Google sets new record for calculating pi — but what’s the point?

Jun09
by on June 9, 2022 at 9:39 pm
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Developers have set a new record in the endless quest to accurately calculate pi. A team led by Google Cloud’s Emma Haruka Iwao found 100 TRILLION digits of the mathematical constant — smashing the previous benchmark of 31.4 trillion. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Credit: Google Brainiacs have sought to extend Pi’s for millennia, but in recent years the digits have increased exponentially. Advances in computing are now causing records to regularly tumble. A 2019 milestone that was also set by Iwao was surpassed within months. That landmark was then overturned the next year,…

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An AI chatbot trained on 4chan has sparked outrage and fascination

Jun08
by on June 8, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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If you’re concerned about the biases and bigotry of AI models, you’re gonna love the latest addition to the ranks: a text generator trained on 4chan’s /pol/ board. Short for “Politically Incorrect,” /pol/ is a bastion of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and far-right extremism. It’s also 4chan’s most active board, accumulating around 150,000 daily posts. These attributes attracted Yannick Kilcher, an AI whizz and YouTuber, to use /pol/ as a testing ground for bots. Kilcher first fine-tunedthe GPT-J language model on over 134.5 million posts made on /pol/ across three and a half years. He then incorporated the board’s thread structure…

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IBM AI captains uncrewed ship across the Atlantic using business logic

Jun07
by on June 7, 2022 at 8:26 pm
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An uncrewed vessel dubbed “Mayflower” recently completed the first fully autonomous transatlantic journey on the open sea. Powered by IBM’s AI, the ship was designed and built by non-profit maritime research organization Promare. Its purpose is to boldly go where no robot has gone before, and collect oodles of data from our oceans. Up front: IBM isn’t exactly in the autonomous boating business. We’re probably not going to see Big Blue selling robo-yachts anytime soon. Instead, IBM’s involvement is more about showcasing the robust nature of its machine learning tools. Per an IBM white paper: Just as IBM has been…

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