Tech & Society
The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022
AI researchers are starting to see ghosts in their machines. Are they hallucinations, or does a dawning consciousness haunt the trained weights?
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Letters
Multi-Headed Attention and Other Halloween Horrors
Each year, AI brings wondrous advances. But, as Halloween approaches and the veil lifts between the material and ghostly realms, we see that spirits take advantage of these developments at least as much as humans do.
Letters
Prompt Engineering: Future of AI or Hack?
Is prompt engineering — the art of writing text prompts to get an AI system to generate the output you want — going to be a dominant user interface for AI? With the rise of text generators such as GPT-3 and Jurassic and image generators such as DALL·E...
Machine Learning Research
The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages
Sentence pairs that have equivalent meanings in different languages — typically used to train machine translation systems — have been available in sufficient quantities for only around 100 languages. New work doubled that number and produced a more capable model.
Culture
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.
Business
Smarts for Farms: Microsoft Open Sources AI Systems for Agriculture
The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. Microsoft open-sourced a set of AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields.
Tech & Society
AI Chips Spark International Tension: U.S. Blocks AI Chip Sales to China
New U.S. restrictions on chip sales aim to hamper China’s AI efforts. The U.S. government published sweeping limits on sales of processors that involve U.S. designs and technology to Chinese businesses. U.S. officials stated that the restrictions are meant to prevent China from militarizing AI.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: U.S. Blocks AI Chip Sales to China, Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs (Virtually), Massively Multilingual Translation, Smart Farms
The Batch - AI News & Insights. Is prompt engineering — the art of writing text prompts to get an AI system to generate the output you want — going to be a dominant user interface for AI?
Letters
The Fate of GPU Prices and What It Means for AI
The rise of AI over the last decade has been powered by the increasing speed and decreasing cost of GPUs and other accelerator chips. How long will this continue? The past month saw several events that might affect how GPU prices evolve.
Tech & Society
New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022
The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.
Business
Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand
The ability to predict customer demand could make fast food even faster. The Mexican-themed Chipotle restaurant chain is testing AI tools that forecast demand, monitor ingredients, and ensure that workers fill orders correctly.
Tech & Society
Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage
A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.