Tech & Society
China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.
China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.
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Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
Anthropic, the startup behind the safety-focused Claude chatbot, teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
The Batch Newsletter
Battle Over Training Data Heats Up, AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction, Vision Transformers Get Flexible
The Batch - AI News & Insights: Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM).
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The Hidden Value of Deep Technical Knowledge: What's the best way to prompt a large language model? Understand the technology.
Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM).
Machine Learning Research
Vision Transformers Made Manageable: FlexiViT, the vision transformer that allows users to specify the patch size
Vision transformers typically process images in patches of fixed size. Smaller patches yield higher accuracy but require more computation. A new training method lets AI engineers adjust the tradeoff.
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AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.
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News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.
The New York Times launched a multi-pronged attack on the use of its work in training datasets. The company updated its terms of service to forbid use of its web content and other data for training AI systems.
The Batch Newsletter
GPU Shortage, Affordable Robodog, Humanizing Large Language Models, China's Open LLMs
The Batch - AI News & Insights: An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications.
Machine Learning Research
LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town
Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?
Tech & Society
ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.
Tech & Society
China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs
The latest wave of large language models trained in Chinese is open source for some users. Internet giant Alibaba released large language models that are freely available to smaller organizations.