Tech & Society
Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court
A U.S. court ruled against an implementation of AI-powered software designed to catch students who cheat on academic examinations.
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Culture
Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit, Teaching Language Models New Info, Court Rules Against AI Proctoring, Predicting Breakdowns Keeps Factories Humming
The Batch - AI News & Insights. Stable Diffusion, an image generation model that takes a text prompt and produces an image, was released a few weeks ago in a landmark event for AI.
Letters
Text-to-Image Generation and the Path to Truly Open AI
Stable Diffusion, an image generation model that takes a text prompt and produces an image, was released a few weeks ago in a landmark event for AI. While similar programs can be used via API calls or a web user interface, Stable Diffusion can be freely downloaded and run on the user’s hardware.
Business
The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China
The ban impacts Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips, and AMD's MI250.
Business
Reading Readers: Inside The New York Times' AI-Powered Paywall
A smart news paywall is optimizing subscriptions without driving away casual readers by showing them subscription pop-ups.
Machine Learning Research
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.
Tech & Society
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools
Letters
Scientific Research Wants to be Free: US Officials Block Paywalls on Gov-Funded Studies
I’m thrilled! Paywalled journals that block free access to scientific research are the bane of the academic community.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: GPU Geopolitics, Spotting Tax Cheats, Luring Subscribers, Accelerating Transformers
The Batch - AI News & Insights. Paywalled journals that block free access to scientific research are the bane of the academic community.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Misinformation Recognition, China's AI ROI, Neural Nets Catch Fresher Fish, Object Detection Transformers Simplified
I’ve devoted several recent letters to building a career in AI. In this one, I’d like to discuss some fine points of finding a job.The typical job search follows a fairly predictable path.
Machine Learning Research
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.