Tech & Society
Battlefield Chat: A military chatbot can create battle plans.
Large language models may soon help military analysts and commanders make decisions on the battlefield.
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Letters
Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.
There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think. Sometimes, I've spent all day on a weekend developing ideas only to find that I've spent less than $0.50.
The Batch Newsletter
Battlefield Chat, Protecting Artists' Styles, OpenAI Retools for Business, Language Models for Science Search
The Batch - AI News & Insights: There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think.
The Batch Newsletter
AI Scares Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, Radio Tests AI DJs, Generated Political Attack Ad
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.
Letters
New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more
Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.
Machine Learning Research
For Better Answers, Generate Reference Text: AI-generated reference text improves LLM output.
If you want a model to answer questions correctly, then enriching the input with reference text retrieved from the web is a reliable way to increase the accuracy of its output. But the web isn’t necessarily the best source of reference text.
Arts
Radio Stations Test AI DJs: RadioGPT creates AI-powered DJs for local broadcasts.
A language model will stand in for radio disk jockeys. RadioGPT generates radio shows tailored for local markets.
Tech & Society
U.S. Politics Goes Generative: U.S. Republicans released the first AI generated attack ad.
A major political party in the United States used generated imagery in a campaign ad. The Republican Party released a video entirely made up of AI-generated images.
Tech & Society
Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google
A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.
Letters
"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision
My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.
Machine Learning Research
Image Generators Copy Training Data: Spotting similarities between generated images and data
We know that image generators create wonderful original works, but do they sometimes replicate their training data? Recent work found that replication does occur.
Arts
Everybody Must Get Cloned: The voice cloning tools used to make AI-generated songs
Tech-savvy music fans who are hungry for new recordings aren’t waiting for their favorite artists to make them. Social media networks exploded last week with AI-driven facsimiles of chart-topping musicians.