Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured ancient scrolls recovered using AI, restrictions on AI robocalls, the extreme energy requirements of GPU data centers, and Würstchen, a system that produced superior images after far less training. But first:
Machine Learning Research
The longer text-to-image models train, the better their output — but the training is costly. Researchers built a system that produced superior images after far less training.
Hardware
The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
Tech & Society
The United States outlawed unsolicited phone calls that use AI-generated voices.
Tech & Society
Three researchers decoded scrolls that had gone unread since they were turned into charcoal by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.
Machine Learning Research
Most people understand that others’ mental states can differ from their own. For instance, if your friend leaves a smartphone on a table and you privately put it in your pocket, you understand that your friend continues to believe it was on the table.
Tech & Society
GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study. OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.
Tech & Society
Hugging Face introduced four leaderboards to rank the performance and trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs). The open source AI repository now ranks performance on tests of workplace utility, trust and safety, tendency to generate falsehoods, and reasoning.
Tech & Society
Sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift galvanized public demand for laws against nonconsensual, AI-enabled pornography.
Letters
On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, which pits chatbots against each other anonymously and prompts users to judge which one generated a better answer...
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The Batch AI News and Insights: On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, which pits chatbots against each other anonymously and prompts users to judge which one generated a better answer, Google’s Bard (Gemini Pro)
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a deepfake scandal that is driving new AI laws, Hugging Face's leaderboards to evaluate model performance and safety,