This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of "Artificial Intelligence Failures." Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that ...

Introduction Tree boosting has empirically proven to be efficient for predictive mining for both classification and regression. For many years, MART (multiple additive regression trees) has been the ...

In the new paper Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, a team from Stanford University and Google Research presents agents that draw on generative models to simulate both ...

Large Foundation Models (LFMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 have demonstrated impressive zero-shot learning capabilities on a wide range of tasks. Their successes can be credited to model and dataset ...

Facebook AI Chief Yann LeCun introduced his now-famous “cake analogy” at NIPS 2016: “If intelligence is a cake, the bulk of the cake is unsupervised learning, the icing on the cake is supervised ...

Recent advancements in training large multimodal models have been driven by efforts to eliminate modeling constraints and unify architectures across domains. Despite these strides, many existing ...

Moody Moving Faces: NVIDIA’s SPACEx Delivers High-Quality Portrait Animation with Controllable Expression In the new paper SPACEx: Speech-driven Portrait Animation with Controllable Expression, an ...

Just hours after making waves and triggering a backlash on social media, Genderify — an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has ...