Letters
Over the weekend, Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel, slaughtering and kidnapping civilians. The images in the media are horrifying, and over 1,000 people...
Letters
Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment...
Machine Learning Research
How can we build large-scale language and vision models that don’t inherit social biases? Conventional wisdom suggests training on larger datasets, but research challenges this assumption.
Tech & Society
YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment...
Business
Amazon cut a multi billion-dollar deal with AI startup Anthropic, giving it a powerful ally in the generative arms race. Amazon committed to investing as much as $4 billion in Anthropic. In return, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the primary provider of Anthropic’s Claude and other models.
Tech & Society
Screenwriters and movie studios reached a landmark agreement that restricts uses of AI to produce scripts for television and movies.
Letters
Improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m concerned that AI romantic partners create fake relationships that displace, rather than strengthen, meaningful human relationships.
Machine Learning Research
While transformers have delivered state-of-the-art results in several domains of machine learning, few attempts have been made to probe their inner workings. Researchers offer a new approach.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below, improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m excited about the possibilities for large language models (LLMs) in romantic relationships…
Machine Learning Research
A reinforcement learning model maintains cooler temperatures in large data centers and other buildings.
Tech & Society
Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered assistants will roll out in the coming months.