How Irresponsible!

With great power comes great responsibility. This adage popularised by Spider-Man aptly fits the current rising AI technology. AI is scaling great heights, and naturally, the demand for ethics around it has also been increasing. Initially, big techs driving the technology, appeared to be sincere when talking about it, acknowledging the principles around AI – but it was all piffle.?

Last month, while announcing Bing Chat, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella made a lofty speech about responsible AI. A month later, the entire ‘Responsible AI’ team was fired from the company. Today, the ‘Responsible AI’ department is working without the team that used to manage AI’s ethical regulations for the company.?

Similarly, Elon Musk, who had been worried sick about AI threats when he started mass layoffs at Twitter in November last year, removed the Ethical AI ( Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability, or META) team. Musk also let go of the company’s entire Human Rights team responsible for investigating politicians and thought leaders for abusing the platform.

Meta’s attitude towards maintaining ethics in AI was at its worst. In September, last year, the tech giant disbanded its Responsible Innovation Team, which was formed to look into the ‘potential harms to society’ that Facebook’s products caused.?

The events that unfolded in the past few months highlight the big techs’ callousness towards ethical AI. It seems, after all, the promises were more sizzle than steak.

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Google’s Mission Failed

Google co-founder Larry Page had an AI vision for search. In a speech, in 2002, he observed, “Google will fulfil its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete”. The idea was to create a?“search engine so advanced that it could act like a cybernetic friend”. He envisioned in some years that the majority of search queries will be answered without even actually asking it.

Two decades later, the search engine is nowhere close to what its co-founders had envisioned. The company has completely deviated from its mission and bitten the generative AI bullet like its competitor Microsoft.

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The Brain Behind GPT-4?

The much anticipated GPT-4 is here, which is now doing some amazing jobs, much better than GPT-3.5. After releasing the transformer, Sam Altman mentioned one name — Jakub Pachocki — in a Twitter post, and acknowledged his contribution in the pre-training of the model.?

Pachocki has been with OpenAI since 2017 and has played key roles in developing all the GPT models. He has also played a key role in OpenAI’s development of a bot that learned to play?Dota 2, an online multiplayer battle arena game, by playing against itself over and over until it reached the pro level.

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AIM Awards Best Firms for Women in Tech

Analytics India Magazine's 'The Rising 2023' women-in-tech conference concluded last Friday. The event featured inspiring stories of women from different backgrounds over two days and concluded with the 'Best Firms for Women in Tech Awards' that recognized companies promoting diversity, career growth opportunities, coaching, mentorship, and closing the gender pay gap.?

The following companies received the award: Genpact, Lowe’s, Verizon India, Future Technologies, TheMathCompany, Wipro, Continental Automotive Components, Fractal Analytics, ABInBev, DBS Technology Services, Tata AIA Life Insurance, LTI Mindtree, and Sify.?The awards were presented by renowned journalist and author, Sagarika Ghose, on behalf of AIM.

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