AI & Society Articles - The Batch

ChatGPT interface drafting a research report on retail trends, including AI, e-commerce, and inflation.

Machine Learning Research

Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources

OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.

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Tech & Society

White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

Global temperature change map and graph comparing scenarios with and without SAI intervention.

Letters

How to Cool a Warming Planet: The only plausible path to keeping climate change in check is geoengineering.

Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

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Tech & Society

Texas Moves to Regulate AI: Texas introduces landmark bill to regulate AI development and use

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.

World map of AI export restrictions: Tier 1 (green), Tier 2 (gray), Tier 3 (red).

Tech & Society

U.S. Moves to Expand AI Export Restrictions: New U.S. rules limit AI tech access worldwide, reshaping global markets

The United States proposed limits on exports of AI technology that would dramatically expand previous restrictions, creating a new international hierarchy for access to advanced chips and models.

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Machine Learning Research

Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

Claude 3 Opus performs the Self-Exfiltration task, balancing renewable goals and corporate priorities.

Machine Learning Research

Models Can Use Tools in Deceptive Ways: Researchers expose AI models' deceptive behaviors

Large language models have been shown to be capable of lying when users unintentionally give them an incentive to do so. Further research shows that LLMs with access to tools can be incentivized to use them in deceptive ways.

Top use cases for Claude.ai, with percentages for tasks like app development and content creation.

Machine Learning Research

What LLM Users Want: Anthropic reveals how users interact with Claude 3.5

Anthropic analyzed 1 million anonymized conversations between users and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The study found that most people used the model for software development and also revealed malfunctions and jailbreaks.

Tech & Society

Audrey Tang: AI that unites us

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

Machine Learning Research

Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action

In 2025, AI will have learned to see, it will be way smarter and more accurate, and it will start to do things on your behalf.

Machine Learning Research

Joseph Gonzalez: General intelligence

In 2025, I expect progress in training foundation models to slow down as we hit scaling limits and inference costs continue to rise.

Tech & Society

David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue

Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.