Machine Learning Research
A 3D Mesh From One 2D Image: The combination of video diffusion and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) can produce a 3D mesh from a single image
Video diffusion provides a new basis for generating 3D models.
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Business
AI Progress Report, Manufacturing: Manufacturers embrace AI despite talent and data challenges
Manufacturers are embracing AI even as they struggle to find the talent and data required.
Tech & Society
Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.
How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
Tech & Society
Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.
A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.
Machine Learning Research
Tuning LLMs for Better RAG: Meta’s RA-DIT boosts language model output by optimizing text retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models to generate better output by retrieving documents that are relevant to a user’s prompt. Fine-tuning further improves RAG performance.
Tech & Society
GPT Store Shows Lax Moderation: A report exposes policy violations in OpenAI’s GPT Store.
OpenAI has been moderating its GPT Store with a very light touch. In a survey of the GPT Store’s offerings, TechCrunch found numerous examples of custom ChatGPT instances that appear to violate the store’s own policies.
Tech & Society
Hallucination Creates Security Holes: Researcher exposes risks in AI-generated code
Language models can generate code that erroneously points to software packages, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.
Tech & Society
Custom Agents, Little Coding: All about Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder
Google is empowering developers to build autonomous agents using little or no custom code.
Letters
Agentic Design Patterns Part 5, Multi-Agent Collaboration: Prompting an LLM to play different roles for different parts of a complex task summons a team of AI agents that can do the job more effectively.
Multi-agent collaboration is the last of the four key AI agentic design patterns that I’ve described in recent letters.
The Batch Newsletter
AI Agents With Low/No Code, Hallucinations Create Security Holes, Tuning for RAG Performance, GPT Store’s Lax Moderation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Multi-agent collaboration is the last of the four key AI agentic design patterns that I’ve described in recent letters. Given a complex task like writing software, a multi-agent approach would break...
Data Points
Big Updates for GPT-4 Turbo, Gemini 1.5, Mixtral, and More: Plus, AI Helps Rebuild Lost Memories
This week's top AI news and research stories featured all about Google's Vertex AI Agent Builder, security holes in generated code, a series of policy violations in the GPT Store, and RA-DIT, a fine-tuning procedure that trains an LLM and retrieval model together to improve the...
Tech & Society
What Users Do With Generative AI: Studies from Filtered and Pew uncover trends in generative AI usage
Generative AI is being used mostly to generate ideas. The tech consultancy Filtered studied the most common uses for generative AI. While most gen AI users produced text, the study surprisingly found that users were slightly more likely to generate videos than images.