Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
A scathing decision from Facebook’s Oversight Board shows a better way to work through platform rules in public than via a billionaire’s late-night tweets.
Evercade EXP Review: Vertical Scrolling, Sub-Par Build
The retro gamer’s fave gets a screen-flipping upgrade, but not without some serious trade-offs.
ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS
The AI chatbot was trained on text created by humans. Of course its writing is superficially impressive and lacking in substance.
ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap
When large language models fall short, the consequences can be serious. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that?
8 Best Smartwatches (2022): Apple Watch, Wear OS 3, Hybrid Watches
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
DeepMind’s AlphaCode attains ‘average’ rating in programming competition
A team of researchers at DeepMind has tackled another difficult task—generating computer code to satisfy a natural language request. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the approach they used in creating their AI app and outline how well it did when pitted against human programmers. J. Zico Kolter with Carnegie …
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Production Infrastructure at Palantir: User-minded API design
Intro It’s trendy right now for organizations to describe themselves as “outcome-oriented,” where members of the organization are accountable for the results of their work. The Production Infrastructure group at Palantir commits itself to being oriented around our users’ outcomes — but how does this translate into building good software? Our users’ outcomes are often dictated by …
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Formation of Robust Bound States of Interacting Photons
Posted by Alexis Morvan and Trond Andersen, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI When quantum computers were first proposed, they were hoped to be a way to better understand the quantum world. With a so-called “quantum simulator,” one could engineer a quantum computer to investigate how various quantum phenomena arise, including those that are intractable to …
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Prepare data from Amazon EMR for machine learning using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Data preparation is a principal component of machine learning (ML) pipelines. In fact, it is estimated that data professionals spend about 80 percent of their time on data preparation. In this intensive competitive market, teams want to analyze data and extract more meaningful insights quickly. Customers are adopting more efficient and visual ways to build …
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Exafunction supports AWS Inferentia to unlock best price performance for machine learning inference
Across all industries, machine learning (ML) models are getting deeper, workflows are getting more complex, and workloads are operating at larger scales. Significant effort and resources are put into making these models more accurate since this investment directly results in better products and experiences. On the other hand, making these models run efficiently in production …