Tech & Society
OpenAI Expands Platform Play: OpenAI releases the GPT store, a curated chatbot marketplace.
The GPT Store is open for business, providing curated, searchable access to millions of chatbots tailored for specific purposes.
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Tech & Society
AI Busts Out at CES: CES 2024 showcased AI's reach beyond browsers and smartphones.
The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased products that take advantage of increasingly powerful, increasingly accessible AI capabilities. Many debuts at the massive CES show showed that large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond browsers and smartphones.
Letters
Outstanding Research Without Massive Compute: Researchers at Stanford and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network dramatically simplified a key algorithm for training large language models.
It is only rarely that, after reading a research paper, I feel like giving the authors a standing ovation. But I felt that way after finishing Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by...
The Batch Newsletter
AI Discovers New Antibiotics, OpenAI Revamps Safety, Researchers Define AGI, LLMs Go Multimodal
The Batch AI News and Insights: It is only rarely that, after reading a research paper, I feel like giving the authors a standing ovation. But I felt that way after finishing Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by...
Data Points
The latest in AI from January 4 to January 10, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured all about new antibiotics discovered by deep learning, OpenAI’s new safety protocol, a new attempt to define what we mean when we say artificial general intelligence (AGI), and a training method that enables...
Machine Learning Research
Text or Images, Input or Output: GILL, an innovative approach to multimodal model training
GPT-4V introduced a large multimodal model that generates text from images and, with help from DALL-E 3, generates images from text. However, OpenAI hasn’t fully explained how it built the system. A separate group of researchers described their own method.
Tech & Society
AGI Defined: Researchers propose a taxonomy for artificial general intelligence (AGI).
How will we know if someone succeeds in building artificial general intelligence (AGI)? A recent paper defines milestones on the road from calculator to superintelligence.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Revamps Safety Protocol: Inside OpenAI's framework to evaluate and mitigate model risks
Retrenching after its November leadership shakeup, OpenAI unveiled a new framework for evaluating risks posed by its models and deciding whether to limit their use.
Science
Deep Learning Discovers Antibiotics: Researchers used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics.
Biologists used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics. Researchers at MIT and Harvard trained models to screen chemical compounds for those that kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadliest among bacteria that have...
Letters
The New York Times versus OpenAI and Microsoft: The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, but the real issues and harms are not clear.
Last week, the New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging massive copyright infringements. The suit claims, among other things, that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of copyrighted NYT articles to train their models...
Business
Vive L’Intelligence Artificielle: Paris emerges as a hub for AI ventures.
AI ventures are thriving in the French capital. Paris is host to a crop of young companies that focus on large language models. TechCrunch surveyed the scene. Paris is well situated for an AI boomlet...
Tech & Society
AI Against Climate Change: A roadmap explores how AI can detect and mitigate greenhouse gases.
How can AI help to fight climate change? A new report evaluates progress so far and explores options for the future. The Innovation for Cool Earth Forum, a conference of climate researchers hosted by Japan...