Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development
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Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AIā€™s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting, Iā€™m...
Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.
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Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.

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. Sometimes, I've spent all day on a weekend developing ideas only to find that I've spent less than $0.50.
New course ā€” ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more
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New course ā€” ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more

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 OpenAIā€™s Isa Fulford and me.
"Visual Promptingā€ Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision
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"Visual Promptingā€ Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision

My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. Itā€™s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.
Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.
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Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.

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, focusing on direct-to-consumer...
Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.
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Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.

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
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When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Googleā€™s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.

Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Googleā€™s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAIā€™s terms of use.
Emad Mostaque, Alexandr Wang, Andrew Ng, and Peter Diamandis at Abundance 360, March 20, 2023
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Catching AI's Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.

Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technologyā€™s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology (GPT, not to be confused with the other GPT: generative pretrained transformer).
IBM Watson wins the television game show Jeopardy!, February 16, 2011
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AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence

Hereā€™s a quiz for you. Which company said this? ā€œItā€™s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind...
Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.
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Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.

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! Many companies worked nonstop through the weekend scrambling to preserve funds so they could pay their employees.
First mill-brand watermarked paper with the text "Old Council Tree Bond 100% Cotton Fiber"
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Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.

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 in this issue of The Batch.
Landing AI's computer vision platform, LandingLens
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Computer Vision Made Easy!: LandingLens enables anyone to build in minutes models that used to take months.

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 now.
Chatbot emoji with a happy and an angry face
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Bad Bot, Good Bot: What Bing's unruly chatbot means for the future of search.

As you can read in this issue of The Batch, Microsoftā€™s effort to reinvent web search by adding a large language model snagged when its chatbot went off the rails. Both Bing chat and Googleā€™s Bard...
Cellphone displaying an Instagram post with a picture of a robot doing yoga by the sunset
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AIā€˜s Instagram Problem: Someone elseā€™s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.

AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagramā€™s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they donā€™t measure up, AIā€™s parade of exciting projects makes many people feel their own projects are lacking.
Artist copying the painting called The Dance Lesson by Edward Degas at the National Gallery Museum
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Training Generative AI: Whatā€™s Legal Versus Whatā€™s Fair: Should AI be allowed to learn from data that's freely available to humans?

As you can read in this issue of The Batch, generative AI companies are being sued over their use of data (specifically images and code) scraped from the web to train their models.

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