Company
Date Published
Author
Ashley Binford
Word count
1241
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The latest issue of The Comet Newsletter discusses various topics in the machine learning (ML) industry, including an upcoming Q&A event focused on building creative user interfaces with ML, featuring experts Hart Woolery and Victor Dibia. It highlights contributions to an AI art gallery project using CLIPDraw, and outlines significant industry developments such as Microsoft's launch of a 135 billion-parameter neural network, MEB, which enhances Bing's search capabilities by improving language understanding beyond semantic relationships. The newsletter also explores the concept of a new theory of intelligence needed to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), emphasizing the differences between biological intelligence and current AI systems. Additionally, Google has introduced two new datasets, TimeDial and Disfl-QA, aimed at improving conversational AI systems by addressing temporal reasoning and speech disfluencies, respectively.