Sep 11, 2024

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Comic where a robot is hiding in a closet during a game of hide-and-seek.

Sep 11, 2024

Why Science-Fiction Scenarios of AI’s Emergent Behavior Are Likely to Remain Fictional: The sudden apparance of “emergent” AI capabilities may be an artifact of the metrics you study

Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.

Sep 11, 2024

Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.

Collection of various toys, including a raccoon, a bus, and a tree.

Sep 11, 2024

2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds

Traditionally, building 3D meshes for gaming, animation, product design, architecture, and the like has been labor-intensive. Now the ability to generate 3D meshes from a single image is widely available.

Hierarchical K-means diagram with data clustering across multiple layers.

Sep 11, 2024

Balancing Web Data Distributions: Automated method organizes large datasets for better model performance

Datasets that were scraped from the web tend to be unbalanced, meaning examples of some classes (say, cats) are plentiful while examples of others (say, caterpillars) are scarce.

Sep 11, 2024

Western Powers Sign AI Treaty: International AI treaty sets standards to support innovation and human rights

The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and other countries signed a legally binding treaty that regulates artificial intelligence.

Chart comparing Waymo and human incidents across three safety categories.

Sep 11, 2024

Waymo Spotlights Safety Record: Waymo claims its robotaxis are safer than human drivers, citing new safety data

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, released an analysis of its own safety data. It suggests that the company’s self-driving cars are safer than human drivers on the same roads.

Sep 11, 2024

Why Science-Fiction Scenarios of AI’s Emergent Behavior Are Likely to Remain Fictional: The sudden apparance of “emergent” AI capabilities may be an artifact of the metrics you study

Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds

Balancing Web Data Distributions: Automated method organizes large datasets for better model performance

Western Powers Sign AI Treaty: International AI treaty sets standards to support innovation and human rights

Waymo Spotlights Safety Record: Waymo claims its robotaxis are safer than human drivers, citing new safety data

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