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Minecraft with object impermanence

I generally am uninterested in generative AI that’s too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there’s a modern AI thing that’s so glitchy and broken that it’s strangely compelling. There’s this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard at being Minecraft that it becomes something else. Trained on…

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Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for clean labeled data. Jonathan Frankle, chief AI scientist at Databricks, spent the past year talking to customers about the key challenges they face in getting…

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