AI Just Flew a Fighter Jet for 17 Hours, Commanded Super Mario Bros and More

Recent AI and machine-learning updates highlight Meta’s Toolformer, which is designed to learn when and how to use external APIs to improve language-model tasks, Google researchers’ 22-billion-parameter vision transformer demonstrating benefits in downstream performance, robustness, fairness trade-offs, and visual alignment, and MarioGPT, a GPT-2-based system that generates controllable Super Mario Bros. levels from text prompts. Product announcements include YouChat 2.0, a multimodal search and conversational AI platform, and Yext Chat, an enterprise chatbot intended to integrate with systems such as Slack and ticketing tools, while the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School reported more than 17 hours of AI-controlled flight in Lockheed Martin’s VISTA X-62A experimental aircraft. The update also features a tutorial for deploying OpenAI Whisper in a web interface, community projects for materials-discovery machine learning and hyperparameter optimization with Lightning, the launch of Lightning’s AI Buzz podcast, and upcoming 2023 submission deadlines for UAI, IROS, Interspeech, CoLLAs, and ICCV.

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