Reprompting and Revision framework (Re3) to address these challenges by (a) prompting a general-purpose language model to construct a structured overarching plan, and (b) generating story passages by repeatedly injecting contextual information from both the plan and current story state into a language model prompt. We then revise by (c) reranking different continuations for plot coherence and premise relevance, and finally (d) editing the best continuation for factual consistency. Compared to similar-length stories generated directly from the same base model, human evaluators judged substantially more of Re3's stories as having a coherent overarching plot (by 14% absolute increase), and relevant to the given initial premise (by 20%).
Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Rival Human Thinking?
Some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, at least the ones the public hear about, are famous for beating human players at chess or poker. Other algorithms are known for their ability to learn how to recognize cats or their inability to recognize people with darker skin. But are current AI systems anything more than toys? Sure, their ability to play games or identify animals is impressive, but does this help toward creating useful AI systems? To answer this, we need to take a step back and question what the goals of AI are.
Brain Cells Cultured in a Lab Learn to Play a "Pong" Game
A new neuroscience study published this week in Neuron shows how a brain cell system grown in a laboratory dish called "DishBrain" learns to play in a computer game-world inspired by the classic arcade game of "Pong." "Harnessing the computational power of living neurons to create synthetic biological intelligence (SBI), previously confined to the realm of science fiction, may now be within reach of human innovation," wrote researchers affiliated with Cortical Labs, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, RMIT University, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and University College London who conducted the study. This is the first synthetic biological intelligence to show real-time adaptive behavior according to the researchers. To create DishBrain, researchers developed active neuronal cultures of roughly 800,000 cells consisting of cortical brain cells from laboratory mice embryos or human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSC) that were plated on high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEA) chips, then embedded in a simulated game inspired by the arcade game Pong. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSC) engineering is used to create models used for pharmaceutical drug discovery and the development of novel therapeutic treatments.
The Creators of 'Westworld' Built a William Gibson Dystopia
If The Peripheral is to be believed, we're all pretty much doomed. Based on the William Gibson novel of the same name, the new Amazon series finds Flynne, a young computer-savvy woman played by Chloë Grace Moretz, unwittingly bouncing between the bleak near-future and the even bleaker distant future. She's been enlisted by her cyber GI brother to test some new mystery tech, and the pair quickly realize they've become embroiled in a thriller for the ages. The series is rife with outlandish inventions, brutal fights, and faceless cyborgs, plus local no-goods, hints of romance, and even some good old-fashioned drone warfare. The Peripheral also features behemoth sculptural air cleaners hovering over a staggeringly empty future version of London, just in case you weren't freaked out enough already.
Tourist Guidance Robot Based on HyperCLOVA
Yamazaki, Takato, Yoshikawa, Katsumasa, Kawamoto, Toshiki, Ohagi, Masaya, Mizumoto, Tomoya, Ichimura, Shuta, Kida, Yusuke, Sato, Toshinori
This paper describes our system submitted to Dialogue Robot Competition 2022. Our proposed system is a combined model of rule-based and generation-based dialog systems. The system utilizes HyperCLOVA, a Japanese foundation model, not only to generate responses but also summarization, search information, etc. We also used our original speech recognition system, which was fine-tuned for this dialog task. As a result, our system ranked second in the preliminary round and moved on to the finals.
What is the Future of Artificial Intelligence?
Us humans have always worked towards making our lives easier and better, and this constant struggle to achieve something better worked as bliss for humans. Isn't it so fascinating to look back at our cave-devilling ancestors and realise how far we have advanced as humans? We went through various milestones to achieve the technology we have today. As we further surpassed in technology, we stumbled upon exploring artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence (AI) we have today is in a golden age right now. Every industry is undergoing a sea change due to AI's inflection point. Specific applications of AI have already been discussed in great detail. Consider this post a complete guide on the practical use and foreseeing of artificial intelligence and how it impacts our lives. As a starter, I offer five bold predictions about how artificial intelligence will fundamentally alter our economy and society in the next decade.
Artificial intelligence has begun to exceed expectations
In 2020 The Guardian published an article that had been written by AI. It was about the increasing use of AI in journalism, and how it is changing the landscape of the industry. It discussed how AI is being used to generate news stories, and how it is being used to help reporters with their work. It was so natural that it was hard to believe that it was written by a software called GPT-3 developed by OpenAI, a research company. The Guardian isn't the only news organization using algorithms to write articles.
Pushing Buttons: the voice actors speaking out against NDAs, code names and poor pay
I have spent a few weeks talking to video-game voice actors, the real humans who bring verve and humour to our gaming experiences. Some of them have won major awards for their work. None of them have had a meaningful pay rise in over 10 years, despite the industry's exponential growth. They are furious – and they have every right to be. Over the weekend, Hellena Taylor, who played the lead character in Bayonetta, Platinum Games' stylish action series about a hypersexualised angel-killing witch who fights with extreme flair, went public with her frustrations.