Not DALL·E 2, not PaLM, not AlphaZero, not even GPT-3. — You may be wondering if such a bold headline is true. The answer is yes. Let me explain why. GPT-3 came out in 2020 and established a new road the whole AI industry has been following in intention and attention since. Tech companies have repeatedly built better, larger models, one…

The end of art or a new beginning? — The following is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational newsletter about the AI that matters to your life. Its purpose is to help you understand the impact AI has in our world and develop the tools to better navigate the future. Are we going to soon witness the…

I highly recommend reading until the end. — The following is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational newsletter about the AI that matters to your life. Its purpose is to help you understand the impact AI has in our world and develop the tools to better navigate the future. The Algorithmic Bridge Bridging the gap between algorithms and people. A newsletter about the AI that matters to your life Let me read it…thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com

With images and videos that you most likely haven’t seen. — DALL·E 2 is the newest AI model by OpenAI. If you’ve seen some of its creations and think they’re amazing, keep reading to understand why you’re totally right — but also wrong. OpenAI published a blog post and a paper entitled “Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents” on DALL·E…

And 3 barriers that separate us from the truth — whatever it is. — The hot topic in AI this week comes from the now ex-Google senior engineer Blake Lemoine. He claims that Google’s large language model LaMDA is sentient. In a viral article for the Washington Post, Nitasha Tiku wrote about how Lemoine concluded, after a span of a few months of interaction…

Bridging the gap between algorithms and people. — I’m launching a newsletter called The Algorithmic Bridge motivated by the realization that my friends and family know nothing — or very little — about artificial intelligence and how it influences the world we live in. This is also the case for most people — maybe that includes you. With…

A solution to the labor shortage or a new obstacle for workers? — Manufacturing companies are using a robot-as-employee approach to combat the labor shortage flooding the US. Since the pandemic started, the US has suffered from a highly unusual shortage of workers. The fear of the virus and the bad working conditions have incited many people to leave the workforce. Covid immigration…

Famous roboticist Rodney Brooks says we aren’t close to full autonomy — Companies have been promising self-driving tech for 80 years now. Despite what some may think, we’re not remotely there yet. Press releases and news articles about autonomous vehicle (AV) companies tend to overstate the stage of development of fully self-driving technology or, at least, obscure details that would remind analysts…

Official info, current trends, and predictions. — The day for the release of GPT-4 is getting closer. GPT-3 was announced in May 2020, almost two years ago. It was released one year after GPT-2 — which was also released a year after the original GPT paper was published. If this trend were to hold across versions, GPT-4…