For more than a decade, Alexander Huth from the University of Texas at Austin had been striving to build a language decoder—a tool that could extract a person’s thoughts noninvasively from brain ...
The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on ...
Learning English is no easy task, as countless students well know. But when the student is a computer, one approach works surprisingly well: Simply feed mountains of text from the internet to a giant ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous progress since its inception, and neural networks are usually part of that advancement. Neural networks that apply weights to variables in AI models ...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is seeking information on established techniques, metrics and capabilities related to the evaluation of generated text and the evaluation of ...
A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go. In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York ...