“With Congress largely stalled on any serious plans to regulate AI across the tech industry, legislation applied specifically to federal agencies may be Washington’s best chance to put its imprint on the fast-moving technology.”
@paulroetzer
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Company Updates AI Model Policies Banning Political Campaign Use
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The company last updated its policies in March, which now ban people from using its models for, among other things, building products for political campaigning or lobbying, payday lending, unproven dietary supplements, dating apps, and “high risk government decision-making,”
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Google PaLM 2 Training Uses Five Times More Text Data
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Google's PaLM 2 uses nearly five times more text data than predecessor https://
cnbc.com/2023/05/16/goo
gles-palm-2-uses-nearly-five-times-more-text-data-than-predecessor.html
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U.S. Government Intensifies Focus on AI Regulation and Copyright
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“The U.S. government’s interest in AI is certainly picking up. Yesterday we had the high-profile hearing on generative AI with Sam Altman and others, and today political leaders are exploring intellectual property, copyrights, and the impact on creators.”
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Text-to-Deck Becoming Native in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
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Text to deck is going to be a huge use case in business as the tech improves. Expect Google and Microsoft to make this capability native in Office and Workspace soon too. https://t.co/jfhkPBrrG0
— Paul Roetzer (@paulroetzer) 17 mai 2023Text to deck is going to be a huge use case in business as the tech improves. Expect Google and Microsoft to make this capability native in Office and Workspace soon too.
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AGI Claims Reputation Risk Among Computer Scientists
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“Making A.G.I. claims can be a reputation killer for computer scientists. What one researcher believes is a sign of intelligence can easily be explained away by another, and the debate often sounds more appropriate to a philosophy club than a computer lab.”
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GPT-4 Early AGI Version Capabilities According Lex Fridman
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In the Lex Fridman interview, he seemed to think GPT-4 may be a very early version of AGI. So if there are capabilities they are holding back (which is very likely), it’s possible he believes they are way closer than most would know.
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Claude AI Integration Transforms Zoom Contact Center Performance
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“The first product integration of Claude will occur in the Zoom Contact Center portfolio, where Claude will help improve the end-user experience and enable superior contact center agent performance.”
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Self-regulation dominates AI policy discussions despite lack of action
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Nice headlines, but as they say in the clip, highly likely that nothing happens as a result of these conversations. Self-regulation appears to be the path forward for the foreseeable future.
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Google Bard and EU Privacy Laws: AI Compatibility Concerns
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“A number of experts…suspect Google is using Bard to send a message that the EU’s laws around privacy / online safety aren’t to its liking. But more than this, it could be a sign that generative AI as it exists is…incompatible with…privacy and online safety laws in the EU.”