Day: January 30, 2023

ChatGPT: Study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Some of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce highly readable answers to questions, the publishers are worried that inaccurate or plagiarized work could enter the pages of academic literature. Several researchers have already Read more about ChatGPT: Study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it[…]

MusicLM generates music from text descriptions – pretty awesome

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We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as “a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff”. MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and it generates music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes. Our experiments show that MusicLM Read more about MusicLM generates music from text descriptions – pretty awesome[…]

An ALS patient set a record communicating through a brain implant: 62 words per minute

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Eight years ago, a patient lost her power of speech because of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which causes progressive paralysis. She can still make sounds, but her words have become unintelligible, leaving her reliant on a writing board or iPad to communicate. Now, after volunteering to receive a brain implant, the woman has been Read more about An ALS patient set a record communicating through a brain implant: 62 words per minute[…]

This teacher has adopted ChatGPT into the syllabus

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[…] Ever since the chatbot ChatGPT launched in November, educators have raised concerns it could facilitate cheating. Some school districts have banned access to the bot, and not without reason. The artificial intelligence tool from the company OpenAI can compose poetry. It can write computer code. It can maybe even pass an MBA exam. One Read more about This teacher has adopted ChatGPT into the syllabus[…]

ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code

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AI bot ChatGPT has been put to the test on a number of tasks in recent weeks, and its latest challenge comes courtesy of computer science researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University and University College London, who find(Opens in a new window) that ChatGPT can weed out errors with sample code and fix it better than Read more about ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code[…]