Week 9: What's Happening in AI

EU Digital Services Act, CodeLlama and GPT-4 compete, brain-to-voice AI, Nvidia’s record earnings, and more.

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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: EU Digital Services Act, CodeLlama and GPT-4 compete, brain-to-voice AI, Nvidia’s record earnings, and more. First, this week’s big story: Big Tech’s to-do list under new EU content rules and what’s next.

• Why this matters: The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) sets rules for the responsibilities of digital service providers. ‘Micro and small companies’ will have obligations proportionate to size and ability. (more here)

• What’s next: Full enforcement by February 17, 2024, with an August 25 start date for ‘very large’ companies 

• Consider: “[Fast growing companies] would benefit from a targeted exemption from a set of obligations during a transitional 12-month period” (more here)

• Comments: Complying with the DSA (Google) and more from TikTok, Snap, and Meta

Policy

Americas: 

• Schumer to host AI forum with CEOs including Musk and Zuckerberg 

• SEC reforms private fund rules and brings its first NFT enforcement action

• Corporate AI legal policies race to keep up (ex. Salesforce, Meta, Databricks)

• NIST to standardize encryption algorithms that can resist attack by quantum computers

Europe:

• EU’s AI Act raises questions around who will watch the watchers

• Study: Majority of AI applications fall short on GDPR 

Asia:

• India’s PM Modi flags concerns over bias in AI; calls for ethical use

• ICYMI: China to limit use of generative AI in online healthcare activities 

Responsible AI

Health and science:

• How AI gave a paralyzed woman her voice back

• AI-powered biological software with Job Uszkoreit, Inceptive's Co-Founder

• ChatGPT shows ‘impressive’ accuracy in clinical decision making

• ICYMI: Scientific Advisory Board for independent advice announced by UN Secretary-General

Identity and security:

• The latest AI scams look and sound just like you

• Deepfake detection tools must work with dark skin tones, experts warn

• Google and Microsoft are supercharging AI deepfake porn

• US hacks QakBot, quietly removes botnet infections

Workforce:

• WhatsApp was able to support 50 billion messages a day with only 32 engineers

• Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ 

• ICYMI: The Indian startup making AI fairer for workers (more here) 

Resources:

• Securing AI memo (Greylock)

• Playbook for Universal Design (DTU Skylab)

• AI Nutrition Facts 'Create Your Own Label' (Twilio)

• Basics on board oversight of AI risks (Volkov Law Group)

• 3 trillion token open dataset for pretraining, Dolma (Allen Institute for AI)

Where AI is going

• Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B

Compute and access:

• Nvidia's knockout earnings give tech a giddy whiff of 1995 (more here)

• Tesla's $300M AI cluster is going live

• Preparing for commercial chiplets

• Opinion: We must pass the Create AI Act (Stanford HAI)

Information and society:

• Google’s SynthID, a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out

• Amazon, NYT, more are increasingly blocking OpenAI's GPTBot (more here)

• Despite cheating fears, schools repeal ChatGPT bans

• Opinion: ISPs should not police online speech — no matter how awful (EFF)

Climate and efficiency:

• AI, the internet’s next great power suck

• IBM Research’s newest prototype chips use drastically less power 

• Intro: Liquid neural networks and reduced resource intensiveness

Releases and raises:

• Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise

• Arthur unveils Bench, an open-source AI model evaluator

• Korea’s internet giant Naver unveils generative AI services

• New tools and features: Google Workspace, Twilio, DoorDash

• Raises: Arm's upcoming IPO, Hugging Face ($235M), Modular ($100M), EvolutionaryScale ($40M, biotech), Irreverent Labs (undisclosed), Ideogram ($16.5M seed)

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