Apr 10, 2024

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Chart showing how people are using generative AI according to a recent survey
Apr 10, 2024

What Users Do With Generative AI: Studies from Filtered and Pew uncover trends in generative AI usage

Generative AI is being used mostly to generate ideas. The tech consultancy Filtered studied the most common uses for generative AI. While most gen AI users produced text, the study surprisingly found that users were slightly more likely to generate videos than images.
Planning: Agentic AI design pattern illustrated by an example
Apr 10, 2024

Autonomous Coding Agents, Instability at Stability AI, Mamba Mania, What Users Do With GenAI

The Batch AI News and Insights: Planning is a key agentic AI design pattern in which we use a large language model (LLM) to autonomously decide on what sequence of steps to execute to accomplish a larger task.
The latest in AI from Apr. 4 to Apr. 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024

The latest in AI from Apr. 4 to Apr. 10, 2024

This week's top AI news and research stories featured the proliferation of coding agents, a study showing the most common uses for generative AI, the instability of Stability AI, and a transformer alternative called Mamba. But first:
Agentic Design Patterns Part 4, Planning: Large language models can drive powerful agents to execute complex tasks if you ask them to plan the steps before they act.
Apr 10, 2024

Agentic Design Patterns Part 4, Planning: Large language models can drive powerful agents to execute complex tasks if you ask them to plan the steps before they act.

Planning is a key agentic AI design pattern in which we use a large language model (LLM) to autonomously decide on what sequence of steps to execute to accomplish a larger task.
A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers
Apr 10, 2024

A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers

An architectural innovation improves upon transformers — up to 2 billion parameters, at least...
Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges
Apr 10, 2024

Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges

The CEO of Stability AI resigned as the company faces an increasingly competitive market.
Coding Agents Proliferate: Next-generation coding tools empower developers with agent-style interactions.
Apr 10, 2024

Coding Agents Proliferate: Next-generation coding tools empower developers with agent-style interactions.

New coding tools act like agents to automate software programming tasks. 

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