When assessing the Executive Order on AI, it’s imperative you consider the bias of the people providing analysis. For this week’s podcast I broke it down into four groups (note, I did this in about 5 minutes before we recorded, so I may evolve and amend them moving forward): >
POLICY
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Rep Eshoo advocates safe AI development beyond big tech entities
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"We need to develop AI that is safe, trustworthy, and responsible," said @RepAnnaEshoo at this morning’s discussion on public sector AI. We must develop AI beyond a small group of entities to be able to innovate, to benefit everyone, she said. Webinar https://
stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist
er/WN_Bqn2Lbg3TGGlMxXRurgEng#/registration
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Securing Maritime Equipment: Piracy Threats in International Waters
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uh, for starters how would you guard the equipment from pirates? seems like a painted target in international waters.
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Stanford HAI’s NAIRR Pilot Program Integrated into Presidential Executive Order
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We @StanfordHAI are very proud of our work over the past years to bring forth this effort – now NAIRR’s pilot program is part of the EO by @POTUS . Here is a quick recap of how we get here 2/2
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Congressional AI Caucus Discusses Executive Order on AI Research
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Congresswoman, chair of the congressional AI Caucus @RepAnnaEshoo is now here @StanfordHAI discussing w/ us the implications of yesterday’s Executive Order on AI from @POTUS
, especially the National AI Research Resource. Panelists include @Rbaltman @kingjen & John Etchemendy 1/2 -
President’s Executive Order on AI Key Highlights
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A few interesting points highlighted by @kchonyc in the President's Executive Order on AI.
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Biden’s AI Executive Order Scope and Expert Perspectives
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While writing about @JoeBiden
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Overhyped AI risks threaten open-source innovation through stifling regulation
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My greatest fear for the future of AI is if overhyped risks (such as human extinction) lets tech lobbyists get enacted stifling regulations that suppress open-source and crush innovation. Read more in our Halloween special issue of the Batch:
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H100 GPU Reporting Requirements: AI Models Comparison
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I asked GPT4, Claude and Llama2 to tell me how many H100 GPUs I need before I need to start reporting to the US Government.
They all got it wrong * GPT said 25m GPUs
* Claude said 250k GPUs
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Microsoft’s AI-generated poll damages Guardian’s reputation
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oof no Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll
Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’ https://
theguardian.com/media/2023/oct
/31/microsoft-accused-of-damaging-guardians-reputation-with-ai-generated-poll
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