Machine Learning Research
Conversational Robots: RFM-1, a model that enables robots to understand and act on human commands
Robots equipped with large language models are asking their human overseers for help.
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Letters
Agentic Design Patterns Part 1: Four AI agent strategies that improve GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 performance
I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it.
The Batch Newsletter
Robots Talk Back, AI Security Risks, Political Deepfakes, Pretrained Models on the Cheap
The Batch AI News and Insights: I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it.
Data Points
The latest in AI from Mar. 14 to Mar. 20, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured conversational robots, security risks in Hugging Face’s platform, the use of deepfakes in India's 2024 elections, Google's generative news tools...
Machine Learning Research
Toward Safer, More Helpful Models
The technique known as reinforcement learning from human feedback fine-tunes large language models to be helpful and avoid generating harmful responses such as suggesting illegal or dangerous activities. An alternative method streamlines this approach and achieves better results.
Tech & Society
India Warns Devs — No Unreliable AI: India advises pre-approval for new AI deployments by tech firms.
India advised major tech companies to seek government approval before they deploy new AI models.
Tech & Society
Anthropic Ups the Ante: Anthropic introduces Claude 3, a new trio of multimodal models.
Anthropic announced a suite of large multimodal models that set new states of the art in key benchmarks.
Letters
Life in Low Data Gravity: With generative AI, data is bound less tightly to the cloud provider where it’s stored. This has big implications for developers, CIOs, and cloud platforms.
I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing.
The Batch Newsletter
Anthropic Ups the Ante, India Warns Developers, Google Tests Generative News, Learning Language Without Language Training
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing.
Data Points
The latest in AI from Mar. 7 to Mar. 13, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured Anthropic's new multimodal models, India's warning to devs, Google's generative news tools, and an agent that learns language by exploration. But first:
Machine Learning Research
Learning Language by Exploration: Agent develops language skills through simulated exploration tasks
Machine learning models typically learn language by training on tasks like predicting the next word in a given text. Researchers trained a language model in a less focused, more human-like way.
Tech & Society
Google Tests Generative News Tools: Google funds newsrooms to test AI-powered article generation tools.
Google is paying newsrooms to use a system that helps transform press releases into articles.