Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured an agent for many environments, an AI system to identify animal cell types from gene sequences, a system that analyzes satellite and geolocation data that has been used to identify targets in real-world conflicts...
Machine Learning Research
Research aims to help users select large language models that minimize expenses while maintaining quality.
Tech & Society
Synthetic depictions of politicians are taking center stage as the world’s biggest democratic election kicks off.
Tech & Society
Security researchers sounded the alarm about holes in Hugging Face’s platform.
Machine Learning Research
Robots equipped with large language models are asking their human overseers for help.
Letters
I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured conversational robots, security risks in Hugging Face’s platform, the use of deepfakes in India's 2024 elections, Google's generative news tools...
Machine Learning Research
The technique known as reinforcement learning from human feedback fine-tunes large language models to be helpful and avoid generating harmful responses such as suggesting illegal or dangerous activities. An alternative method streamlines this approach and achieves better results.
Tech & Society
India advised major tech companies to seek government approval before they deploy new AI models.
Tech & Society
Anthropic announced a suite of large multimodal models that set new states of the art in key benchmarks.
Letters
I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing.