This week saw major developments in AI policy: the US issued an Executive Order, the G7 adopted an International Code of Conduct, and the UK hosted a landmark summit on AI safety, producing the Bletchley Declaration.
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State of AI Report 2023: Comprehensive Overview of AI Developments
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The State of AI Report 2023 was released a few days ago. The report is one-stop center of all interesting things that happened last year(prior to release): developments and trends in AI research, industry, politics & safety, and future predictions. https://
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Platforms Changing Beliefs Over Reinforcement Echo Chambers
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Awesome. Possibly the first time I ever heard that on X! Imagine if this platform were geared towards sometimes changing people’s beliefs, and not just to reinforcing them.
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Cruise’s Safety Claims Questioned: Remote Assist Dependency Exposed
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1. Cruise’s omission was massive; every claim about their putative safety has to be rethought.
2. More will come out about how dependent they were on remote assist
3. What they have is likely too dependent on data transmission to work on highways or at scale. 4. No further -
Grok Launch Six Months After Elon’s AI Pause Letter
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Grok, almost six months to the day after Elon signed the pause letter. Too perfect.
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Algorithmic engagement optimization versus truth in content
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It’s designed to make you feel something, not designed to reflect the world. Causing you to feel disgust, disbelief, or pity is a victory condition; if it can accomplish that will outcompete a less evocative video of a family eating dinner. “Solve for equilibrium.” as they say.
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Elon Musk criticized over AI pause letter stance
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song of the day, and this one goes out to @elonmusk
, from all the other 33,000 people who signed the pause letter, “Sexy Sadie, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone You made a fool of everyone Sexy Sadie, oh, what have you done?” -
TikTok activism and online misinformation shaping foreign policy discourse
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Thanks for sharing how this was landing for you. My takeaway from it was the TikTok activism part because it’s relatable to my experience of everyone online turning into a foreign policy expert on Taiwan when they used to confuse it with Thailand.
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Government accountability in AI policy decisions
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Depends if you assume the government cares about people!
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Fair Use and AI Training: Legal Arguments and Copyright Implications
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Notice how this particular legal argument goes against what Anthropic is arguing. Fair Use implies it does fall under Copyright… What's missing from this analysis is that the determination of Fair Use depends on the application itself, whether it's harmful to rightsholders.