AI WEEKLY NEWS – 13-MAY to 19-MAY-2023:
Florian Prem
CDAO, CISM, Data / AI leader & practitioner with more than 20 years experience in Data, Analytics, Digital Transformation, AI and Change
? G7 calls for 'guardrails' on artificial intelligence: A group, including Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, are advocating for greater oversight of AI technology [19-May-2023] [1]
? AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns governments to act quickly to 'protect the public' due to the rapid roll-out of large language models [18-May-2023] [2]
? Sam Altman, OpenAI 's CEO and co-founder suggests three AI risk measures in in his appearance before US Congress: a new AI licensing government agency, safety standards for AI models, and third-party audits of AI products [17-May-2023][3]
? 英国电信集团 announced a plan to cut up to 42% of its workforce (currently 130‘000 including 30‘000 contractors) by 2028 / 2030, which could be as many as 55,000 positions. BT CEO Philip Jansen expects that AI can replace 10‘000 of these jobs. [18-May-2023] [4 - multiple links see below]
? An AI developed at TU Vienna can suggest appropriate treatment steps for cases of blood poisoning, surpassing human performance in this regard. The AI has been trained with extensive data from intensive care units. However, the researchers stressed the need for discussions about the legal aspects of such methods, including questions about liability and the potential consequences of ignoring the AI's advice [13-May-2023] [5]
? OpenAI, has launched their mobile #chatgpt app. The ChatGPT app is now available on Apple's App Store in the U.S., with plans to expand to Android phones [19-May-2023] [6]
? 谷歌 's new medical LLM (Med-PaLM 2) surpassed human doctors in a medical exam by achieving an impressive 86.5% score (60% is the typical pass level). It is also beats all prior medical AI models. Doctors consistently rated the AI answers higher than their own. Also this week, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals AI assistant-generated responses to patient inquiries were found to be superior to physicians' responses. And AI software is being trialed in Scottish hospitals to swiftly and accurately diagnose heart disease [14-May-2023] [15-May-2023][19-May-2023][7 multiple links see below]
? Meta has released its first two AI chips (Risk-V based) initially intended for AI inference with training to follow: the MSVP for video processing and the MTIA for predictive tasks using pre-trained AI models [19-May-2023] [8]
? Tesla has revealed a new version of its humanoid robot, the Tesla Bot, and Canadian firm Sanctuary AI has launched the 6th generation of their multi-purpose industrial robot, Phoenix, which can perform tasks with human-like efficiency [18-May-2023] [9 - multiple links see below]
? Stability AI has released StableStudio the open-source version of their Image generation toolset Dreamstudio. Stability AI has also introduced the Stable Animation SDK this week, which can generate and animate 3D models based on text [13-May-2023] [18-May-2023] [10 - multiple links see below]
? The EU is getting the EU AI Act ready introducing broad regulations for artificial intelligence, foundation models, the use of AI, etc [13-May-2023] [11]
? DragGan: Photo-realistic image manipulation via drag / drop will soon become possible - Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold (watch the videos on the link!) [19-May-2023] [12]
? An international group of scientists have developed a single machine learning model capable of predicting enzyme-substrate relationships across all proteins. This could revolutionise pharmaceutical research and substantially speed up the development of bio technology [18-May-2023] [13]
? 谷歌 , Midjourney , Shutterstock and others are starting to tag AI created images [15-May-2023] [14]
? OpenAI is getting an open-source AI model ready [16-May-2023] [15 - multiple links see below]
? ServiceNow and 英伟达 are creating a series of business focused custom generative AI models [17-May-2023] [17]
? DeepBrain AI has introduced an AI Interviewer capable of generating interview questions and conducting Q&A sessions, assisting in HR evaluations [16-May-2023] [18]
? NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is using AI to provide Earth with early warnings of solar storms [15-May-2023] [19]
? An AI system that enables robots to autonomously conduct scientific experiments - as many as 10,000 per day - is being developed at the University of Michigan [13-May-2023] [20]
Sources:
[3] https://fortune.com/2023/05/16/openai-ceo-sam-altman-congress-regulation-a-i-testimony-eye-on-a-i/
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[8] https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-announces-ai-training-inference-chip-project-2023-05-18/
[10] https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableStudio and for DreamStudio: https://dreamstudio.ai/