Year in Review
Prices Tumble: AI price wars drive costs down as competition heats up
Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.
Year in Review
Prices Tumble: AI price wars drive costs down as competition heats up
Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.
Year in Review
Agents Ascendant: LLMs evolve with agentic workflows, enabling autonomous reasoning and collaboration
The AI community laid the foundation for systems that can act by prompting large language models iteratively, leading to much higher performance across a range of applications.
Year in Review
Agents Ascendant: LLMs evolve with agentic workflows, enabling autonomous reasoning and collaboration
The AI community laid the foundation for systems that can act by prompting large language models iteratively, leading to much higher performance across a range of applications.
Year in Review
Top Stories of 2023: Generative Everything, Doomsday Visions, Hollywood Versus AI, AI's Hit Record, Copyright Owners Revolt
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research.
Year in Review
Top Stories of 2023: Generative Everything, Doomsday Visions, Hollywood Versus AI, AI's Hit Record, Copyright Owners Revolt
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research.
Year in Review
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.
Year in Review
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.
Year in Review
High Anx-AI-ety: A recap of 2023's battle between AI doomsday warnings and regulatory measures
Angst at the prospect of intelligent machines boiled over in moves to block or limit the technology. Fear of AI-related doomsday scenarios prompted proposals to delay research and soul searching by prominent researchers. Amid the doomsaying, lawmakers took dramatic regulatory steps.
Year in Review
High Anx-AI-ety: A recap of 2023's battle between AI doomsday warnings and regulatory measures
Angst at the prospect of intelligent machines boiled over in moves to block or limit the technology. Fear of AI-related doomsday scenarios prompted proposals to delay research and soul searching by prominent researchers. Amid the doomsaying, lawmakers took dramatic regulatory steps.
Year in Review
Can I Use This Data?: Conflict over information sources sparked legal and business turmoil in 2023.
Information may not want to be free after all. The age-old practice of training AI systems on data scraped from the web came into question as copyright owners sought to restrict AI developers from using their works without permission.
Year in Review
Can I Use This Data?: Conflict over information sources sparked legal and business turmoil in 2023.
Information may not want to be free after all. The age-old practice of training AI systems on data scraped from the web came into question as copyright owners sought to restrict AI developers from using their works without permission.
Year in Review
Hollywood Squares Off: This year, AI helped reshape the film industry landscape.
The movie capital became a front line in the battle over workplace automation. U.S. film and television writers went on strike in May, and actors followed in July. They took up a variety of issues with their employers, but concern that AI would damage...
Year in Review
Hollywood Squares Off: This year, AI helped reshape the film industry landscape.
The movie capital became a front line in the battle over workplace automation. U.S. film and television writers went on strike in May, and actors followed in July. They took up a variety of issues with their employers, but concern that AI would damage...
Year in Review
Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023
This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types.
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