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Week 7: What's Happening in AI
Proposed rules follow Executive Order, first-of-its-kind AI bias lawsuit, GPT-4 for content moderation, AGI in 2-3 years, and more.
Below: First-of-its-kind AI bias lawsuit, GPT-4 for content moderation, AGI in ‘2-3 years’, and more. First, this week’s big story: White House calls for China tech ban
Why this matters: This Executive Order will guide rule-making on U.S. investment into ‘technologies and products (e.g., semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and AI) in countries of concern’ (China, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR).
What’s next: Treasury lays out proposed rules
Consider: PE, VC investors on Biden's China tech ban: We're ready
Comments: “It’s the right thing to do”, “everything could be AI”, “increasingly complex”
Policy
Americas:
EEOC settles first-of-its-kind AI bias lawsuit and U.S. state rules begin to take shape
Senator Warner outlines what he wants to know about Google’s Med-PaLM2 deployment in healthcare
Waymo, Cruise get approval to offer 24/7 paid robotaxi rides in SF
ICYMI: The state of state AI laws (more here)
Europe and Africa:
Update on U.K. PM Rishi Sunak’s plans for an AI summit
EU tech envoy: ‘The winds have changed’ on regulating Silicon Valley
Nigerian tech leaders cheer insider’s rise to president’s cabinet as ‘watershed’ moment
ICYMI: TikTok on fulfilling commitments under the EU’s Digital Services Act
Asia and Australia:
How does generative AI learn? Japan prepares disclosure rules
Google appeals using online content for AI training unless firms opt-out
ICYMI: China’s Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services took effect Aug. 15
Responsible AI
Data, information, and trust:
Health and science:
Recursion CTO: AI supercharges drug discoveries, potentially changing medicine
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability
ICYMI: Demo of IBM and NASA’s new climate model (more here)
Security and privacy:
'Hypnotized' ChatGPT and Bard will try to convince users to pay ransoms
Zoom rewrites its policies to make clear that your videos aren't used to train AI tools
ICYMI: Why companies are turning their chatbots over to hackers at DEF CON
Resources:
Where AI is going
Interview: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says AGI in ‘2-3 years’
Launches, partnerships, and updates:
Workforce:
Robots to the rescue? (more here)
Compute and chips:
Alibaba chief warns of constraints as China AI training ramps up
Nvidia set to hop AI forward with next-gen Grace Hopper Superchip
U.S. Commerce Department is reaping hundreds of Chips Act inquiries
ICYMI: CoreWeave and Tenstorrent close rounds; Nvidia H100 GPUs: supply and demand
Financialization of AI (ex. raising money on the basis of GPU allocations), commentary by Anthropic’s Jack Clark
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