Archive - The Gradient

Manuel & Lenore Blum: The Conscious Turing Machine

On consciousness, theoretical computer science, academic influences, and pursuing lifelong interests.

Jul 25 •

2:23:04

Kevin Dorst: Against Irrationalist Narratives

Why your (political) opponents are more rational than you think.

Jul 18 •

2:15:20

Update #79: Does AI Music Have a Future? Can Vision-Language Models See?

Two leading AI music startups are sued by major record labels; researchers find that VLMs are poor at understanding basic spatial information.

Jul 16 •

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David Pfau: Manifold Factorization and AI for Science

On learning to disentangle manifolds, deep learning and quantum mechanics, and doing meaningful, interesting research.

Jul 11 •

2:00:52

Mini-Update #44: OpenAI Security Breach and Accessible Diffusion Models

OpenAI insiders reveal security breach a year later, and researchers at Apple partner with other organizations to produce a tutorial on developing…

Jul 11 •

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Dan Hart and Michelle Michael: Bringing AI to Students in New South Wales

On delivering better education with AI.

Jul 4 •

1:13:54

Update #78: Accelerating Candy Crush Development and Neural Network Flexibility

Activision Blizzard scientists discuss AI's role in Candy Crush; researchers study neural networks' flexibility in fitting data.

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June 2024

Kristin Lauter: Private AI, Homomorphic Encryption, and AI for Cryptography

On developing cryptographic protocols, their mathematical foundations and real-world implementation, Private AI, and AI for cryptography.

Jun 27 •

1:17:12

Mini-Update #43: OpenAI buys Rockset and Diffusion on Syntax Trees for Code Generation

OpenAI buys Rockset in a bid to enhance its retrieval capabilities and researchers train a diffusion model to write code to produce images

Jun 26 •

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Sergiy Nesterenko: Automating Circuit Board Design

On automating PCB design with reinforcement learning, difficulties in PCB design automation, and dealing with skepticism.

Jun 20 •

1:03:35

Update #77: AI-Generated News Cannibalizes Journalism and Open-Endedness for Superintelligence

BNN Breaking turns out to be an AI chop shop; DeepMind argues that open-endedness is essential for "superintelligent" systems.

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C. Thi Nguyen: Values, Legibility, and Gamification

On legibility, projectivism a la Hume, value capture, and epistemic arms races.

Jun 13 •

1:30:13

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