Tech & Society
The U.S. state of Colorado started regulating the insurance industry’s use of AI. Colorado implemented the first law that regulates the use of AI in life insurance and proposed extending the limits to auto insurers.
Machine Learning Research
In a study, models used to detect people walking on streets and sidewalks performed less well on adults with darker skin and children of all skin tones.
Tech & Society
Amazon launched a chatbot for large companies even as internal tests indicated potential problems. Amazon introduced Q, an AI-powered assistant that enables employees to query documents and corporate systems.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured doctors' thoughts on AI medical devices, Microsoft and Siemens’ Industrial Copilot, all about Giskard, and a language model that speaks robot. But first...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: One year since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, it’s amazing how many large language models are available. A year ago, ChatGPT was pretty much the only game in town for consumers (using a web user interface)...
Letters
One year since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, it’s amazing how many large language models are available. A year ago, ChatGPT was pretty much the only game in town for consumers (using a web user interface) who wanted to use a large language model (LLM)...
Machine Learning Research
A pretrained large language model has helped a robot resolve high-level commands into sequences of subtasks. It can do this more precisely with additional training — both on language-vision tasks and robotics tasks.
Tech & Society
An open source tool automatically tests language and tabular-data models for social biases and other common issues. Giskard is a software framework that evaluates models using a suite of heuristics and tests based on GPT-4.
Hardware
ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself.
Tech & Society
The United States’ regulatory regime may not be clear or flexible enough to ensure the safety of AI-powered medical devices. Physicians and other health professionals believe that U.S. regulators have approved AI-powered medical products without proper oversight or disclosure.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’m delighted that the crisis at OpenAI, which you can read about below, seems to have been resolved with an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO after his sudden firing last week.
Machine Learning Research
The transformer architecture is astonishingly powerful but notoriously slow. Researchers have developed numerous tweaks to accelerate it — enough to warrant a look at how these alternatives work, their strengths, and their weaknesses.