#Tech Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—pr...
Thursday, May 13, 2021
CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Five ways your academic research skills transfer to industry
Graduate students are often coached to pursue a career in higher education, yet the number of available tenure-track positions falls far short of the number of candidates looking to fill them. In reality, about 14 percent of graduates with advance...
Monday, February 10, 2020
Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a...
ZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters
The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed...
Friday, February 7, 2020
AI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
A new document in a word processor can be a magical thing, a blank page onto which thoughts and ideas are put forth as quickly as we can input text. We can select words and phrases to underline and highlight and add images, shapes, and bulleted li...
AI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
A new document in a word processor can be a magical thing, a blank page onto which thoughts and ideas are put forth as quickly as we can input text. We can select words and phrases to underline and highlight and add images, shapes, and bulleted li...