Letters
I’m delighted that the crisis at OpenAI, which you can read about below, seems to have been resolved with an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO after his sudden firing last week.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: This week, I’m speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in San Francisco, where leaders in business and government have convened to discuss AI and other topics.
Machine Learning Research
Online sorting algorithms run trillions of times a day to organize lists according to users’ interests. New work found faster alternatives. Daniel J. Mankowitz and colleagues at Google developed AlphaDev, a system that learned to generate algorithms that sort three...
Business
Weeks after it announced a huge partnership deal with Amazon, Anthropic doubled down on its earlier relationship with Alphabet.
Tech & Society
ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.
Tech & Society
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies.
Letters
This week, I’m speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in San Francisco, where leaders in business and government have convened to discuss AI and other topics.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: The past week has been an unusual split-screen time in AI. On one side, I see rapidly developing innovations from OpenAI, as well as Elon Musk's Grok and Kai-Fu Lee's open source Yi-34B large language model.
Machine Learning Research
Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...
Machine Learning Research
Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...
Tech & Society
An international conference of political leaders and tech executives agreed to regulate AI. 28 countries including China and the United States as well as the European Union signed a declaration aimed at mitigating AI risks.
Tech & Society
OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.