How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What’s the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach?
Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools and how authors need to embrace the possibilities rather than reject them. Read More
Daily Archives: August 17, 2021
DeepMind unveils PonderNet, just please don’t call it ‘pondering’
DeepMind scientists suggest a way for a computer program to calculate whether or not to give up calculating. But Edgar Allan Poe would not have recognized it as “pondering.”
If you’re going to follow the news in artificial intelligence, you had better have a copy of an English dictionary with you, and maybe a couple of etymological dictionaries as well.
Today’s deep learning forms of AI are proliferating uses of ordinary words that can be potentially deeply misleading. That includes suggesting that the machine is actually doing something that a person does, such as thinking, reasoning, knowing, seeing, wondering.
The latest example is a new program from DeepMind, the AI unit of Google based in London. DeepMind researchers on Thursday unveiled what they call PonderNet, a program that can make a choice about whether to explore possibilities for a problem or to give up. Read More
Samsung Has Its Own AI-Designed Chip. Soon, Others Will Too
SAMSUNG IS USING artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of designing cutting-edge computer chips.
br>The South Korean giant is one of the first chipmakers to use AI to create its chips. Samsung is using AI features in new software from Synopsys, a leading chip design software firm used by many companies. “What you’re seeing here is the first of a real commercial processor design with AI,” says Aart de Geus, the chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys.
Others, including Google and Nvidia, have talked about designing chips with AI. But Synopsys’ tool, called DSO.ai, may prove the most far-reaching because Synopsys works with dozens of companies. The tool has the potential to accelerate semiconductor development and unlock novel chip designs, according to industry watchers. Read More
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