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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

<!-- We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by...

AI can detect serious neurologic changes in babies in the NICU using video data alone

A team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers at Mount Sinai trained a deep learning pose-recognition algorithm on video feeds of infants in the...

Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor, researchers report

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human...

Science and technology stories in the age of Trump

Some of these changes will be well outside our lane as a publication. But very many of President-elect Trump’s stated policy goals...

The Download: AI in Africa, and reporting in the age of Trump

It is easy to convince ourselves that we now live in a dematerialized ethereal world, ruled by digital startups, artificial intelligence, and financial...

A bold AI movement is underway in Africa—but it’s being held up

It’s unclear what’s behind the second strategy, but Seydina Ndiaye, a program director at the Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University in Dakar who...

The Download: AI vs quantum, and the future of reproductive rights in the US

Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that they’ll be a game changer...

Introducing mall for R…and Python

The beginning A few months ago, while working on the Databricks with R workshop, I came across some of their custom SQL functions. These particular...

The Download: Ice-melting robots, and genetically modified trees

At long last, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way. It launched on October 14 and is now en route to...

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