The Batch

Oct 04, 2023

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Illustration of two people greeting each other in two languages: English and Python
Oct 04, 2023

Coding Skill is More Valuable Than Ever: Don't let the ease of prompting large language models discourage you from learning to code.

Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment...
Fused swarm-box-violinplot that captures HCR metrics
Oct 04, 2023

More Scraped Data, Greater Bias: Research shows that training on larger datasets can increase social bias.

How can we build large-scale language and vision models that don’t inherit social biases? Conventional wisdom suggests training on larger datasets, but research challenges this assumption.
A YouTube Short showing an edited video of the Paris Fashion Week featuring penguins
Oct 04, 2023

Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.

YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.
Illustration of two people greeting each other in two languages: English and Python
Oct 04, 2023

AI's New Power Couple, Movie Industry Limits AI, YouTube Goes Generative, More Web Data = More Bias

The Batch - AI News & Insights: Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment...
Animation showing the Anthropic and Amazon logos with the dollar sign
Oct 04, 2023

Amazon and Anthropic Form Alliance: A multibillion dollar deal between Amazon and Anthropic changes the race for AI in the cloud.

Amazon cut a multi billion-dollar deal with AI startup Anthropic, giving it a powerful ally in the generative arms race. Amazon committed to investing as much as $4 billion in Anthropic. In return, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the primary provider of Anthropic’s Claude and other models.
WGA strike participant holding a picket sign
Oct 04, 2023

U.S. Film Industry Limits AI: Hollywood screenwriters and studios make a deal to end the writers' strike.

Screenwriters and movie studios reached a landmark agreement that restricts uses of AI to produce scripts for television and movies.

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