a computer sits on the grass plugged into a huge nuclear reactor cooling tower –ar 5:3 –style raw
Data Centers Now Need a Reactor’s Worth of Power, Dominion Says – Bloomberg
“Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
World leaders call for ban on ‘killer robots,’ AI weapons • The Register
US official urges China, Russia to declare only humans, not AI, control nuclear weapons | Reuters
Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board to Advance AI’s Responsible Development and Deployment | Homeland Security
“👋 Meet Victoria Shi — a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular affairs! For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has presented a digital persona that will officially comment for the media.
Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the ‘dead internet’ | The Independent
“There has been a lot of debate on how to deal with copyright issues for AI art, but this interesting paper is one of the first to offer a solution as to how compensation of copyright holders could technically work, given the explainability problem in AI.
“Tucker Carlson: We have a moral obligation to strangle AI in its crib , bomb the data centers
“I’ve got colleagues asking who this is. So, for the record, her name is 0_1.webp
“This morning the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. The 22 inaugural members include Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and many others.
Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition | TechCrunch
8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. – The New York Times
TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English | Technology | The Guardian
“California Bill 1047 has been fasttracked: • Covers all models made w/ 10^26 flops • Covers all models with similar perf to above • Creates a Frontier Model Division to report to • Devs must assert such models are safe under penalty of perjury text:
Reconciling Effective Altruism and E/acc
Microsoft Strikes Major Green Power Deal With Brookfield Renewable – Bloomberg
“Simulating people for predictive sociology: researchers simulated Republican & Democratic people using an LLM trained on data from 2019 and before, and probed them for their attitudes towards a then-hypothetical COVID-19, observing similar polarization in responses to real life.
GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading advisories • The Register
“There’s a new bill, SB-1047 “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act”. I think it could do a great deal of harm to startups, American innovation, open source, and safety. So I’ve written a response to the authors: 🧵
Ukraine Unveils AI-generated Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman | Barron’s
Department of Commerce Announces New Actions to Implement President Biden’s Executive Order on AI | U.S. Department of Commerce
US Homeland Security names AI safety, security advisory board – Software – iTnews
Altman handpicked for Homeland Security’s AI safety board
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board – WSJ
Jensen Huang, Sam Altman invited to federal AI Safety Board • The Register
CEOs of OpenAI, Google and Microsoft to join other tech leaders on federal AI safety panel | CNN Business
“Only 14 languages have DPO preference style datasets on the @huggingface Hub. Let’s improve that! How? The @CohereForAI Aya dataset has human-annotated prompt-completion pairs in 71 languages. We can use this to create DPO datasets for more languages!” / X
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AI News #31: Week Ending 05/03/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 95 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
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