Business
Painting With Text, Voice, and Images: ChatGPT now accepts voice and image inputs and outputs.
The updates expand ChatGPT into a voice-controlled, interactive system for text and image interpretation and production.
Vision
Business
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.
Machine Learning Research
Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.
Machine Learning Research
Don’t Steal My Style: Glaze tool prevents AI from learning an artist's style.
Asked to produce “a landscape by Thomas Kinkade,” a text-to-image generator fine-tuned on the pastoral painter’s work can mimic his style in seconds, often for pennies. A new technique aims to make it harder for algorithms to mimic an artist’s style.
Tech & Society
Battlefield Chat: A military chatbot can create battle plans.
Large language models may soon help military analysts and commanders make decisions on the battlefield.
Machine Learning Research
Image Generators Copy Training Data: Spotting similarities between generated images and data
We know that image generators create wonderful original works, but do they sometimes replicate their training data? Recent work found that replication does occur.
Tech & Society
Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.
French lawmakers said “oui” to broad uses of AI-powered surveillance. France’s National Assembly authorized authorities to test systems that detect unlawful, dangerous, or unusual behavior at next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The bill will become law unless the country’s top court blocks it.
Machine Learning Research
Vision and Language Tightly Bound: Training on a single loss function improves multimiodal AI.
Recent multimodal models process both text and images as sequences of tokens, but they learn to represent these distinct data types using separate loss functions. Recent work unifies the loss function as well.
Business
GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.
Get ready for the next wave of language-model mania. OpenAI introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models to widespread excitement. The company showed statistics and examples designed to demonstrate...
Machine Learning Research
Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation
Training a model to separate the objects in a picture typically requires labeled images for best results. Recent work upped the ante for training without labels.
Tech & Society
Transparency for AI as a Service: Amazon introduces service cards to enhance responsible AI.
Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.
Tech & Society
Will We Have Enough Data?
The world’s supply of data soon may fail to meet the demands of increasingly hungry machine learning models. Researchers at Epoch AI found that a shortage of text data could cause trouble as early as this year. Vision data may fall short within a decade.