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Machine learning

  • Machine Learning (journal)Machine Learning, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, had been running for fifteen years when its own editors turned on its publisher.
  • Mechanistic interpretabilityChris Olah coined the term mechanistic interpretability to describe reverse-engineering neural networks. Before this moment, researchers mostly looked at…
  • Developmental roboticsDevelopmental robotics asks a question that would have seemed absurd not long ago: can a machine learn the way a child does?
  • Fine-tuning (deep learning)Fine-tuning begins when a neural network trained for one task meets new data. The original model, known as the upstream task, must now perform a different…
  • Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trainingIn 2021, OpenAI released a model called RN50 that processed images and text into single vectors. These vectors lived in a shared space where similar pairs…
  • Claude (language model)Anthropic released the first version of Claude in March 2023. This initial model remained exclusive to a small group of selected users approved by the…
  • Machine learningMachine learning is the field that gave us a computer program capable of beating the world's top players at Go, a game long considered too intuitive for…
  • Hugging FaceClément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf founded Hugging Face in 2016. They established the company in New York City with a specific goal.
  • Generative artificial intelligenceIn 1906, Russian mathematician Andrey Markov introduced a concept that would eventually birth generative artificial intelligence.
  • Transfer learningTransfer learning is a technique in machine learning where knowledge built up on one task gets applied to a different but related task.
  • Apprenticeship learningApprenticeship learning asks a deceptively simple question: what if a machine could learn not from rules, but from watching?
  • Fairness (machine learning)The year 1964 marked a turning point in American history when the U.S. Civil Rights Act passed into law. This legislation sparked intense debate within the…
  • Pattern recognitionPattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. Every time a bank flags an unusual transaction…
  • Attention (machine learning)In the 1950s, researchers studied how humans focus on specific sounds while ignoring background noise. This phenomenon became known as the cocktail party…
  • Hallucination (artificial intelligence)In 1986, Eric Mjolsness used the word hallucination in his PhD thesis to describe a computer vision process that added detail to an image.