Tech & Society
Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency
Before this past year, when I told people I worked in AI, more often than not I was met with a blank stare and sometimes a question along the lines of: “You mean like robots?”
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Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models
Only a year ago, ChatGPT woke the world up to the power of foundation models. But this power is not about shiny, jaw-dropping demos.
Tech & Society
Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion
The past year has seen incredible innovation in AI, and I expect as much or more in 2024. The coming year undoubtedly will be a year of rapid progress in models – multimodal, multilingual, and (hopefully) smaller and faster.
Tech & Society
Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories
The year 2023 was an inflection point in the development of broadly useful AI systems across text, image, video, audio, and other modalities. At Runway alone, we saw the release of video-generation models such as Gen-1 and Gen-2...
Letters
The View From NeurIPS 2023: NeurIPS 2023 was chockablock with generative AI, large multimodal models, autonomous agents — and anxiety about the pace of development.
Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research.
The Batch Newsletter
Top Stories of 2023: Generative Everything, Doomsday Visions, Hollywood Versus AI, AI's Hit Record, Copyright Owners Revolt
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research.
Tech & Society
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.
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High Anx-AI-ety: A recap of 2023's battle between AI doomsday warnings and regulatory measures
Angst at the prospect of intelligent machines boiled over in moves to block or limit the technology. Fear of AI-related doomsday scenarios prompted proposals to delay research and soul searching by prominent researchers. Amid the doomsaying, lawmakers took dramatic regulatory steps.
Tech & Society
Can I Use This Data?: Conflict over information sources sparked legal and business turmoil in 2023.
Information may not want to be free after all. The age-old practice of training AI systems on data scraped from the web came into question as copyright owners sought to restrict AI developers from using their works without permission.
Tech & Society
Hollywood Squares Off: This year, AI helped reshape the film industry landscape.
The movie capital became a front line in the battle over workplace automation. U.S. film and television writers went on strike in May, and actors followed in July. They took up a variety of issues with their employers, but concern that AI would damage...
Year in Review
Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023
This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types.
Data Points
The latest in AI from December 7 to December 13, 2023
This week's top AI news and research stories featured all about Google's Gemini, updates on the EU's AI Act, the AI Alliance led by Meta and IBM, and a novel twist on self-supervised learning. But first: