Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a project to support your AI research, how generative AI is working at the service of Indian chili farmers, an analysis of U.S. job listings that shows AI jobs' growth outside traditional...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last year, a number of large businesses and individuals went to the media and governments and pushed the message that AI is scary, impossible to control, and might even lead to human extinction.
Machine Learning Research
Text-to-video has struggled to produce consistent motions like walking and rotation. A new approach achieves more realistic motion.
Tech & Society
An analysis of United States job listings shows AI jobs are growing rapidly outside traditional tech hubs. Researchers at University of Maryland analyzed the distribution of AI jobs among U.S. job postings. California hosts the largest concentration...
Tech & Society
Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers.
Tech & Society
The United States government wants to connect U.S. AI researchers with resources that can help them develop their projects.
Machine Learning Research
Machine learning algorithms often struggle with geometry. A language model learned to prove relatively difficult theorems.
Tech & Society
Governments want access to AI chips and software built in their own countries, and they are shelling out billions of dollars to make it happen. Nations across the world are supporting homegrown AI processing and development, The Economist reported.
Tech & Society
Europeans are keeping their jobs even as AI does an increasing amount of work. Researchers at the European Central Bank found that employment in occupations affected by AI rose over nearly a decade.
Science
A neural network detected early signs of pancreatic cancer more effectively than doctors who used the usual risk-assessment criteria. Researchers at MIT and oncologists at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston...
Letters
Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of leaders in government, business, and culture at Davos, Switzerland.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a neural network that helps detect early signs of pancreatic cancer, a report on AI's impact on jobs, governments' pursuit of AI independence, and a new system that generates high-level geometry proofs. But first...