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The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have…

We take a deep dive into American English. It’s influences from native American, immigrants from across the world, slaves, religion … source

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Scientists at the UCL Institute for Neurology have developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterise subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. The…

Words from a “lost” language spoken more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered on an ancient clay tablet unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered the tablet earlier this year during…

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An age-old adage, often introduced to us during our formative years, is designed to nudge us beyond our self-centered, nascent minds: “Two heads are better than one.” This proverb encourages…

Powerful machine-learning algorithms known as vision and language models, which learn to match text with images, have shown remarkable results when asked to generate captions or summarize videos. While these…

ChatGPT has made headlines around the world with its ability to write essays, email, and computer code based on a few prompts from a user. Now an MIT-led team reports…

Socrates once said: “It is not the size of a thing, but the quality that truly matters. For it is in the nature of substance, not its volume, that true…

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Discovering new materials and drugs typically involves a manual, trial-and-error process that can take decades and cost millions of dollars. To streamline this process, scientists often use machine learning to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Stanford team has developed Sophia, a new way to optimize the pretraining of large language models that’s twice as fast as current approaches. ChatGPT and…

The options for learning a new language in 2023 are nearly unlimited. This is a great thing overall, but it can also lead to its own problems. With so many…

The way that native English speakers communicate and the way you learn English at school is often quite different. In this lesson … source

There’s not necessarily a wrong time of day to learn a language. Whether you do a lesson with your morning coffee, listen to a podcast during your evening commute or…

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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results…