Humans can classify data of an unseen category by reasoning on its language explanations. This ability is owing to the compositional nature of language: we can combine previously seen attributes to describe the new category. For example, we might describe a sage thrasher as "it has a slim straight relatively short bill, yellow eyes and a long tail", so that others can use their knowledge of attributes "slim straight relatively short bill", "yellow eyes" and "long tail" to recognize a sage thrasher. Inspired by this observation, in this work we tackle zero-shot classification task by logically parsing and reasoning on natural language expla-nations. To this end, we propose the framework CLORE (Classification by LOgical Reasoning on Explanations). While previous methods usually regard textual information as implicit features, CLORE parses explanations into logical structures and then explicitly reasons along thess structures on the input to produce a classification score. Experimental results on explanation-based zero-shot classification benchmarks demonstrate that CLORE is superior to baselines, which we further show mainly comes from higher scores on tasks requiring more logical reasoning. We also demonstrate that our framework can be extended to zero-shot classification on visual modality. Alongside classification decisions, CLORE can provide the logical parsing and reasoning process as a clear form of rationale. Through empirical analysis we demonstrate that CLORE is also less affected by linguistic biases than baselines.

One major barrier to advancing aerial autonomy has been collecting large-scale aerial datasets for training machine learning models. Due to costly and time-consuming real-world data collection through deploying drones, there has been an increasing shift towards using synthetic data for training models in drone applications. However, to increase widespread generalization and transferring models to real-world, increasing the diversity of simulation environments to train a model over all the varieties and augmenting the training data, has been proved to be essential. Current synthetic aerial data generation tools either lack data augmentation or rely heavily on manual workload or real samples for configuring and generating diverse realistic simulation scenes for data collection. These dependencies limit scalability of the data generation workflow. Accordingly, there is a major challenge in balancing generalizability and scalability in synthetic data generation. To address these gaps, we introduce a scalable Aerial Synthetic Data Augmentation (ASDA) framework tailored to aerial autonomy applications. ASDA extends a central data collection engine with two scriptable pipelines that automatically perform scene and data augmentations to generate diverse aerial datasets for different training tasks. ASDA improves data generation workflow efficiency by providing a unified prompt-based interface over integrated pipelines for flexible control. The procedural generative approach of our data augmentation is performant and adaptable to different simulation environments, training tasks and data collection needs. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in automatically generating diverse datasets and show its potential for downstream performance optimization.

In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a major step forward in creative artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is OpenAI's interface to a "large language model," a new breed of AI based on a neural network trained on billions of words of text. ChatGPT generates natural language responses to queries (prompts) on those texts. In bringing working versions of this technology to the public, ChatGPT has unleashed a huge wave of experimentation and commentary. It has inspired moods of awe, amazement, fear, and perplexity.

Microsoft is building AI into Windows 11 proper, making it the first major consumer PC platform to embrace large language models. Here's how it could help you.

The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech on Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of eager-faced students and admirers of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT had come here to watch the UK leg of Altman's world tour, where he expects to travel to around 17 cities. This week, he has already visited Paris and Warsaw. Last week he was in Lagos. But the queue was soundtracked by a small group of people who had traveled to loudly express their anxiety that AI is advancing too fast.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday his company could "cease operating" in the European Union if it is unable to comply with the provisions of new artificial intelligence legislation that the bloc is currently preparing. "We're gonna try to comply," Altman said on the sidelines of a panel discussion at University College London, part of an ongoing tour of European countries. He said he had met with E.U. regulators to discuss the AI act as part of his tour, and added that OpenAI had "a lot" of criticisms of the way the act is currently worded. Altman said that OpenAI's skepticism centered on the E.U. law's designation of "high risk" systems as it is currently drafted. The law is still undergoing revisions, but under its current wording it may require large AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4 to be designated as "high risk," forcing the companies behind them to comply with additional safety requirements.

As you've undoubtedly noticed, AI-related news is everywhere, and its influence continues to grow. Just last week, OpenAI released an iOS version of ChatGPT (an Android version is coming soon) that runs directly on your iPhone and adds the ability to speak your request for information into its interactive chatbot user interface. Now, Microsoft has announced that it's bringing a range of new generative AI-powered features to Windows 11 starting in June. The main component is called Windows Copilot, a set of text-driven assistive capabilities that make using your PC easier and more intuitive. The company also announced the ability to integrate Bing Chat plug-ins into Windows, meaning that many of the impressive capabilities Microsoft brought to its Bing search engine will be available directly in Windows.

Over the next decade, "it's conceivable that … AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today's largest corporations," the OpenAI team wrote. "In terms of both potential upsides and downsides, superintelligence will be more powerful than other technologies humanity has had to contend with in the past. We can have a dramatically more prosperous future; but we have to manage risk to get there."

Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' Educational leaders at top U.K. schools are taking concerns over artificial intelligence into their own hands, forming an advisory board on the technology and warning AI's risks pose the "greatest threat" to schools. The United Kingdom is predicting AI could make a "transformative change" to its education system, according to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, who said the technology could take the "heavy lifting out" of a teacher's day-to-day duties, such as compiling lesson plans. Following the release of ChatGPT last year, students across the world have reported using the technology to assist with school work, such as for research for term papers. Eight educators penned a letter to The Times of London this month warning that, though AI could serve as a useful tool to students and teachers, the technology's risks are considered schools' "greatest threat."

Texas residents share how familiar they are with artificial intelligence on a scale from one to 10 and detailed how much they use it each day. AUSTIN, Texas – Americans in the Lone Star state shared how familiar they are with artifical intelligence and how much they use the rapidly evolving technology. "I like to use ChatGPT just for stupid questions that I have or just to mess around or something like that," Gabriel, of Austin, told Fox News. AI has rapidly evolved in recent months, with tools like ChatGPT becoming more accessible and easier to use for the broader public. But the majority of people who spoke with Fox News said they didn't use AI technologies in their daily lives.