Tech & Society
When Safety Becomes Surveillance: Colleges Track Students Using AI Designed to Monitor Mental Health
United States colleges tracked activists using a natural language processing system intended to monitor their mental health.
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Business
Tanks for All the Fish: A Company is Growing Shrimp in AI-Controlled Shipping Containers
Farming shrimp in an open pond produces toxic effluent that can pollute groundwater and coastal waters. An AI-driven farm in a box may offer a more sustainable alternative.
The Batch Newsletter
Safety or Surveillance?, What Businesses Want from AI, Right-Sizing Models, AI-Driven Aquaculture
The Batch - AI News & Insights: The economic downturn of the past six months has hit many individuals and companies hard, and I’ve written about the impact of rising interest rates on AI. The effects of high inflation, the Russian war in Ukraine, and an economic...
Letters
How AI Can Help Counteract Climate Change: It's Time to Consider Cooling the Earth By Atmospheric Aerosol Injection
A new report from UN Climate Change says that the world might be on track for 2.5 °C of warming by the end of the century, a potentially catastrophic level of warming that’s far above the 1.5 °C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Machine Learning Research
Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages
Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.
Tech & Society
Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts
Neural networks are helping humanitarian observers measure the extent of war damage to Ukraine’s grain crop. Analysts from the Yale School of Public Health and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a computer vision model that detects grain-storage facilities in aerial photos.
Tech & Society
Pushing Voters' Buttons: How AI is Used to Create Persuasive Political Ads
As the United States (along with several other countries) gears up for general elections, AI is helping campaigns attract voters with increasing sophistication.
Business
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.
The Batch Newsletter
Generative AI Brings Big Bucks, Assessing Ukraine War Damage, Candidates Target Voters, Translating 1,000 Languages
The Batch - AI News & Insights. A new report from UN Climate Change says that the world might be on track for 2.5 °C of warming by the end of the century, a potentially catastrophic level of warming that’s far above the 1.5 °C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Tech & Society
Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI
A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Happy Halloween! Neural Nets Awaken, Foundation Models Go Rogue, Bots Take Over the Office, GPUs Dry Up
The Batch - AI News & Insights. Each year, AI brings wondrous advances. But, as Halloween approaches and the veil lifts between the material and ghostly realms, we see that spirits take advantage of these developments at least as much as humans do.
Tech & Society
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?