AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.
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AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.

AI risks are in the air — from speculation that AI, decades or centuries from now, could bring about human extinction to ongoing problems like bias and fairness.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.
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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.
Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development
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Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AI’s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting, I’m...
Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.
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Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.

There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think. Sometimes, I've spent all day on a weekend developing ideas only to find that I've spent less than $0.50.
New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more
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New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more

Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.
"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision
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"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision

My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.
Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.
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Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.

The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations, focusing on direct-to-consumer...
Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.
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Time to Push Back on AI Pessimism: The recent proposal to pause AI research is a wake-up call.

An ill-advised proposal for a 6-month pause in cutting-edge AI research got far more attention than I think it deserved. To me, this is a wake-up call that the AI doomers have done a much better job than the AI optimists at framing the narrative of progress in AI.
Figure showing how researchers obtained the Alpaca model
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When One Machine Learning Model Learns From Another: Was Google’s Bard trained on output from OpenAI's ChatGPT? The technique is legit, but it raises thorny questions.

Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Google’s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAI’s terms of use.
Emad Mostaque, Alexandr Wang, Andrew Ng, and Peter Diamandis at Abundance 360, March 20, 2023
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Catching AI's Next Wave: Generative AI will drive tremendous value and growth.

Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technology’s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology (GPT, not to be confused with the other GPT: generative pretrained transformer).
IBM Watson wins the television game show Jeopardy!, February 16, 2011
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AGI Progress Report: The latest AI models are exciting, but they're far from artificial general intelligence

Here’s a quiz for you. Which company said this? “It’s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind...
Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.
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Surviving Silicon Valley Bank: The collapse of SVB threatened tech startups, but brought the AI community together.

Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank suddenly collapsed. If it passed uneventfully from your point of view, good for you! Many companies worked nonstop through the weekend scrambling to preserve funds so they could pay their employees.
First mill-brand watermarked paper with the text "Old Council Tree Bond 100% Cotton Fiber"
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Watermarking is a No-Go: Market incentives will keep creators from watermarking AI-generated output.

ChatGPT has raised fears that students will harm their learning by using it to complete assignments. Voice cloning, another generative AI technology, has fooled people into giving large sums of money to scammers, as you can read in this issue of The Batch.

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