Tech & Society
A judge rejected key claims in a lawsuit by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the first decision in a series of court actions related to generative AI.
Letters
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
Machine Learning Research
Published in mid-2022, DreamBooth enables Stable Diffusion to depict variations on a given subject; say, a particular dog and the same dog with angel wings or wearing a chef’s hat.
Data Points
A company that mines data to mine critical minerals; Doctors use chatbots to deal with insurers; A travel agent powered by AI; An LLM health coach backed by OpenAI
Data Points
AWS’s new co-code app developer; How Alibaba is using AI to expand abroad; A chatbot grounded in climate reporting; Traffic numbers for the top AI sites
Machine Learning Research
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces memory requirements when fine-tuning large language models, but it isn’t as conducive to pretraining.
Business
Amazon hired most of the staff of agentic-AI specialist Adept AI in a move that echoes Microsoft’s absorption of Inflection in March.
Tech & Society
The boom in AI is jeopardizing big tech’s efforts to reach its targets for emissions of greenhouse gasses.
Tech & Society
Claude 3.5 Sonnet lets users work on generated outputs as though they were independent files — a step forward in large language model user interfaces.
Letters
I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.