AI Discovers New Antibiotics, OpenAI Revamps Safety, Researchers Define AGI, LLMs Go Multimodal
Jan 10, 2024

AI Discovers New Antibiotics, OpenAI Revamps Safety, Researchers Define AGI, LLMs Go Multimodal

The Batch AI News and Insights: It is only rarely that, after reading a research paper, I feel like giving the authors a standing ovation. But I felt that way after finishing Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by...
GPT-4 Tells Lies, Microscopes Recognize Cancer, AI Fights Climate Change, Paris Spawns AI Startups
Jan 03, 2024

GPT-4 Tells Lies, Microscopes Recognize Cancer, AI Fights Climate Change, Paris Spawns AI Startups

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging massive copyright infringements. The suit...
Hopes for 2024 from Anastasis Germanidis, Sara Hooker, Percy Liang, Sasha Luccioni, Pelonomi Moiloa, Kevin Scott
Dec 27, 2023

Hopes for 2024 from Anastasis Germanidis, Sara Hooker, Percy Liang, Sasha Luccioni, Pelonomi Moiloa, Kevin Scott

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI is progressing faster than ever. This is thrilling, yet rapid change can be disorienting. In such times, it’s useful to follow Jeff Bezos’ advice to think about not only what is changing but also what will stay the same.
Top Stories of 2023: Generative Everything, Doomsday Visions, Hollywood Versus AI, AI's Hit Record, Copyright Owners Revolt
Dec 20, 2023

Top Stories of 2023: Generative Everything, Doomsday Visions, Hollywood Versus AI, AI's Hit Record, Copyright Owners Revolt

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research.
Google’s Answer to GPT-4, Europe's Restrictions on AI, Open Source’s New Champion, Meta’s Vision Architecture
Dec 13, 2023

Google’s Answer to GPT-4, Europe's Restrictions on AI, Open Source’s New Champion, Meta’s Vision Architecture

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I participated in the United States Senate’s Insight Forum on Artificial Intelligence to discuss “Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios.”
Visualization of features of a pathology image using a generic LVM (left) versus a domain-specific LVM (right)
Dec 06, 2023

Amazon's New Chatbot, Pedestrian Detection, Limits on AI in Insurance, a Robot That Can Find Your Keys

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Large language models, or LLMs, have transformed how we process text. Large vision models, or LVMs, are starting to change how we process images as well.
Docs Wary of Medical AI, LLMs for Robots, Siemens' Industrial-Strength Language Model, Testing LLMs
Nov 29, 2023

Docs Wary of Medical AI, LLMs for Robots, Siemens' Industrial-Strength Language Model, Testing LLMs

The Batch - AI News & Insights: One year since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, it’s amazing how many large language models are available.  A year ago, ChatGPT was pretty much the only game in town for consumers (using a web user interface)...
Wild Times at OpenAI, Do Generative AI and Politics Mix?, More GPUs On the Way, Taming Transformers
Nov 22, 2023

Wild Times at OpenAI, Do Generative AI and Politics Mix?, More GPUs On the Way, Taming Transformers

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’m delighted that the crisis at OpenAI, which you can read about below, seems to have been resolved with an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO after his sudden firing last week.
Guest panel, including Andrew Ng, at the AI Governance Summit 2023 by the World Economic Forum
Nov 15, 2023

Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI, Actors Reach Accord on AI, Anthropic Goes Steady with Google and Amazon

The Batch - AI News & Insights: This week, I’m speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in San Francisco, where leaders in business and government have convened to discuss AI and other topics.
OpenAI Empowers Developers, AI Risk in the Spotlight, Decoding Schizophrenic Language, Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification
Nov 08, 2023

OpenAI Empowers Developers, AI Risk in the Spotlight, Decoding Schizophrenic Language, Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification

The Batch - AI News & Insights: The past week has been an unusual split-screen time in AI. On one side, I see rapidly developing innovations from OpenAI, as well as Elon Musk's Grok and Kai-Fu Lee's open source Yi-34B large language model.
"Generative AI for Everyone" course promotional banner
Nov 01, 2023

Problematic White House AI Policy, Parked Cruise Robotaxis, Transparency For Foundation Models, Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’ve always believed in democratizing access to the latest advances in artificial intelligence. As a step in this direction, we just launched “Generative AI for Everyone” on Coursera.
Feel the Fear! AI Turns Deadly, Data Disappears, Criminals Clone Voices, Hype Overshoots Reality
Oct 25, 2023

Feel the Fear! AI Turns Deadly, Data Disappears, Criminals Clone Voices, Hype Overshoots Reality

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Welcome to the Halloween special issue of The Batch, where we take a look at fears associated with AI. In that spirit, I’d like to address a fear of mine: Sensationalist claims that AI could bring about human extinction will cause serious harm.
Left: Datacenter Right: Human hands holding and manipulating a mobile phone
Oct 18, 2023

AI for Brain Surgery, Microsoft's ChatGPT Bill, Google's Generative Phones, Better Prompts

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I wrote earlier about how my team at AI Fund saw that GPT-3 set a new direction for building language applications, two years before ChatGPT was released.
Illustration of a firey cloud over a city
Oct 11, 2023

GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes, Meta’s Generative Facelift, Newsrooms Respond to AI, Beware Training on Generated Data

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Over the weekend, Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel, slaughtering and kidnapping civilians.
Illustration of two people greeting each other in two languages: English and Python
Oct 04, 2023

AI's New Power Couple, Movie Industry Limits AI, YouTube Goes Generative, More Web Data = More Bias

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment...

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