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Jun 07, 2023

Bengio, Too, is Anxious About AI; LAION Tests Copyright Law; Abu Dhabi Develops Top Model; Optimizing Matrix Multiplication

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, safe.org asserted that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

PCA Raises Red Flags: Principal component analysis can negatively impact science.

Cellphone displaying an Instagram post with a picture of a robot doing yoga by the sunset

AI‘s Instagram Problem: Someone else’s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.

Illustration of two red and blue toy robots fighting with a yellow background

Generated Code Makes Overconfident Programmers, China's Autonomous Drone Carrier, Does Bot Therapy Require Informed Consent?, Mining for Green Tech

May 31, 2023

New Push to Regulate AI, Weapons Detector Misses Knives, Grimes Embraces Voice Cloning, Text-to-Image Editing Evolves

The Batch - AI News & Insights: In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today.

May 24, 2023

EU's Algorithm Investigators, Crystal Ball for Interest Rates, Image Gen for Architects, Big Results From TinyML

The Batch - AI News & Insights: t’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set...

May 17, 2023

Google Goes All-In on AI, Do You Share GPT-3's Politics?, Generative AI Productivity Boost, Text to 3D Without 3D Data

The Batch - AI News & Insights: A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AI’s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting...

May 10, 2023

Battlefield Chat, Protecting Artists' Styles, OpenAI Retools for Business, Language Models for Science Search

The Batch - AI News & Insights: There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think.

May 03, 2023

AI Scares Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, Radio Tests AI DJs, Generated Political Attack Ad

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.

Apr 26, 2023

Data Providers Hike Prices, Google AI Plans Leak, Music Stars Get Cloned, Image Generators Copy Training Data

The Batch - AI News & Insights: My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.

Apr 19, 2023

Record Industry Fights Generated Music, AWS Launches GenAI Platform, France Embraces Surveillance, Prompt Generation

The Batch - AI News & Insights: The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations...

Apr 12, 2023

AI Startups Face Compute Shortage, Detecting Generated Text, Italy Bans ChatGPT, AI Trends Report

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An ill-advised proposal for a 6-month pause in cutting-edge AI research got far more attention than I think it deserved. To me, this is a wake-up call that the AI doomers have done a much better job than the AI optimists at framing the narrative of progress in AI.

Figure showing how researchers obtained the Alpaca model

Apr 05, 2023

Robot Metal Workers, Better Pay for Data Wranglers, Building a South African AI Hub, Collaborative Language Model

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Google’s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAI’s terms of use.

Emad Mostaque, Alexandr Wang, Andrew Ng, and Peter Diamandis at Abundance 360, March 20, 2023

Mar 29, 2023

Public Attitudes Toward AI, Wanted: Prompt Engineers, AI Chips Slip Through U.S. Trade Ban, Efficient Reinforcement Learning

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technology’s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology...

IBM Watson wins the television game show Jeopardy!, February 16, 2011

Mar 22, 2023

How AI Kingpins Lost in Chatbots, Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad, AI Curates the News, Training Robots in the Real World

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Dear friends, here’s a quiz for you. Which company said this? “It’s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind. . . .

Mar 15, 2023

GPT-4 Has Landed, AI Infers Talent, LLaMA Escapes into the Wild, Vision and Language Tightly Bound

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank suddenly collapsed. If it passed uneventfully from your point of view, good for you!

Mar 08, 2023

Voice Clones Go Viral, No Copyright for Generated Images, Text-Driven Video Style Transfer, Romania's AI Adviser

The Batch - AI News & Insights: ChatGPT has raised fears that students will harm their learning by using it to complete assignments. Voice cloning, another generative AI technology, has fooled people into giving large sums of money to scammers, as you can read below in this issue of The Batch.

Landing AI's computer vision platform, LandingLens

Mar 01, 2023

China Catches ChatGPT Fever, Top Publishers Embrace Text Generation, Replika’s Hot Bot Turns Cold, PCA Raises Red Flags

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Landing AI, a sister company of DeepLearning.AI, just released its computer vision platform, LandingLens, for everyone to start using for free. You can try it...

Chatbot emoji with a happy and an angry face

Feb 22, 2023

Chatbots Gone Wild, Surveillance Takes Hold, Rules for Military AI, Robot Training Streamlined

The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below in this issue of The Batch, Microsoft’s effort to reinvent web search by adding a large language model snagged when its chatbot went off the rails.