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Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

Futurism

This rampant AI problem is, according to researchers who spoke to the Wall Street Journal , rooted in a reticence to be caught not knowing something. The Hasso Plattner researchers say they've devised a way to intervene early in the AI training process to teach models about the concept of uncertainty.

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DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

Singularity Hub

Although some of todays models can generalize a skill across similar problems, they struggle to transfer those skills across more complex tasks requiring multiple steps. This is a notoriously hard problem and the results are fantastic. Thats the problem with sparse rewards.

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AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

Fast Company Tech

It will never replace our capacity for thinking, and can, in fact, reinforce bias because it is learning what we teach it. Algorithms reinforce biases More and more, our capacity to think, create, and problem-solve is being challenged by algorithms delivered through social media. Heres why: 1.

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Why are read receipts so triggering?

Mashable Tech

What was the problem? If you’re playing that game, be careful: “We teach people how to treat us. And they teach us how to treat them,” says Grant. . “Now, he says he doesn’t trust her,” says Grant. It raised questions like Why would she wait?

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4 Ways to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Storytelling with WhatsApp

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. WhatsApp recently announced that it will soon enable group video calls of up to eight people , which nonprofits can use for donor updates, presentations, and even teaching.

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From training dogs to intelligent machines: Here's how reinforcement learning is teaching AI

Fast Company Tech

The reinforcement learning problem in AI is how to design agents that achieve their goals by perceiving and acting in their environments. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone

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Natural Language Generation Inside Out: Teaching Machines to Write Like Humans

Machine Learning Mastery

Natural language generation (NLG) is an enthralling area of artificial intelligence (AI) , or more specifically of natural language processing (NLP) , aimed at enabling machines to produce human-like text that drives human-machine communication for problem-solving.

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