Multimodal
One Model Does It All: Multi-task AI models got more sophisticated in 2022.
Individual deep learning models proved their mettle in hundreds of tasks. The scope of multi-task models expanded dramatically in the past year.
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Tech & Society
Language Models, Extended: Large language models grew more reliable and less biased in 2022.
Researchers pushed the boundaries of language models to address persistent problems of trustworthiness, bias, and updatability.
Tech & Society
AI's Eyes Evolve: Vision transformer research exploded in 2022.
Work on vision transformers exploded in 2022. Researchers published well over 17,000 ViT papers during the year. A major theme: combining self-attention and convolution.
Business
Programmer’s Best Friend: Code generation services took off in 2022.
Behind schedule on a software project? There’s an app for that. Language models fine-tuned on computer code proved capable of generating software routines similar to the work of experienced developers — though the results can be hit-or-miss.
Tech & Society
Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.
The Batch Newsletter
Top AI Stories of 2022: AI Gets Creative, Relief for Coders, Language Models You Can Trust, One Model to Do Them All, Vision Transformers Bust Loose
The Batch - AI News & Insights: As the winter holiday approaches, it occurs to me that, instead of facing AI winter, we are in a boiling-hot summer of AI.
Letters
Should AI Moderate Social Media: Deciding which posts to show or hide is a human problem, not a tech problem.
What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers.
Machine Learning Research
Memorize Less; Retrieve More: How small language models can perform specialized tasks.
Large language models are trained only to predict the next word based on previous ones. Yet, given a modest fine-tuning set, they acquire enough information to learn how to perform tasks such as answering questions.
Tech & Society
Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.
Tech & Society
The World Cup's AI Referee
The outcome of the FIFA World Cup 2022 depends on learning algorithms. The annual championship tournament of football, which wraps up this week, is using machine learning to help human arbiters spot players who break a rule that governs their locations on the field.
Business
Drive Different: Apple plans self-driving car release for 2026.
Apple is redrawing the road map for its self-driving car. The company is redesigning an autonomous car that has been in development for nearly a decade, Bloomberg reported. Originally intended to be fully autonomous under all conditions, the redesigned vehicle will allow for a human driver.
The Batch Newsletter
FIFA World Cup's AI Referee, Apple Car Downshifts, Lensa AI Disrobes Users, Language Model Consults Database
The Batch - AI News & Insights: What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers.