AI Startups Face Compute Shortage, Detecting Generated Text, Italy Bans ChatGPT, AI Trends Report
Apr 12, 2023

AI Startups Face Compute Shortage, Detecting Generated Text, Italy Bans ChatGPT, AI Trends Report

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An ill-advised proposal for a 6-month pause in cutting-edge AI research got far more attention than I think it deserved. To me, this is a wake-up call that the AI doomers have done a much better job than the AI optimists at framing the narrative of progress in AI.

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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage, Detecting Generated Text, Italy Bans ChatGPT, AI Trends Report
Apr 12, 2023

AI Startups Face Compute Shortage, Detecting Generated Text, Italy Bans ChatGPT, AI Trends Report

The Batch - AI News & Insights: An ill-advised proposal for a 6-month pause in cutting-edge AI research got far more attention than I think it deserved. To me, this is a wake-up call that the AI doomers have done a much better job than the AI optimists at framing the narrative of progress in AI.

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Robot Metal Workers, Better Pay for Data Wranglers, Building a South African AI Hub, Collaborative Language Model
Apr 05, 2023

Robot Metal Workers, Better Pay for Data Wranglers, Building a South African AI Hub, Collaborative Language Model

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Google’s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAI’s terms of use.

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Robot Metal Workers, Better Pay for Data Wranglers, Building a South African AI Hub, Collaborative Language Model
Apr 05, 2023

Robot Metal Workers, Better Pay for Data Wranglers, Building a South African AI Hub, Collaborative Language Model

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Google’s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAI’s terms of use.

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Public Attitudes Toward AI, Wanted: Prompt Engineers, AI Chips Slip Through U.S. Trade Ban, Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Mar 29, 2023

Public Attitudes Toward AI, Wanted: Prompt Engineers, AI Chips Slip Through U.S. Trade Ban, Efficient Reinforcement Learning

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technology’s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology...

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Public Attitudes Toward AI, Wanted: Prompt Engineers, AI Chips Slip Through U.S. Trade Ban, Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Mar 29, 2023

Public Attitudes Toward AI, Wanted: Prompt Engineers, AI Chips Slip Through U.S. Trade Ban, Efficient Reinforcement Learning

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technology’s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology...

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How AI Kingpins Lost in Chatbots, Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad, AI Curates the News, Training Robots in the Real World
Mar 22, 2023

How AI Kingpins Lost in Chatbots, Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad, AI Curates the News, Training Robots in the Real World

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Dear friends, here’s a quiz for you. Which company said this? “It’s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind. . . .

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How AI Kingpins Lost in Chatbots, Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad, AI Curates the News, Training Robots in the Real World
Mar 22, 2023

How AI Kingpins Lost in Chatbots, Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad, AI Curates the News, Training Robots in the Real World

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Dear friends, here’s a quiz for you. Which company said this? “It’s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind. . . .

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GPT-4 Has Landed, AI Infers Talent, LLaMA Escapes into the Wild, Vision and Language Tightly Bound
Mar 15, 2023

GPT-4 Has Landed, AI Infers Talent, LLaMA Escapes into the Wild, Vision and Language Tightly Bound

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank suddenly collapsed. If it passed uneventfully from your point of view, good for you!

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GPT-4 Has Landed, AI Infers Talent, LLaMA Escapes into the Wild, Vision and Language Tightly Bound
Mar 15, 2023

GPT-4 Has Landed, AI Infers Talent, LLaMA Escapes into the Wild, Vision and Language Tightly Bound

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank suddenly collapsed. If it passed uneventfully from your point of view, good for you!

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Voice Clones Go Viral, No Copyright for Generated Images, Text-Driven Video Style Transfer, Romania's AI Adviser
Mar 08, 2023

Voice Clones Go Viral, No Copyright for Generated Images, Text-Driven Video Style Transfer, Romania's AI Adviser

The Batch - AI News & Insights: ChatGPT has raised fears that students will harm their learning by using it to complete assignments. Voice cloning, another generative AI technology, has fooled people into giving large sums of money to scammers, as you can read below in this issue of The Batch.

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Voice Clones Go Viral, No Copyright for Generated Images, Text-Driven Video Style Transfer, Romania's AI Adviser
Mar 08, 2023

Voice Clones Go Viral, No Copyright for Generated Images, Text-Driven Video Style Transfer, Romania's AI Adviser

The Batch - AI News & Insights: ChatGPT has raised fears that students will harm their learning by using it to complete assignments. Voice cloning, another generative AI technology, has fooled people into giving large sums of money to scammers, as you can read below in this issue of The Batch.

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China Catches ChatGPT Fever, Top Publishers Embrace Text Generation, Replika’s Hot Bot Turns Cold, PCA Raises Red Flags
Mar 01, 2023

China Catches ChatGPT Fever, Top Publishers Embrace Text Generation, Replika’s Hot Bot Turns Cold, PCA Raises Red Flags

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Landing AI, a sister company of DeepLearning.AI, just released its computer vision platform, LandingLens, for everyone to start using for free. You can try it...

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China Catches ChatGPT Fever, Top Publishers Embrace Text Generation, Replika’s Hot Bot Turns Cold, PCA Raises Red Flags
Mar 01, 2023

China Catches ChatGPT Fever, Top Publishers Embrace Text Generation, Replika’s Hot Bot Turns Cold, PCA Raises Red Flags

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Landing AI, a sister company of DeepLearning.AI, just released its computer vision platform, LandingLens, for everyone to start using for free. You can try it...

11 min read
Chatbots Gone Wild, Surveillance Takes Hold, Rules for Military AI, Robot Training Streamlined
Feb 22, 2023

Chatbots Gone Wild, Surveillance Takes Hold, Rules for Military AI, Robot Training Streamlined

The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below in this issue of The Batch, Microsoft’s effort to reinvent web search by adding a large language model snagged when its chatbot went off the rails.

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Chatbots Gone Wild, Surveillance Takes Hold, Rules for Military AI, Robot Training Streamlined
Feb 22, 2023

Chatbots Gone Wild, Surveillance Takes Hold, Rules for Military AI, Robot Training Streamlined

The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below in this issue of The Batch, Microsoft’s effort to reinvent web search by adding a large language model snagged when its chatbot went off the rails.

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