GPT-3 aces tests of reasoning by analogy
Undergrads get beaten on questions like those that helped get them into college.
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New legged robots designed to explore planets as a team
Read more: New legged robots designed to explore planets as a teamEven if one robot fails, the rest of the team can offset its loss.
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citizen science, computer science, Distributed computing, protein folding, Science, SETI, Tech Industry, Tech News
Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the backdrop?
Read more: Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the backdrop?There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.
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Hitting the Books: Why AI won’t be taking our cosmology jobs
Read more: Hitting the Books: Why AI won’t be taking our cosmology jobsThe problem with studying the universe around us is that it is simply too big. The stars overhead remain too far away to interact with directly, so we are relegated to testing our theories on the formation of the galaxies based on observable data. …
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computer science, computing, Intel, Physics, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, Science, Tech, Tech Industry, Tech News
Intel to start shipping a quantum processor
Read more: Intel to start shipping a quantum processorThe 12-qubit device will go out to a few academic research labs.
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IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of quantum processor
Read more: IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of quantum processorMay be a way to squeeze useful work out before we get quantum error correction.
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AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade
Read more: AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decadeWriting efficient code was turned into a game, and the AI played to win.
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AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users
Read more: AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their usersA biased “assistant” was able to influence the arguments made in essays.
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Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things
Read more: Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel thingsGetting it to work required integrating multiple types of machine learning.
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When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star student
Read more: When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star studentAI’s ability to handle math depends on what exactly you ask it to do.
