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Stanford Researchers Develop HELM Benchmark for Language Models

Foundation models like GPT-3, BLOOM, and BERT have garnered much attention as of late, for good reason. These versatile models, often trained with a vast amount of unstructured data, have immense capabilities that can be Read more…

Machine Learning Illuminates Extreme Flooding in the Midwest

Floods just ravaged western Europe, fires are devastating the West Coast, and forecasters are projecting a busier-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season: extreme weather is on the rise, and it’s not going away any time Read more…

How Stanford’s COVID Analytics Helped It Navigate the Pandemic

Around this time last year, everyone and their brother was launching a dashboard for COVID analytics. Most of these were quite similar to one another: basic COVID data pulled from a handful of primary sources and parsed Read more…

Stanford COVID-19 Model Identifies Superspreader Sites, Socioeconomic Disparities

The COVID-19 pandemic is once again surging to unprecedented levels in the U.S., and all signs point to a grim winter punctuated by the return of many curfews and shutdowns. The conversation now focuses on how much of th Read more…

AI Startup Aims to Extinguish Wildfires

Based on the last two wildfire seasons, including 2018 when an entire California town was destroyed, utilities blamed for recent wildfires need all the help they can get maintaining aging grids. AI technologies may provi Read more…

Coders Enlisted to Fight Virus as Post-Pandemic Data Gathering Begins

Among the growing list of tech industry efforts designed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak is an IBM-sponsored coding challenge that extends beyond climate change projects to address the pandemic. Meanwhile, other r Read more…

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