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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
AI‘s Instagram Problem: Someone else’s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.
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AI‘s Instagram Problem: Someone else’s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.

AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagram’s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they don’t measure up, AI’s parade of exciting projects makes many people feel their own projects are lacking.

February 15, 20232 min read
AI‘s Instagram Problem: Someone else’s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.
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AI‘s Instagram Problem: Someone else’s cool AI project doesn't make your project less valuable.

AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagram’s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they don’t measure up, AI’s parade of exciting projects makes many people feel their own projects are lacking.

February 15, 20232 min read
Training Generative AI: What’s Legal Versus What’s Fair: Should AI be allowed to learn from data that's freely available to humans?
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Training Generative AI: What’s Legal Versus What’s Fair: Should AI be allowed to learn from data that's freely available to humans?

As you can read in this issue of The Batch, generative AI companies are being sued over their use of data (specifically images and code) scraped from the web to train their models.

February 8, 20233 min read
Training Generative AI: What’s Legal Versus What’s Fair: Should AI be allowed to learn from data that's freely available to humans?
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Training Generative AI: What’s Legal Versus What’s Fair: Should AI be allowed to learn from data that's freely available to humans?

As you can read in this issue of The Batch, generative AI companies are being sued over their use of data (specifically images and code) scraped from the web to train their models.

February 8, 20233 min read
The Unexpected Power of Large Language Models: Training on massive amounts of text partly offsets lack of exposure to other data types.
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The Unexpected Power of Large Language Models: Training on massive amounts of text partly offsets lack of exposure to other data types.

Recent successes with large language models have brought to the surface a long-running debate within the AI community: What kinds of information do learning algorithms need in order to gain intelligence?

February 1, 20232 min read
The Unexpected Power of Large Language Models: Training on massive amounts of text partly offsets lack of exposure to other data types.
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The Unexpected Power of Large Language Models: Training on massive amounts of text partly offsets lack of exposure to other data types.

Recent successes with large language models have brought to the surface a long-running debate within the AI community: What kinds of information do learning algorithms need in order to gain intelligence?

February 1, 20232 min read
Don't Worry About Math. Master It!: Unlock the power of machine learning by learning the mathematics that make them work.
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Don't Worry About Math. Master It!: Unlock the power of machine learning by learning the mathematics that make them work.

Understanding the math behind machine learning algorithms improves your ability to debug algorithms when they aren’t working, tune them so they work better, and perhaps even invent new ones. Today DeepLearning.AI is launching the Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization.

January 26, 20232 min read
Don't Worry About Math. Master It!: Unlock the power of machine learning by learning the mathematics that make them work.
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Don't Worry About Math. Master It!: Unlock the power of machine learning by learning the mathematics that make them work.

Understanding the math behind machine learning algorithms improves your ability to debug algorithms when they aren’t working, tune them so they work better, and perhaps even invent new ones. Today DeepLearning.AI is launching the Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization.

January 26, 20232 min read
Do Large Language Models Threaten Google?: ChatGPT and other large language models could disrupt Google's business, but hurdles stand in the way.
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Do Large Language Models Threaten Google?: ChatGPT and other large language models could disrupt Google's business, but hurdles stand in the way.

In late December, Google reportedly issued a “code red” to raise the alarm internally to the threat of disruption of its business by large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Do large language models (LLMs) endanger Google's search engine business?

January 19, 20232 min read
Do Large Language Models Threaten Google?: ChatGPT and other large language models could disrupt Google's business, but hurdles stand in the way.
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Do Large Language Models Threaten Google?: ChatGPT and other large language models could disrupt Google's business, but hurdles stand in the way.

In late December, Google reportedly issued a “code red” to raise the alarm internally to the threat of disruption of its business by large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Do large language models (LLMs) endanger Google's search engine business?

January 19, 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
What the AI Community Wants in 2023
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What the AI Community Wants in 2023

In last week’s issue of The Batch, Yoshua Bengio, Alon Halevy, Douwe Kiela, Been Kim, and Reza Zadeh shared their hopes for AI in 2023. I also asked people on LinkedIn and Twitter about their hopes for AI this year. Rather than...

January 4, 20232 min read
What the AI Community Wants in 2023
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What the AI Community Wants in 2023

In last week’s issue of The Batch, Yoshua Bengio, Alon Halevy, Douwe Kiela, Been Kim, and Reza Zadeh shared their hopes for AI in 2023. I also asked people on LinkedIn and Twitter about their hopes for AI this year. Rather than...

January 4, 20232 min read

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