Tech & Society
Robots for Romance: A new generation of smart apps for dating and relationships
Several new apps put deep learning at the center of finding a mate. Some provide chatbot surrogates while others aim to offer matches.
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Business
Painting With Text, Voice, and Images: ChatGPT now accepts voice and image inputs and outputs.
The updates expand ChatGPT into a voice-controlled, interactive system for text and image interpretation and production.
Tech & Society
U.S. Plans to Expand Drone Fleet: The Pentagon has a $1.8 billion AI budget for 2024.
The United States military aims to field a multitude of autonomous vehicles.
Culture
Music Generation For the Masses: Stability.ai launches Stable Audio, a text-to-music generator.
Stability.ai, maker of the Stable Diffusion image generator and StableLM text generator, launched Stable Audio, a system that generates music and sound effects from text. You can play with it and listen to examples here. The service is free for 20 generations per month up to 45 seconds long.
Tech & Society
Machine Translation at the Border: Faulty translations jeopardize asylum applications.
For some asylum seekers, machine translation errors may make the difference between protection and deportation.
The Batch Newsletter
Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers
The Batch - AI News & Insights: While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI...
Letters
Which AI Applications Should You Build? Here's How to Decide: AI isn't ideal for everything. How can you decide which use cases to build? Think about tasks, not jobs.
While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI, I’ve found the following recipe useful as a brainstorming aid…
Machine Learning Research
Masked Pretraining for CNNs: ConvNeXt V2, the new model family that boosts ConvNet performance
Vision transformers have bested convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in a number of key vision tasks. Have CNNs hit their limit? New research suggests otherwise.
Tech & Society
Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.
Tech & Society
GenAI Violated Copyright? No Problem: Microsoft commits to cover copyright violation costs for GenAI services.
Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...
Letters
Where Are the Opportunities in AI? Here's Where to Look: Generative AI opens the way to create valuable products, especially in the application layer.
I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I'd like to share a few observations from that presentation, and I invite you to watch the video (37 minutes).
Tech & Society
ChatGPT for Big Biz: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise.
A new version of ChatGPT upgrades the service for corporate customers. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which combines enhanced data-privacy features with a more capable language model. The price is negotiable on a case-by-case basis.