ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.
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ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.

The Batch - AI News & Insights. The breakout text generator faces resistance — even within the AI community. Organizations including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the New York Department of Education banned OpenAI's ChatGPT...

January 11, 20232 min read
ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.
Tech & Society

ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.

The Batch - AI News & Insights. The breakout text generator faces resistance — even within the AI community. Organizations including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the New York Department of Education banned OpenAI's ChatGPT...

January 11, 20232 min read
Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.
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Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.

Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.

January 4, 20232 min read
Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.
Tech & Society

Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.

Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.

January 4, 20232 min read
Will We Have Enough Data?
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Will We Have Enough Data?

The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.

January 4, 20233 min read
Will We Have Enough Data?
Tech & Society

Will We Have Enough Data?

The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.

January 4, 20233 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
Tech & Society

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
Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
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Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.

Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.

December 21, 20222 min read
Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
Tech & Society

Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.

Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.

December 21, 20222 min read
AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.
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AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.

Work on vision transformers exploded in 2022. Researchers published well over 17,000 ViT papers during the year. A major theme: combining self-attention and convolution.

December 21, 20222 min read
AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.
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AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.

Work on vision transformers exploded in 2022. Researchers published well over 17,000 ViT papers during the year. A major theme: combining self-attention and convolution.

December 21, 20222 min read
Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
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Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.

Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.

December 21, 20222 min read
Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
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Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.

Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.

December 21, 20222 min read
Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
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Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?

A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.

December 14, 20222 min read

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