Google AI Engineer Blake Lemoine Claims LaMDA is Truly Sentient
AI and Data Science NewsGoogleLaMDAposted by ODSC Team July 29, 2022
The question of sentience and Artificial Intelligence is again in the news and outside the confines of science fiction. News broke back in June that former Google Engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed that the company’s AI Chatbox, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications, and Lemoine) had become... Read more
Is LaMDA Really Sentient? No, Far From it.
ModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsGoogleLaMDAposted by ODSC Community July 18, 2022
LaMDA, Google’s breakthrough conversation technology, is nothing but a transformer-based language model. So first, let’s answer the question: what really happened? Recently, a Google AI engineer, Blake Lemoine, raised the eyebrows of tech regulators, software developers, and anyone interested in knowing about sentient AI. He claimed... Read more
Google AI Introduces New DeepCTRL Method to Train Models
Deep LearningModelingGoogleposted by April Miller April 11, 2022
In early 2022, Google AI began releasing details about an exciting new method for training deep neural networks: DeepCTRL. Google’s AI team found a way to control rule strength and accuracy in deep neural networks, allowing for improvements in some crucial AI applications. DeepCTRL is more... Read more
Deep Learning Could Aid Medical Professionals in Improved Medical Ventilator Control, Google AI Proposes
AI and Data Science NewsHealthcareGoogleposted by April Miller March 24, 2022
Mechanical ventilators have gained a lot of publicity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These medical devices are one of the most crucial tools hospitals have for supporting patients with breathing troubles, but running them effectively can be challenging. Google AI seems to have devised a solution. In... Read more
Unpacking YouTube’s Recommender System
Data Science Academic ResearchMachine LearningModelingGooglerecommender systemyoutubeposted by ODSC Team October 15, 2019
Over the past couple of years, YouTube has come under fire for its recommender system, with the media suggesting that it is promoting violent content, or banning LGBT content for violating its terms of service. Seemingly in response to all of this, Google has finally released... Read more
10 Tips to Get Started with Kaggle
ModelingGoogleKaggleMachine Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 17, 2018
Kaggle is a well-known community website for data scientists to compete in machine learning challenges. Competitive machine learning can be a great way to hone your skills, as well as demonstrate your skills. In this article, I will provide 10 useful tips to get started with... Read more
Six Big Companies That Use Visual Search
Business + ManagementAmazoneBayForever 21GoogleSnapchatvisual searchWayfairposted by Paxtyn Merten October 30, 2018
Companies that use visual search are able to achieve next-level ease and opportunity for people trying to figure things out. Searching with images allows people to find what they’re looking for without having the words to describe it. This is a powerful modern affordance, especially for... Read more
Google Dataset Search Launched to Help Analysts Scour Repositories
ToolsGoogleposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC October 18, 2018
Google Dataset Search is a new product in the beta phase that you can use to find datasets published online. The single interface allows you to search repositories worldwide. Imagine you start a new analytics project. For example, let’s say you want to explore numbers pertaining to Boston... Read more