Tech & Society
Machine Translation at the Border: Faulty translations jeopardize asylum applications.
For some asylum seekers, machine translation errors may make the difference between protection and deportation.
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Text-to-Music Generation, Military Drone Swarm, Machine Translation Blocks Asylum Seekers
The Batch - AI News & Insights: While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI...
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Which AI Applications Should You Build? Here's How to Decide: AI isn't ideal for everything. How can you decide which use cases to build? Think about tasks, not jobs.
While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI, I’ve found the following recipe useful as a brainstorming aid…
Machine Learning Research
Masked Pretraining for CNNs: ConvNeXt V2, the new model family that boosts ConvNet performance
Vision transformers have bested convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in a number of key vision tasks. Have CNNs hit their limit? New research suggests otherwise.
Tech & Society
Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.
Tech & Society
GenAI Violated Copyright? No Problem: Microsoft commits to cover copyright violation costs for GenAI services.
Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...
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Where Are the Opportunities in AI? Here's Where to Look: Generative AI opens the way to create valuable products, especially in the application layer.
I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I'd like to share a few observations from that presentation, and I invite you to watch the video (37 minutes).
Tech & Society
ChatGPT for Big Biz: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise.
A new version of ChatGPT upgrades the service for corporate customers. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which combines enhanced data-privacy features with a more capable language model. The price is negotiable on a case-by-case basis.
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ChatGPT Keeps Your Secrets, Microsoft Embraces GenAI Risk, Google Demands GenAI Disclosure
The Batch - AI News & Insights: I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I want to share a few observations from that presentation.
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High Wages for AI Talent, Fake Newscasters, DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization, AI for Good...
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Unlocking AI's Potential for Positive Impact: AI can make a difference when stakes are high and lives hang in the balance. Learn how in our new specialization, AI for Good.
Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization is designed to empower people to identify, scope, and build impactful AI projects.
Machine Learning Research
Different Media, Similar Embeddings: ImageBind, the AI model that binds data from seven data types at once
The ability of OpenAI’s CLIP to produce similar embeddings of a text phrase and a matching image opened up applications like classifying images according to labels that weren’t in the training set. A new model extends this capability to seven data types.