Tech & Society
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Letters
How AI Can Strengthen Democracy
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Propagandists Lie About AI, Language Models Grok Images, Machines Triage Covid Cases, World Models Shrink
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered...
Business
Enterprise AI on the Rise: A 2021 survey of how business leaders are using AI.
A survey of AI in large companies sees boom times ahead — if AI teams can get past issues that surround implementation. Businesses of all sizes are using more machine learning, spending more on it, and hiring more engineers to wrangle it.
Science
Algorithms For Elephants: How AI tracking collars help protect endangered wildlife.
An AI-powered collar may help protect wild elephants from poachers, hunters, and other hostile humans. Ten ElephantEdge wireless tracking collars will be fitted onto African elephants next year, TechCrunch reported.
Tech & Society
U.S. New Year’s Resolutions for AI: All the AI programs authorized in the 2021 NDAA.
U.S. lawmakers authorized a slew of national programs that promote artificial intelligence research, development, and deployment, and support efforts to make sure the results are ethical and trustworthy.
Tech & Society
Online Clues to Mental Illness: NLP model spots signs of mental illness in Facebook posts.
Can social media posts reveal early signs of mental illness? A new machine learning model shows promising results. Researchers developed a model that analyzes messages and images posted by Facebook users for indicators of psychological problems.
Letters
AI Concentrates Power and Wealth
In my letter last week, I alluded to the way AI tends to concentrate power and wealth. This tendency worries me, and I believe it deserves more attention. The U.S. government has been looking into these winner-take-most dynamics at a few leading technology companies...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Clues to Mental Illness, Enterprise AI, Bias in Compressed Models, U.S. AI Strategy
In my letter last week, I alluded to the way AI tends to concentrate power and wealth. This tendency worries me, and I believe it deserves more attention.
Letters
Happy New Year! Three Aspirations for AI in 2021
Happy New Year! As we enter 2021, I want to share with you three wishes I have for AI in the upcoming year. I hope we can: Narrow the gap between proofs-of-concept and production.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: New Year Wishes From Fei-Fei Li, Harry Shum, Ayanna Howard, Ilya Sutskever, Matthew Mattina
Happy New Year! As we enter 2021, I want to share with you three wishes I have for AI in the upcoming year. I hope we can: Narrow the gap between proofs-of-concept and production. While building good models is important...
Interviews & Essays
Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI’s co-founder on building multimodal AI models
The past year was the first in which general-purpose models became economically useful. GPT-3, in particular, demonstrated that large language models have surprising linguistic competence and the ability to perform a wide variety of useful tasks.