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Robotaxis Face Headwinds: San Francisco pushes back on self-driving cars.
San Francisco officials are pushing back on self-driving taxis in the city after a deluge of public complaints.
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Self-Driving Deception: Tesla allegedly misled the public about its self-driving.
Tesla, whose autonomous-vehicle technology has been implicated in a number of collisions, promoted it in a way that apparently was intended to deceive. Tesla deliberately misled the public about its vehicles’ ability to drive themselves, according to Bloomberg and other news outlets.
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Regulators Target Deepfakes: China's new law limits AI-generated media.
China’s internet watchdog issued new rules that govern synthetic media. Legislation from the Cyberspace Administration of China limits the use of AI to create or edit text, audio, video, images, and 3D digital renderings. The law took effect on January 10.
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Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.
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Bot Therapy and Informed Consent: Discord's Kokobot triggers an ethics controversy.
An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics.
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Autonomous Drone Carrier: Meet Zhuhaiyun, the Chinese Navy's new autonomous ship.
A Chinese naval ship navigates autonomously and controls a swarm of onboard drones. The Zhuhaiyun, billed as the first autonomous drone carrier, officially entered service after 12 hours of trials on open water, the South China Morning Post reported.
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Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...
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ChatGPT Backlash: ChatGPT faces backlash over plagiarism fears.
The Batch - AI News & Insights. The breakout text generator faces resistance — even within the AI community. Organizations including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the New York Department of Education banned OpenAI's ChatGPT...
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Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.
Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.
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Will We Have Enough Data?
The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.
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What the AI Community Wants in 2023
In last week’s issue of The Batch, Yoshua Bengio, Alon Halevy, Douwe Kiela, Been Kim, and Reza Zadeh shared their hopes for AI in 2023. I also asked people on LinkedIn and Twitter about their hopes for AI this year. Rather than...
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Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.