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Text message exchange: "Idk how to tell my partner I want to breakup. Can you help?"
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ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency

As you can read below, improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m excited about the possibilities for large language models (LLMs) in romantic relationships…
Graphic model of Stable Audio's diffusion and generation process
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Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers

While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI, I’ve found the following recipe useful as a brainstorming aid:
ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure
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ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I want to share a few observations from that presentation.
High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate
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High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization, AI for Good...
Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders
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Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’d like to share a part of the origin story of large language models that isn’t widely known. A lot of early work in natural language processing (NLP) was funded by U.S. military intelligence...
Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible
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Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM).
GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs
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GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications.
Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade
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Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything.
Drones of War, Generative AI in the Cloud, K-Pop in Many Tongues, Better Weather Forecasts
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Drones of War, Generative AI in the Cloud, K-Pop in Many Tongues, Better Weather Forecasts

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I returned home from Asia, where I spoke at Seoul National University in Korea, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Tokyo in Japan and visited many businesses.
ChatGPT Performance Drifts, Apple Grapples With Generative AI, Big AI Accepts Voluntary Limits
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ChatGPT Performance Drifts, Apple Grapples With Generative AI, Big AI Accepts Voluntary Limits

The Batch - AI News & Insights: The White House announced voluntary commitments by seven AI companies, as you can read below. Most of the points were sufficiently vague that it seems easy for the White House and the companies to declare success without doing much that they don’t already do.
Generative AI On Trial, Chatbot Shoot-Out, Top AI Startups, No Hyperparameters External Inbox
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Generative AI On Trial, Chatbot Shoot-Out, Top AI Startups, No Hyperparameters External Inbox

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Many laws will need to be updated to encourage beneficial AI innovations while mitigating potential harms. One example: Copyright law as it relates to generative AI is a mess!
Stable Biases, Jobs at Risk, Efficient Robot Training, Banks Embrace AI
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Stable Biases, Jobs at Risk, Efficient Robot Training, Banks Embrace AI

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Internalizing this mental framework has made me a more efficient machine learning engineer: Most of the work of building a machine learning system is debugging rather than development.
The Secret Life of Data Labelers, Letting Chatbots See Your Data, Making Government Multilingual
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The Secret Life of Data Labelers, Letting Chatbots See Your Data, Making Government Multilingual

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Prompt-based development is making the machine learning development cycle much faster: Projects that used to take months now may take days.
Meta’s Generative Strategy, Robots Invade Mechanical Turk, U.S. Gears Up to Regulate, Better Fine-Tuning
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Meta’s Generative Strategy, Robots Invade Mechanical Turk, U.S. Gears Up to Regulate, Better Fine-Tuning

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Suddenly it seems like everyone wants to regulate AI. The European Union is on the verge of enacting a comprehensive AI Act that’s intended to mitigate risks and protect individual rights.
Generative Economic Engine, Tesla Semiautonomous Crashes, LLMs in the Courtroom, Seeing What the Brain Sees
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Generative Economic Engine, Tesla Semiautonomous Crashes, LLMs in the Courtroom, Seeing What the Brain Sees

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I spent Sunday through Tuesday at the CVPR computer vision conference in Vancouver, Canada, along with over 4,000 other attendees. With the easing of the pandemic, it’s fantastic that large conferences are being held in person again!
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