Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.
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Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.

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.

April 12, 20232 min read
Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.
Letters

Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.

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.

April 12, 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
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
AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence
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AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence

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...

March 22, 20232 min read
AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence
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AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence

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...

March 22, 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
Computer Vision Made Easy!: LandingLens enables anyone to build in minutes models that used to take months.
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Computer Vision Made Easy!: LandingLens enables anyone to build in minutes models that used to take months.

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 now.

March 2, 20232 min read
Computer Vision Made Easy!: LandingLens enables anyone to build in minutes models that used to take months.
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Computer Vision Made Easy!: LandingLens enables anyone to build in minutes models that used to take months.

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 now.

March 2, 20232 min read
Bad Bot, Good Bot: What Bing's unruly chatbot means for the future of search.
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Bad Bot, Good Bot: What Bing's unruly chatbot means for the future of search.

As you can read 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. Both Bing chat and Google’s Bard...

February 22, 20232 min read

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