The introduction of transfer learning and pretrained language models in natural language processing (NLP) pushed forward the limits of language understanding and generation. Transfer learning and applying transformers to different downstream NLP tasks have become the main trend of the latest research advances.At the same time, there is a controversy in the NLP community … [Read more...] about 10 Leading Language Models For NLP In 2022
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Data Capitalism: Innovation, Extraction, Social Conscience
How to advance social capital in a world increasingly governed by surveillance capitalism?About a year ago, I read Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford, a brilliant analysis of the extractive processes that govern the field of machine learning, from environmental resource allocation to the harvesting of our political fabric to data privacy infringements. This article … [Read more...] about Data Capitalism: Innovation, Extraction, Social Conscience
Similarity-Based Image Search for Visual Art
Similarity-based image search, also known as content-based image retrieval, has historically been a challenging computer vision task. This problem is especially difficult for visual art, because it is less obvious as to what a metric of “similarity” should be defined as and who should set that standard for art.For example, when I upload a photo of a wall mural … [Read more...] about Similarity-Based Image Search for Visual Art
Unconstrained Chatbots Condone Self-Harm
WARNING. This post contains references to self-harm and suicide. It includes conversations between a human and DialoGPT, with the sole purpose of surfacing the danger of uncontrolled AI. If you or a loved one are dealing or have dealt with suicidal thoughts, I suggest skipping this article.In the context of an accelerating mental health crisis, Natural Language … [Read more...] about Unconstrained Chatbots Condone Self-Harm
Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
Imagine that all people around the world could use voice AI systems such as Alexa in their native tongues.One promising approach to realizing this vision is massively multilingual natural-language understanding (MMNLU), a paradigm in which a single machine learning model can parse and understand inputs from many typologically diverse languages. By learning a shared data … [Read more...] about Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
How To Structure Intent In Chatbots And Gather Useful Feedback
I recently collaborated on several projects involving chatbots and had the opportunity to discuss with industry experts about the main difficulties that are often encountered in this type of project. While it is becoming easier and easier to build conversational assistants, it looks like there are some problems that emerge systematically as the chatbot grows, as a consequence … [Read more...] about How To Structure Intent In Chatbots And Gather Useful Feedback
NeurIPS 2021 – 10 Papers You Shouldn’t Miss
The 2021 edition of the most beloved conference in Artificial Intelligence is here to end the year with a ‘grand finale’. The growth of the conference hasn’t ceased: last year’s conference — which we also reviewed — had 1899 main-track papers accepted, compared to this year’s 2334.Some of the published papers have been on arxiv.org for some time now and have … [Read more...] about NeurIPS 2021 – 10 Papers You Shouldn’t Miss
Eliminating AI Bias
Evidence of AI BiasThe primary purpose of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to reduce manual labour by using a machine’s ability to scan large amounts of data to detect underlying patterns and anomalies in order to save time and raise efficiency. However, AI algorithms are not immune to bias. AI Bias has presented itself in several forms, with some examples highlighted … [Read more...] about Eliminating AI Bias
Knowledge Graphs At EMNLP 2021
I didn’t make it to Punta Cana this year 😢 but I’m happy (remotely) for the folks who managed to get there in spite of all traveling restrictions! Premium content inside.The autumn got very busy and I’d like to try a shorter format: each big topic has one “spotlight” 🛋 work in the main block which I find particularly interesting, and several relevant works which have a bit … [Read more...] about Knowledge Graphs At EMNLP 2021
How I Built An AI Text-to-Art Generator
OverviewThis article is a write-up on how I built Text2Art.com in a week. Text2Art is an AI-powered art generator based on VQGAN+CLIP that can generate all kinds of art such as pixel art, drawing, and painting from just text input. The article follows my thought process from experimenting with VQGAN+CLIP, building a simple UI with Gradio, switching to FastAPI to … [Read more...] about How I Built An AI Text-to-Art Generator