Machine Learning Research
LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town
Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.
Tech & Society
China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs
The latest wave of large language models trained in Chinese is open source for some users. Internet giant Alibaba released large language models that are freely available to smaller organizations.
Hardware
GPU Shortage Intensifies: All about Nvidia's GPU shortage
Nvidia’s top-of-the-line chips are in high demand and short supply. There aren’t enough H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to meet the crush of demand brought on by the vogue for generative AI, VentureBeat reported.
Letters
Tips for Taking Advantage of Open Large Language Models: Prompting? Few-Shot? Fine-Tuning? Pretraining from scratch? Open LLMs mean more options for developers.
An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications.
Tech & Society
The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.
Science
Rigorous Trial: AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis.
A deep learning system detected breast cancer in mammograms as well as experienced radiologists, according to a landmark study.
Letters
Does AI Understand the World?: There's no scientific test for understanding, but there is evidence that large language models understand the world to some extent.
Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything. There’s no widely agreed-upon, scientific test for whether a system really understands — as opposed to appearing to understand —
The Batch Newsletter
Medical AI Advances, Chatbots Work the Drive-Thru, ChatGPT Racks Up Server Fees, Image Generators Get an Upgrade
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything.
Machine Learning Research
Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture
A tweak to diffusion models, which are responsible for most of the recent excitement about AI-generated images, enables them to produce more realistic output.
Tech & Society
Robots Work the Drive-Thru: Drive-thru fast-food restaurants are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
Chatbots are taking orders for burgers and fries — and making sure you buy a milkshake with them. Drive-thru fast-food restaurants across the United States are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
Machine Learning Research
Long-Range Weather Forecasts: This ML-based forecast simulator outperformed medium-range forecast systems.
Machine learning models have predicted weather a few days ahead of time. A new approach substantially extends the time horizon. Remi Lam and colleagues at Google developed GraphCast, a weather-forecasting system based on graph neural networks (GNNs).