Data Points
The latest in AI from February 1 to February 7, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a deepfake scandal that is driving new AI laws, Hugging Face's leaderboards to evaluate model performance and safety,
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Letters
The World Needs More Intelligence: Human intelligence is expensive, artificial intelligence is cheap. To solve big problems like climate change, it makes sense to double down on AI.
Last year, a number of large businesses and individuals went to the media and governments and pushed the message that AI is scary, impossible to control, and might even lead to human extinction. Unfortunately they succeeded: Now many people think AI is scary.
Data Points
The latest in AI from January 25 to January 31, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a project to support your AI research, how generative AI is working at the service of Indian chili farmers, an analysis of U.S. job listings that shows AI jobs' growth outside traditional...
The Batch Newsletter
AI Jobs Proliferate, Big Compute Giveaway, Generated Video Upgrade, Higher Yields for Small Farms
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last year, a number of large businesses and individuals went to the media and governments and pushed the message that AI is scary, impossible to control, and might even lead to human extinction.
Machine Learning Research
More Consistent Generated Videos: Lumiere, a system that achieves unprecedented motion realism in video
Text-to-video has struggled to produce consistent motions like walking and rotation. A new approach achieves more realistic motion.
Tech & Society
AI Jobs Grow Beyond Established Hubs: AI careers spread across the U.S., outgrowing traditional tech hubs.
An analysis of United States job listings shows AI jobs are growing rapidly outside traditional tech hubs. Researchers at University of Maryland analyzed the distribution of AI jobs among U.S. job postings. California hosts the largest concentration...
Tech & Society
High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.
Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers.
Tech & Society
Resources for Research: U.S. government launches pilot program to fuel AI innovation with national resources.
The United States government wants to connect U.S. AI researchers with resources that can help them develop their projects.
Machine Learning Research
Learning the Language of Geometry: AlphaGeometry, a system that nears expert proficiency in proving complex geometry theorems
Machine learning algorithms often struggle with geometry. A language model learned to prove relatively difficult theorems.
Tech & Society
Sovereign AI: Governments invest billions to secure homegrown AI technologies.
Governments want access to AI chips and software built in their own countries, and they are shelling out billions of dollars to make it happen. Nations across the world are supporting homegrown AI processing and development, The Economist reported.
Tech & Society
AI Creates Jobs, Study Suggests: European Central Bank study finds surprising growth in jobs affected by AI.
Europeans are keeping their jobs even as AI does an increasing amount of work. Researchers at the European Central Bank found that employment in occupations affected by AI rose over nearly a decade.
Science
Early Detection for Pancreatic Cancer: A neural network shows remarkable accuracy in forecasting risk of pancreatic cancer.
A neural network detected early signs of pancreatic cancer more effectively than doctors who used the usual risk-assessment criteria. Researchers at MIT and oncologists at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston...