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WTF is AI?


What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works.

In scientific fields, AI does something similar to large piles of data — astronomical observations, protein interactions, clinical outcomes — as it does with language, mapping it out and finding patterns in it. Entire websites, portfolios, libraries full of books, papers, transcriptions of conversations — all this was hoovered up by the people who assembled databases like “Common Crawl” and LAION-5B, without asking anyone’s consent. Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging…

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