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.

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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.

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

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

15 min read
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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

14 min read
AI for Brain Surgery, Microsoft's ChatGPT Bill, Google's Generative Phones, Better Prompts
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.

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

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

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

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

11 min read

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