Apr 05, 2023

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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.

11 min read
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.

11 min read
When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Google’s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.
Apr 05, 2023

When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Google’s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.

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.

2 min read
When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Google’s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.
Apr 05, 2023

When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Google’s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.

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.

2 min read
AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication
Apr 05, 2023

AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication

Neural networks are predicting how metal will deform under pressure to pilot robots through the tricky process of fabricating aircraft. Machina Labs crafts metal using AI-guided robotic arms.

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AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication
Apr 05, 2023

AI Shows Its Metal: How Machina Labs uses AI to automate metal fabrication

Neural networks are predicting how metal will deform under pressure to pilot robots through the tricky process of fabricating aircraft. Machina Labs crafts metal using AI-guided robotic arms.

1 min read
Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Apr 05, 2023

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

3 min read
Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Apr 05, 2023

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

3 min read
Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.
Apr 05, 2023

Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.

A South African startup aims to lure talented engineers who left the continent to work abroad. Johannesburg research lab Lelapa.ai bills itself as a haven for African AI engineers who want to work on challenges that aren’t on Silicon Valley’s agenda.

1 min read
Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.
Apr 05, 2023

Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.

A South African startup aims to lure talented engineers who left the continent to work abroad. Johannesburg research lab Lelapa.ai bills itself as a haven for African AI engineers who want to work on challenges that aren’t on Silicon Valley’s agenda.

1 min read
Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.
Apr 05, 2023

Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.

2 min read
Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.
Apr 05, 2023

Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.

2 min read

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