The UN's Libya report never confirms an autonomous weapon killed anyone
A radar-seeking weapon Israel was exporting to China by the mid-1990s meets the 2015 open letter's definition of one.
'Human parity' in speech recognition came down to how you count the humans
Word Error Rate counts the word edits between a transcript and a reference, and when IBM re-transcribed the same phone calls the human benchmark on the hard set dropped from 11.3 percent to 6.8.
A model can spell strawberry and still miscount its letters
Its tokenizer splits the word into str, aw, berry before it reads anything, and how much of the spelling survives that split is still partly unsettled.
The token a model can't repeat back
SolidGoldMagikarp reached the model's vocabulary from a Reddit counting forum and never reached its training.
Google packed a whole sentence into a single vector
The 2014 LSTM that gave machine translation its encoder-decoder shape leaned on a source-reversing hack that attention made unnecessary within months.
CNET let an AI draft its finance advice under a staff byline
The in-house engine produced 77 stories, one of which told readers a $10,000 deposit at 3 percent would earn $10,300 in a year.