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Practical writing on software architecture, SaaS products, AI automation, legacy modernisation, and the business of building reliable systems.
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OpenAI hackathon
Come to OpenAI’s office in San Francisco’s Mission District for talks and a hackathon on Saturday, March 3rd.
Wrap a REST API with GraphQL - A 3-step tutorial | Prisma
Learn how to wrap a REST API with GraphQL in three steps and expose a more flexible query interface for clients.
Preparing for malicious uses of AI
We’ve co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats. This paper is the outcome of almost a year of sustained work with our colleagues at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Center for a New American Security, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.
OpenAI supporters
We’re excited to welcome new donors to OpenAI.
Interpretable machine learning through teaching
We’ve designed a method that encourages AIs to teach each other with examples that also make sense to humans. Our approach automatically selects the most informative examples to teach a concept—for instance, the best images to describe the concept of dogs—and experimentally we found our approach to be effective at teaching both AIs
Discovering types for entity disambiguation
We’ve built a system for automatically figuring out which object is meant by a word by having a neural network decide if the word belongs to each of about 100 automatically-discovered “types” (non-exclusive categories).
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