Tech & Society
GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes: Early insights into what OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision can do
Few people have had a chance to try out OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V), but many of those who have played with it expressed excitement.
Latest
The Batch Newsletter
GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes, Meta’s Generative Facelift, Newsrooms Respond to AI, Beware Training on Generated Data
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Over the weekend, Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel, slaughtering and kidnapping civilians.
Letters
Horror and Heartbreak: It's time for people of conscience to condemn Hamas’ attack on Israel.
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
Coding Skill is More Valuable Than Ever: Don't let the ease of prompting large language models discourage you from learning to code.
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
More Scraped Data, Greater Bias: Research shows that training on larger datasets can increase social bias.
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
Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.
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
AI's New Power Couple, Movie Industry Limits AI, YouTube Goes Generative, More Web Data = More Bias
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 and Anthropic Form Alliance: A multibillion dollar deal between Amazon and Anthropic changes the race for AI in the cloud.
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
U.S. Film Industry Limits AI: Hollywood screenwriters and studios make a deal to end the writers' strike.
Screenwriters and movie studios reached a landmark agreement that restricts uses of AI to produce scripts for television and movies.
Letters
Better Relationships Through AI: Doctors say there’s an epidemic of loneliness. Here's how large language models can help.
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
How Vision Transformers See: A new understanding of what's happening inside transformers
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
ChatGPT Goes Multimodal, Dating Apps Embrace AI, Microsoft Doubles Down on Chatbots, AI Drives Energy Efficiency
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…