Tech & Society
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.
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Tech & Society
Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.
Letters
Existential Risk? I Don't Get It!: Prominent computer scientists fear that AI could trigger human extinction. It's time to have a real conversation about the realistic risks.
Last week, safe.org asserted that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
The Batch Newsletter
Bengio, Too, is Anxious About AI; LAION Tests Copyright Law; Abu Dhabi Develops Top Model; Optimizing Matrix Multiplication
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, safe.org asserted that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Tech & Society
Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.
Culture
Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.
A popular musician is inviting fans to clone her voice. Result: a flood of recordings that sound just like her. Experimental pop star Grimes released GrimesAI-1, a generative audio tool that allows anyone to make recordings of their own singing or speech sound like her voice.
Tech & Society
Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.
Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.
Letters
Three New Courses!: Check out our short courses on Building Systems with the ChatGPT API, LangChain for LLM Application Development, and How Diffusion Models Work.
In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today.
The Batch Newsletter
New Push to Regulate AI, Weapons Detector Misses Knives, Grimes Embraces Voice Cloning, Text-to-Image Editing Evolves
The Batch - AI News & Insights: In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today.
Machine Learning Research
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.
The Batch Newsletter
EU's Algorithm Investigators, Crystal Ball for Interest Rates, Image Gen for Architects, Big Results From TinyML
The Batch - AI News & Insights: t’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set...
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Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.
It’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set — perhaps just a handful of examples specific to your application.