Understanding the visual knowledge of language models

You’ve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a large language model (LLM) get the picture if it’s never seen images before? As it turns out, language models that are trained purely on text have a solid understanding of the visual world. They...

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Nine Complaints Against CUNY Alleging Discrimination Based on National Origin, Including Antisemitic, Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Muslim, and Anti-Arab Harassment

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced the resolution of all nine pending complaints against the City University of New York (CUNY), the CUNY Central Office (Central Office), and the following CUNY colleges and schools: Hunter...