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.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
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.
Business
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.
Business
Data Does Not Want to Be Free: Reddit and Stack Overflow ask AI devs to pay for data.
Developers of language models will have to pay for access to troves of text data that they previously got for free. The discussion platform Reddit and question-and-answer site Stack Overflow announced plans to protect their data from being used to train large language models.
The Batch Newsletter
Data Providers Hike Prices, Google AI Plans Leak, Music Stars Get Cloned, Image Generators Copy Training Data
The Batch - AI News & Insights: 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.
Business
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.
The Batch Newsletter
Record Industry Fights Generated Music, AWS Launches GenAI Platform, France Embraces Surveillance, Prompt Generation
The Batch - AI News & Insights: The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations...
Letters
Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.
The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations, focusing on direct-to-consumer...