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Big language models can't plan, even if they write fancy essays

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This article is part of our coverage of the latest AI research. Large language models such as GPT-3 have grown to the point where it is difficult to measure the limits of their capabilities. When you have a very large neural network that can produce articles, write software code, and engage in conversations about feelings and life, you should expect it to be able to reason about tasks and plans like humans do, right? Wrong. A study by researchers at Arizona State University, Tempe, showed that when it comes to planning and methodical thinking, LLMs perform very poorly, and suffer from many of the same failures observed in today’s deep learning systems. Regards, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for weekly recaps of our favorite AI stories in your inbox. Interestingly, this study found that, although very large LLMs such as GPT-3 and PaLM pass many tests intended to evaluate reasoning abilities and artificial intelligence systems, they do so because these benchmarks are t...

Lydia loves her career in mining, but very few of her role models look like her

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Lydia Gentle has loved every minute of the 17 years she has spent working in the resources sector. Key points: One in five workers in Queensland’s resource industry are now women, up from 6 per cent in 2006 The sector is still far from the Queensland Resource Council’s target of 30 per cent female labor force participation by 2026 Not everyone agrees that targets are the solution to achieving a diverse workforce But it’s not easy cutting his teeth in a male-dominated industry. “When I started, even when I was at university, I was probably one of the few women out of over 100 men,” Ms Gentle said. “I didn’t realize it was a male-dominated industry when I started studying, but I learned it very quickly.” She said the lack of visibility of women in the industry, especially in leadership positions, made her feel out of place. “I don’t really have any female role models I can respect,” she said. “It’s very difficul...

Worms as models for personalized medicine

Tailoring a person’s diet or medications based on their genome has been a goal of the medical community for decades, but the strategy has not been widely successful because people metabolize chemicals differently. A drug may work differently for two patients because they have different metabolisms, which may be due to genetic, environmental, or microbial differences. Researchers in the BTI laboratory of Professor Frank Schroeder and colleagues have used a simple roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, as an experimental model that could link genomic differences to differences in metabolism. The work was published in Nature on July 6. “Individuals have different metabolisms, and that’s important for how different diets, diseases, and medications affect us,” said Schroeder, one of the paper’s authors. “You need to find ways to tailor biomedical recommendations for different people based on their individual metabolism.” Understanding a person’s metabolism ...

China promotes 'right aesthetics' after online storm over Chinese model's eye shape

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阅读 中文版 After she finished high school, Wandi Cao’s mother had advice about her appearance. Key points: A recent controversy has swirled around some Chinese models because of the shape of their eyes Critics say the ads are caricatures or follow Western views Chinese government has urged TV companies to promote “right aesthetics” “My mother tried to persuade me to have double eyelid plastic surgery, so ‘my life would be so much easier’,” Cao told ABC China Tonight. Growing up in China, the 27-year-old model never thought she could “fit up with mainstream beauty standards”. “They thought my high cheekbones would curse my husband and my small eyes,” she said. “But I didn’t think it would change my personality and abilities, and I didn’t necessarily look prettier, so I didn’t.” Now living in Sydney, Cao moved to Melbourne in 2016 and started modeling. In Australia, she received a lot of praise for...