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AI Research Opportunities: Pursuing an Advanced Degree and a Career in Academia

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Artificial intelligence isn’t the industry for intellectual lightweights. As a transformational technology that is likely to touch every aspect of the economy and society, it’s a field that needs top thinkers. And as a kind of computation that challenges the outer reaches of our understanding of math, statistics, and learning algorithms, it’s a world where […]

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What AI Engineers Need to Know About Generative AI Hallucinations

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For all that generative artificial intelligence models have exceeded expectations for creativity, conversation, and relevance, there is one big glaring problem hanging over them: they sometimes lie like fiends. When posed questions that have objective, factual, and verifiable answers, somewhere between three and ten percent of the time generatively pre-trained large language models (LLMs) will

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The Big Decision: Should You Make a Career in General or Narrow Artificial Intelligence?

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Outside the AI industry, there’s not a lot of recognition that the kind of machine intelligence that most people think of is not really the kind of system that most companies are working on today. It’s all just AI to them. But to experts in artificial intelligence, there is a great divide in the world

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The History of AI is Marked with Missed Forecasts and Overly Ambitious Predictions… Why This Time is Different

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Winter is coming. References from the canon of popular sci-fi and fantasy are never lost on folks who run in AI circles. So when you hear the chilling words spoken, they reach deep down into the psyche and twist your stomach into a tight nervous ball. In the world of AI, winter may not bring

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A Day in the Life of an AI Engineer: An Insider’s Peek for Prospective Students

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There’s an air of mystery surrounding what exactly goes on behind the scenes at companies leading in the development of artificial intelligence. AI development is a field that has been swathed in secrecy. Companies treat their developments as trade secrets. Engineers are signed to strict non-disclosure agreements, and offices are heavy on both physical and

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The Evolution of AI Education: From Online Training Courses to Full Degrees

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If you woke up some random morning in 2023 and suddenly noticed that you were seeing a lot of articles and social media posts about artificial intelligence that hadn’t been there the day before, no, you weren’t going crazy. A subject that was once reserved for science fiction and the distant halls of deep academia

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