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An introduction to data science and machine learning with Microsoft Excel
Demystifying deep learning
How reinforcement learning chooses the ads you see
Reinforcement learning challenge to push boundaries of embodied AI
What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence
Evolution, rewards, and artificial intelligence
An introduction to object detection with deep learning
What OpenAI and GitHub’s “AI pair programmer” means for the software industry
Building artificial intelligence: Reward is not enough
Can AI learn to reason about the world like children?
To create AGI, we need a new theory of intelligence
What is federated learning?
Demystifying deep reinforcement learning
The age of AI-ism
The understanding debate
AI’s J-curve and upcoming productivity boom
Neuro-symbolic AI brings us closer to machines with common sense
DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model
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A framework for enterprise AI adoption
Large language models have a reasoning problem
Large language models can’t plan, even if they write fancy essays
Can GPT-3 be honest when it speaks nonsense?
What is the 'forward-forward' algorithm, Geoffrey Hinton's new AI technique?
Why applied artificial intelligence needs a major mind-shift
AI21 Labs' mission to make large language models get their facts right
What we learned from the deep learning revolution
A look at open-source alternatives to ChatGPT
ChatGPT will make the web toxic for its successors
The truth about ChatGPT's degrading capabilities
The promising alliance of generative and discriminative AI
The science of (artificial) intelligence
How ChatGPT Search affects the broader AI landscape
How AI learns intuitive physics from watching videos


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