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
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
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
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
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
How to Achieve Your Long-Term Goals: Make your projects add up to achievement by charting a path and gathering advice from mentors.
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How to Achieve Your Long-Term Goals: Make your projects add up to achievement by charting a path and gathering advice from mentors.

As we enter the new year, let’s view 2023 not as a single year, but as the first of more in which we will accomplish our long-term goals. Some results take a long time to achieve, and even though...

December 28, 20222 min read
How to Achieve Your Long-Term Goals: Make your projects add up to achievement by charting a path and gathering advice from mentors.
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How to Achieve Your Long-Term Goals: Make your projects add up to achievement by charting a path and gathering advice from mentors.

As we enter the new year, let’s view 2023 not as a single year, but as the first of more in which we will accomplish our long-term goals. Some results take a long time to achieve, and even though...

December 28, 20222 min read
Should AI Moderate Social Media: Deciding which posts to show or hide is a human problem, not a tech problem.
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Should AI Moderate Social Media: Deciding which posts to show or hide is a human problem, not a tech problem.

What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers.

December 14, 20222 min read

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