Data Points
ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.
Data Points
Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.
Machine Learning Research
Training successive neural networks on the outputs of previous networks gradually degrades performance. Will future models succumb to the curse of recursive training?
Machine Learning Research
The universe of web pages includes correct answers to common questions that are used to test large language models. How can we evaluate new models if they’ve studied the answers before we give them the test?
Tech & Society
AI coding assistants are brewing codebases that once were the sole province of human programmers. Will AI systems take over software development?
Tech & Society
Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?
Tech & Society
The globe’s growing AI infrastructure requires huge amounts of electricity, possibly more than power providers can generate responsibly. Could AI models suck energy resources dry?
Letters
Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.
Data Points
Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.
Data Points
Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.
Letters
Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed. For large companies, too, the speed with which an innovation team is able to iterate has a huge impact on its odds of success.