Episode 492: Are AI Models Learning To Generalize?

We begin this episode with Paul Rosenzweig describing major progress in teaching AI models to do text-to-speech Amazon flagged its new model as having “emergent” capabilities in handling what had been serious problems – things like speaking with emotion, or conveying foreign phrases. The key is the size of the training set, but Amazon was able to spot the point at which more data led to unexpected skills. This leads Paul and me to speculate that training AI models to …

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