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.
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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.

April 5, 20232 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.
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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.

April 5, 20232 min read
Catching AI's Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.
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Catching AI's Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.

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 (GPT, not to be confused with the other GPT: generative pretrained transformer).

March 29, 20232 min read
Catching AI’s Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.
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Catching AI’s Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.

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 (GPT, not to be confused with the other GPT: generative pretrained transformer).

March 29, 20232 min read
Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.
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Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.

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! Many companies worked nonstop through the weekend scrambling to preserve funds so they could pay their employees.

March 15, 20232 min read
Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.
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Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.

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! Many companies worked nonstop through the weekend scrambling to preserve funds so they could pay their employees.

March 15, 20232 min read
Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.
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Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.

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 in this issue of The Batch.

March 8, 20232 min read
Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.
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Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.

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 in this issue of The Batch.

March 8, 20232 min read
Who Will Control Cutting-Edge Language Models?: Why the future is likely to bring more large language models like ChatGPT
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Who Will Control Cutting-Edge Language Models?: Why the future is likely to bring more large language models like ChatGPT

Will the future of large language models limit users to cutting-edge models from a handful of companies, or will users be able to choose among powerful models from a large number of developers?

January 11, 20232 min read
Who Will Control Cutting-Edge Language Models?: Why the future is likely to bring more large language models like ChatGPT
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Who Will Control Cutting-Edge Language Models?: Why the future is likely to bring more large language models like ChatGPT

Will the future of large language models limit users to cutting-edge models from a handful of companies, or will users be able to choose among powerful models from a large number of developers?

January 11, 20232 min read
Generative models are AI's next pillar of value creation: Models like DALL·E and Stable Diffusion are creating a new paradigm for AI applications.
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Generative models are AI's next pillar of value creation: Models like DALL·E and Stable Diffusion are creating a new paradigm for AI applications.

As the winter holiday approaches, it occurs to me that, instead of facing AI winter, we are in a boiling-hot summer of AI.

December 22, 20221 min read
Generative models are AI's next pillar of value creation: Models like DALL·E and Stable Diffusion are creating a new paradigm for AI applications.
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Generative models are AI's next pillar of value creation: Models like DALL·E and Stable Diffusion are creating a new paradigm for AI applications.

As the winter holiday approaches, it occurs to me that, instead of facing AI winter, we are in a boiling-hot summer of AI.

December 22, 20221 min read
What to Do in a Tough Economy: How to Survive and Thrive Amid Economic Uncertainty
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What to Do in a Tough Economy: How to Survive and Thrive Amid Economic Uncertainty

The economic downturn of the past six months has hit many individuals and companies hard, and I’ve written about the impact of rising interest rates on AI. The effects of high inflation, the Russian war in Ukraine, and an economic slowdown in China are rippling across the globe...

November 9, 20222 min read
What to Do in a Tough Economy: How to Survive and Thrive Amid Economic Uncertainty
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What to Do in a Tough Economy: How to Survive and Thrive Amid Economic Uncertainty

The economic downturn of the past six months has hit many individuals and companies hard, and I’ve written about the impact of rising interest rates on AI. The effects of high inflation, the Russian war in Ukraine, and an economic slowdown in China are rippling across the globe...

November 9, 20222 min read
The Fate of GPU Prices and What It Means for AI
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The Fate of GPU Prices and What It Means for AI

The rise of AI over the last decade has been powered by the increasing speed and decreasing cost of GPUs and other accelerator chips. How long will this continue? The past month saw several events that might affect how GPU prices evolve.

October 12, 20222 min read

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