Beyond the current news cycle about whether AIs are sentient is a more practical and immediately consequential conversation about AI value alignment: whether and how AIs can be imbued with human values. …

Ubi Sunt is an unconventional novella I wrote in early 2021. I’m a VP and Fellow at Google Research leading a team working on AI. …

Disclaimer These are my own views, not necessarily those of my employer. Summary Large language models (LLMs) represent a major advance in artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular toward the goal of human-like artificial general intelligence (AGI). It’s sometimes claimed, though, that machine learning is “just statistics”, hence that progress in AI…

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Alexander Todorov and Margaret Mitchell A study claiming that artificial intelligence can infer sexual orientation from facial images caused a media uproar in the Fall of 2017. The Economist featured this work on the cover of their September 9th magazine; on the other hand two…

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell and Alexander Todorov Introduction In 1844, a laborer from a small town in southern Italy was put on trial for stealing “five ricottas, a hard cheese, two loaves of bread […] and two kid goats”. The laborer, Giuseppe Villella, was reportedly convicted of being…

What do art and technology have to do with each other? What is machine intelligence, and what does “machine intelligence art” look, sound and feel like? What are the emerging relationships between humans and machines; what does it mean to be human; and what can we learn about intelligence, human…

Art has always existed in a complex, symbiotic and continually evolving relationship with the technological capabilities of a culture. Those capabilities constrain the art that is produced, and inform the way art is perceived and understood by its audience. Like the invention of applied pigments, the printing press, photography, and…