AI Invades Consumer Products, OpenAI’s Platform Play, Watermarks for Synthetic Media, Generated Musical Accompaniments
Jan 17, 2024

AI Invades Consumer Products, OpenAI’s Platform Play, Watermarks for Synthetic Media, Generated Musical Accompaniments

The Batch AI News and Insights: As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms.

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AI Invades Consumer Products, OpenAI’s Platform Play, Watermarks for Synthetic Media, Generated Musical Accompaniments
Jan 17, 2024

AI Invades Consumer Products, OpenAI’s Platform Play, Watermarks for Synthetic Media, Generated Musical Accompaniments

The Batch AI News and Insights: As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

16 min read
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.

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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.

13 min read
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.”

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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.”

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

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

14 min read
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)...

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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)...

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