Letters from Andrew Ng

The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.

OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.

I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI. Starting from K-12, we should teach every student AI enabled coding, since this will enable them to become more productive and more empowered adults.

ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.

A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.

I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.

Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.

A pair of papers investigate how increasingly human-like chatbots affect users’ emotions.

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.

Researchers updated the highly responsive Moshi voice-to-voice model to discuss visual input.

Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.

The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.

Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.