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Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.
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This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?
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Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.
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Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.
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Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.
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Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces
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Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.
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Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.
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More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems
In machine learning, an easy task and a more difficult version of the same task — say, a maze that covers a smaller or larger area — often are learned separately.
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AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target
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Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google