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 

• DOD announces establishment of generative AI task force 

• 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

• Guide to China’s 2023 major research program on AI methods 

• ICYMI: ​​China’s Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services took effect Aug. 15

Responsible AI

Data, information, and trust:

• Using GPT-4 for content moderation (more here)

• Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online

• Why it’s impossible to build an unbiased AI language model

• Poll: Americans distrust AI giants 

Health and science:

• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot 

• 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: 

• How to match LLM patterns to problems (more here)

• Livestream with HuggingFace to review the most recent AI models

• AI 101 for Teachers

Where AI is going

• Interview: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says AGI in ‘2-3 years’ 

• Why 2024 will be the deepfake election 

Launches, partnerships, and updates:

• Google’s search updates

• Anthropic raises $100M and Weights & Biases raises $50M

• Nvidia teams up with HuggingFace

Workforce:

• Jobs are for humans 

• AI can’t build a high-rise, but it can speed up the job 

• 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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