Last Week in AI

Every week, my team at Invector Labs publishes a newsletter that covers the most recent developments in AI research and technology. You can find this week’s issue below. You can sign up for it below. Please do so, our guys worked really hard on this:

From the Editor: The Most Controversial AI of the Year

Earlier this year, artificial intelligence(AI) research lab OpenAI made headlines when it unveiled an AI model so great at creating fake news that many people thought it was too dangerous to release it. Named GPT-2, the model uses hundreds of millions of attributes for generating fake text that is indistinguishable from real news. is Despite the criticism, OpenAI proceeded to release several updates to the model including its latest one that leverages 1.5 billion parameters.

The controversy surrounding GPT-2 is far from trivial. While it is scary what bad actors can do manipulating the GPT-2 code, we should also think that the model can help with the creation of algorithms for detecting fake news. After all, those type of algorithms need massive labeled datasets for training and what better way to create those datasets than by using the best model at generating fake news out there. Certainly controversial.

Now let’s take a look at the core developments in AI research and technology this week: