Letters
Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured OpenAI's Sora, Huawei's AI chips, an AI system to double-check judges' decisions in competitive gymnastics, and Würstchen, and a way to reduce memory requirements when fine-tuning large language models. But first:
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.
Letters
The rise of cloud-hosted AI software has brought much discussion about the privacy implications of using it. But I find that users, including both consumers and developers building on such software
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: The rise of cloud-hosted AI software has brought much discussion about the privacy implications of using it. But I find that users, including both consumers and developers...
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured ancient scrolls recovered using AI, restrictions on AI robocalls, the extreme energy requirements of GPU data centers, and Würstchen, a system that produced superior images after far less training. But first:
Machine Learning Research
The longer text-to-image models train, the better their output — but the training is costly. Researchers built a system that produced superior images after far less training.
Hardware
The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
Tech & Society
The United States outlawed unsolicited phone calls that use AI-generated voices.
Tech & Society
Three researchers decoded scrolls that had gone unread since they were turned into charcoal by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.
Machine Learning Research
Most people understand that others’ mental states can differ from their own. For instance, if your friend leaves a smartphone on a table and you privately put it in your pocket, you understand that your friend continues to believe it was on the table.
Tech & Society
GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study. OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.