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...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of leaders in government, business, and culture at Davos, Switzerland.
Letters
As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured highlights of The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), OpenAI’s GPT store, a new standard for media watermarks, and a training method that enables large language models (LLMs) and a tool that...
Machine Learning Research
A neural network makes music for unaccompanied vocal tracks. Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts, and colleagues at Google proposed SingSong, a system that generates musical accompaniments for sung melodies. You can listen to its output here.
Tech & Society
An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.
Tech & Society
The GPT Store is open for business, providing curated, searchable access to millions of chatbots tailored for specific purposes.