Week 18: What's Happening in AI

OpenAI’s DevDay releases. Global policymakers continue to act on AI. Events in the Bay Area, NYC, and more. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Welcome to this week’s edition of What's Happening in AI, covering the latest in policy, responsible AI, and where AI is going for the Responsible Innovation Labs community.

Below: OpenAI’s DevDay releases. Global policymakers continue to act on AI. Meet-ups and events in the Bay Area, NYC, and London. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Policy

Americas:

• U.S. AI Safety Institute established by U.S. Dept. of Commerce through NIST

• Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s achievements (more here, here, and here)

Europe:

• British PM Sunak secures ‘landmark’ deal on AI testing (notably China did not agree)

• UK invests $273 million in AI supercomputer as it seeks to compete with U.S., China

Asia:

• Why China’s involvement in the U.K. AI Safety Summit was so significant (more here)

• Korea to co-host mini virtual summit in 2024 with U.K. to build on AI Safety Summit

• India to host the Global Partnership on AI to discuss AI risks next month

Responsible AI

Product and alignment:

• GPT-4 Turbo and new developer products released at OpenAI’s DevDay

• AI risks take center stage at AI Safety Summit

• AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’ (more here)

Health and science:

• Oncology researchers raise ethics concerns posed by patient-facing AI

• SoulChat: Improving LLMs' empathy, listening, and comfort abilities through fine-tuning

Information and security:

• AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

• The new era of social media looks as bad for privacy as the last one

• How AI-based cybersecurity strengthens business resilience

Finance:

• AI bot performed insider trading and lied about its actions, study shows

• Meet the election betting startup suing the government

• How fintech fuels global payments

Resources and convenings:

• Til Nov. 15: Global events around Cerebral Valley (various hosts)

• Nov. 8-9: The Responsible AI Leadership Summit (Credo.ai)

• Australian leaders on digital identity and responsible AI (IAPP)

• Nov. 16: Being Predictive: Financial AI and the Regulatory Future (Cato Institute)

Where AI is going

Humanity:

• What is digital life? with OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever

• Civil society groups call for regulation to address well-established harms (more here)

• How "digital twins" could help us predict the future with aerospace engineer Karen Wilcox

Capabilities:

• ChatGPT-powered hierarchical comparisons for image classification

• Stability AI’s latest tool uses AI to generate 3D models

• Google DeepMind’s robotics head on general purpose robots, generative AI and more

Stack and ecosystem:

• YaRN context window extension method

• Datadog reports on real-world container use

• Gradient CEO on an AI dev platform to customize open source LLMs

Climate and energy:

• How AI helps combat climate change

• ICYMI: Caltech grad student on  "gyms" for AI sustainability

Releases, raises, more:

• Releases: Yi-34B (01.AI, China), Grok (xAI), MistralLite (Mistral, France)

• Raises: Aleph Alpha ($500M), Next Insurance ($265M), Shield AI ($200M), Qi Tech ($200M)

• More: Flexport acquires Convoy, CGI and Google expand partnership

Extra resources

• The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI (Fei-Fei Li)

• When does a startup know it’s time to spread its wings? (TechCrunch)

• ICYMI: Getting feedback right on diverse teams (Harvard Business Review)

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