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Week 4: What's Happening in AI - Responsible Innovation Labs

Policy speeds up, opportunities and risks of AI, and more.

Jul 27, 2023
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Below: Policy speeds up, opportunities and risks of AI, and more. First, highlights for founders and investors:

  • Biden-⁠Harris administration secures voluntary commitments from leading AI companies to manage the risks posed by AI

  • Senate imposes new rules on outbound investments into China

  • House committee takes aim at US VCs for investments in Chinese AI

| Policy

Americas:

  • Senator Peters’ big idea for AI

  • Senator Schumer looks to tuck AI into huge defense bill

  • Why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cares about tech and AI

  • Senator Casey rolls out bills to protect workers from AI surveillance and 'robot bosses'

Europe:

  • The EU is forging a relationship with California on data privacy

  • 10 Members of European Parliament ask for a moratorium on tracking of users

  • EU Commission mulls rules on algorithmic management in workplace

Asia:

  • Beijing’s top leaders offer fresh backing to country’s big tech sector

  • China announces rules to keep AI bound by ‘core socialist values’

International organizations:

  • UN chief calls for global AI agency

ICYMI: Do foundation model providers comply with the draft EU AI Act?

| Responsible AI

Security and safety:

  • Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, on the paradoxes of AI safety

  • A framework to securely use LLMs in companies - overview of risks

  • Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds

Economy:

  • Shared prosperity guidelines for AI-creating organizations

  • China’s live-streaming e-commerce market faces disruption as AI virtual hosts lower costs, work round the clock

Accuracy and data:

  • OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’

  • One-pager on baseline individual rights and data privacy

ICYMI: AI explainability in practice with Portal Telemedicine

| Where AI is going

  • The next token of progress: 4 unlocks on the generative AI horizon

  • The timeline for realistic 4-D: Devi Parikh from Meta on generative AI in video and multimodality

  • The open source learning curve for AI researchers

Compute:

  • Cerebras’ supercomputer whirs to life, powered by giant computer chips

  • CoreWeave’s co-founder, Brannin McBee, on cloud GPUs (and $1.6B plan)

  • Stanford study challenges assumptions: Larger context doesn’t mean better understanding

Plus: FlashAttention-2 release, Stability AI’s FreeWilly, Apple tests ‘Apple GPT', Cohere’s Coral, Google's Bard enters Europe, Worldcoin launches

| Society

  • AI boom's big winners are all in four US states (More here)

  • Artificial intelligence reshaping the jobs market in Australia’s biggest cities

Manufacturing:

  • TSMC delays Arizona factory that will eventually build chips for iPhones and AI

  • Want to win a chip war? You’re gonna need a lot of water

  • More from India ($19.5B plan) and Singapore ($2B plan)

ICYMI: Who’s winning the AI race? It’s not that simple

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