AI 2030 Evangelist Digest 008- AI4Future: Top AI News (September 23-29, 2024)
By Kate Shcheglova-Goldfinch
AI-gov Lead & Research Affiliate at CJBS and regulatory innovations consultant, AI 2030 Evangelist
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This week has been marked by news of substantial investments in AI. The Labour Party has announced a ￡10 billion artificial intelligence project in Northumberland, backed by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman. Meanwhile, Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, revealed the creation of a $120 million fund for global AI education.
In addition, there was talk of scaling and monetising AI projects. Cloudflare has launched a new marketplace that will allow websites to charge AI bots for data scraping, while other players, including Google and Meta, have taken steps towards scaling through pricing. Google has reduced prices for its 1.5 Pro Gemini, while Meta has announced the release of Llama 3.2 - the first version of its free AI models with visual capabilities, which expands their utility for robotics, virtual reality, and so-called AI agents.
Regulators, meanwhile, have intensified their efforts to manage AI risks. The National Health Authority of India and the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur will collaborate on developing an open evaluation platform to be used for testing AI models. Australian regulators are set to engage in dialogue with banks to monitor AI implementation, and the United Nations has called for international cooperation, adopting a "Pact for the Future" along with the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration for Future Generations.
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A round-up of this week’s key developments.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $120M fund for global AI education
Speaking at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and announced a new fund for AI education and training around the world. He added that he wants to avoid a global “AI divide” and that Google is creating a $120 million Global AI Opportunity Fund through which it will “make AI education and training available in communities around the world” in partnership with local nonprofits and NGOs.
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The UN has adopted the “Pact for the Future” along with the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration for Future Generations
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“We, the Heads of State and Government, representing the peoples of the world, have gathered at the UN headquarters to protect the needs and interests of current and future generations through actions within this Pact for the Future.”
The Pact sets ambitious goals in the areas of:
· Sustainable development and development finance
· International peace and security
· Science, technology, innovation, and digital cooperation
· Youth and future generations
· Transformation of global governance
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Cloudflare’s new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping
Cloudflare?announced plans ?on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s larger plan to give publishers greater control over how and when AI bots scrape their websites. “If you don’t compensate creators one way or another, then they stop creating, and that’s the bit which has to get solved,” said Prince in an interview with TechCrunch.
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AI could be used to solve Britain’s most notorious cold cases, police chief says
Some of Britain’s most notorious cold cases could be solved with the help of artificial intelligence after a trial found it can review evidence which would take 81 years of man-hours in less than two days. Police chiefs hope the technology could be deployed in the future to simply ingest scores of case files to help identify new lines of inquiry for detectives. A trial by Avon and Somerset Police, using an Australian-developed AI tool called S?ze, tested the digital investigation platform on 27 complex cases.
India to harness Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) ?data to develop public AI
India's National Health Authority and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur will be collaborating to develop an open benchmarking platform for validating AI models. The organisations recently signed a memorandum of understanding?to use data to improve public health outcomes. IIT Kanpur will build a platform for publicly verifiable performance benchmarks based on data available in the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). This will be used to validate AI models for quantifying and diagnosing diseases.?
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving
“I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” she wrote in a post on X. “For now, my primary focus is doing everything in my power to ensure a smooth transition, maintaining the momentum we’ve built.” Murati’s departure comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the AI startup and temporarily ousted Altman, leaving Murati as its temporary leader. In her six-year tenure, she was responsible for the launch of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s text-to-image generator, DALL-E.
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Australian Regulators Working With Banks to Monitor AI Adoption
Australia’s financial regulators are engaging with the industry to understand and monitor the adoption of artificial intelligence, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday. The use of AI has brought economic benefits as banks have been using the tool for both back- and front-office operations to improve efficiency, but its widespread use brings risks, the RBA said in its semi-annual Financial Stability Review.
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Labour to announce ￡10bn AI project in Northumberland backed by pro-Trump billionaire
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The UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is set to announce the creation of a ￡10 billion artificial intelligence data centre, which will bring 4,000 jobs to North East England. It will be financed by a private investment company led by a prominent supporter of Donald Trump. The Prime Minister plans to meet with CEOs in New York, where he will seek to attract foreign investment into the UK. He will welcome the investment in the “AI data centre,” to be built in Blyth, Northumberland, by Blackstone, as a “vote of confidence in the UK.”
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Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
Two updated production-ready Gemini models released:?Gemini-1.5-Pro-002?and?Gemini-1.5-Flash-002?along with:
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Meta Releases Llama 3.2 - and Gives Its AI a Voice
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Meta’s AI assistants can now speak with the voices of celebrities and interpret users’ photos and other visual information. Meta also announced the release of Llama 3.2, the first version of their free AI models with visual capabilities, expanding their utility for robotics, virtual reality, and so-called AI agents.
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CMA clears Amazon’s ￡3bn investment into AI start-up Anthropic
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light to Amazon’s ￡3 billion ($4 billion) investment in generative AI start-up Anthropic, confirming that the deal does not meet the threshold for a more extensive review.
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Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity
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When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. So Rehberger did what all good researchers do: He created a proof-of-concept exploit that used the vulnerability to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity. OpenAI engineers took notice and issued a partial fix earlier this month.
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ABOUT Kate Shcheglova-Goldfinch
Kate has over 20 years of expert experience in the financial market, including 5 years of experience as an EBRD (NBU) consultant on fintech projects, including the development of the NBU Fintech Strategy 2025 and the creation and launch of the NBU regulatory sandbox. She has extensive experience in creating and moderating educational programmes for the financial market and regulators on topics such as fintech, digital assets (blockchain, DeFi), open banking, open finance, and AI. Currently, she is focused on AI regulation on a global level and in Ukraine, particularly on ethical implementation in the financial sector, and is preparing to launch an educational programme on AI for regulatory institutions. She has successfully launched educational programmes with Cambridge Judge Business School over the past three years. Since 2019, Kate has been ranked in global lists such as TOP50 Fintech Global, TOP100 Women Thought Leaders, Influential Fintech Women UA and UK, TOP10 Regulatory Experts and Policy Makers UK, TOP3 UK Banker of the Year23 (Women award), and TOP100 Thought Leaders in Govtech by Thinkers360 (24). She is AI2030 (community) fellow. In 2024, Kate was elected as a delegate of United Nations Women UK. Kate sees her mission as spreading innovative knowledge at all levels, including professional financial and regulatory spheres, enhancing Ukrainian expertise through creating global collaborations, and improving the representation of women in the tech industry and the AI sector.
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1 个月Thank you for the great read! The use cases are fascinating.