Archive - The Update of The Gradient

Update #83: AI Music Fraud and PlanSearch

We look at the mechanics of AI-assisted music streaming fraud; researchers develop a new algorithm for LLM code generation that leverages inference time…

Sep 11, 2024 •

Mini-Update #47: First International AI Safety Treaty and the WavTokenizer Codec

The UK signs on to the first international AI safety treaty and a novel audio codec model allows for high-quality information transmission in fewer…

Sep 10, 2024 •

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August 2024

Update #82: AI Lawsuits and SOPHON

We look at the numerous ongoing lawsuits against AI giants; researchers develop a method to address the risk of pre-trained models being repurposed for…

Aug 27, 2024 •

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Mini-Update #46: OpenAI-Condé Nast Partnership and Flexible Perception

Major publishing company Condé Nast grants OpenAI the rights to train models on their work, and Google Deepmind researchers integrate visual memory…

Aug 21, 2024 •

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Update #81: The EU AI Act's Enforcement and Self-Taught Evaluators

Welcome to the 81st update from the Gradient!

Aug 13, 2024 •

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Mini-Update #45: OpenAI Security Breach and Accessible Diffusion Models

AI adoption struggles in enterprises and Meta's Segment Anything Model 2.

Aug 8, 2024 •

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July 2024

Update #80: Kamala Harris's AI Policy and End-To-End Causal Effect Estimation from Unstructured Natural Language Data

We look at Harris's stances on AI regulation; researchers introduce the NATURAL framework for causal effect estimation.

Jul 30, 2024 •

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Update #79: Does AI Music Have a Future? Can Vision-Language Models See?

Two leading AI music startups are sued by major record labels; researchers find that VLMs are poor at understanding basic spatial information.

Jul 16, 2024 •

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Mini-Update #44: OpenAI Security Breach and Accessible Diffusion Models

OpenAI insiders reveal security breach a year later, and researchers at Apple partner with other organizations to produce a tutorial on developing…

Jul 11, 2024 •

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Update #78: Accelerating Candy Crush Development and Neural Network Flexibility

Activision Blizzard scientists discuss AI's role in Candy Crush; researchers study neural networks' flexibility in fitting data.

Jul 2, 2024 •

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June 2024

Mini-Update #43: OpenAI buys Rockset and Diffusion on Syntax Trees for Code Generation

OpenAI buys Rockset in a bid to enhance its retrieval capabilities and researchers train a diffusion model to write code to produce images

Jun 26, 2024 •

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Update #77: AI-Generated News Cannibalizes Journalism and Open-Endedness for Superintelligence

BNN Breaking turns out to be an AI chop shop; DeepMind argues that open-endedness is essential for "superintelligent" systems.

Jun 18, 2024 •

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