Mar 22, 2023

Roboticists often train their machines in simulation, where the controller model can learn from millions of hours of experience. A new method trained robots in the real world in 20 minutes.

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

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...

What does an entrepreneur do after co-founding one of the world’s top social networks? Apply the lessons learned to distributing hard news. Kevin Systerom and Mike Krieger, who co-founded Instagram, launched Artifact, an app that uses reinforcement learning to recommend news articles...

Microsoft laid off an AI ethics team while charging ahead on products powered by OpenAI. On March 6, the tech giant dissolved the Ethics & Society unit in its Cognition group, which researches and builds AI services, amid ongoing cutbacks that have affected 10,000 workers to date...

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. . . .