ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency
Sep 27, 2023

ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency

The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below, improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m excited about the possibilities for large language models (LLMs) in romantic relationships…

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ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency
Sep 27, 2023

ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency

The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below, improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m excited about the possibilities for large language models (LLMs) in romantic relationships…

14 min read
Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers
Sep 20, 2023

Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers

The Batch - AI News & Insights: While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI...

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Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers
Sep 20, 2023

Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers

The Batch - AI News & Insights: While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI...

15 min read
ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure
Sep 13, 2023

ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I want to share a few observations from that presentation.

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ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure
Sep 13, 2023

ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I want to share a few observations from that presentation.

12 min read
High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate
Sep 06, 2023

High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization, AI for Good...

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High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate
Sep 06, 2023

High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization, AI for Good...

10 min read
Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders
Aug 30, 2023

Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’d like to share a part of the origin story of large language models that isn’t widely known. A lot of early work in natural language processing (NLP) was funded by U.S. military intelligence...

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Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders
Aug 30, 2023

Text to 3D Animation, China Restricts Face Recognition, Self-Driving Cars Get Crash Recorders

The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’d like to share a part of the origin story of large language models that isn’t widely known. A lot of early work in natural language processing (NLP) was funded by U.S. military intelligence...

11 min read
Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible
Aug 23, 2023

Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM).

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Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible
Aug 23, 2023

Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM).

12 min read
GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs
Aug 16, 2023

GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications.

15 min read
GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs
Aug 16, 2023

GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications.

15 min read
Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade
Aug 09, 2023

Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything.

12 min read
Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade
Aug 09, 2023

Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything.

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