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House launching bipartisan AI task force
The House announced Tuesday it will launch a bipartisan task force centered on AI. The mission of the task force is to ensure the United States is leading the world in AI innovation, but it also considers the “guardrails that may be appropriate” as the widely popular emerging technology continues to raise potential security concerns.
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Amazon trains 980M parameter LLM with ’emergent abilities’
The researchers trained models of various sizes on up to 100,000 hours of public domain speech data to see if they would observe the same performance leaps that occur in natural language processing models once they grow past a certain scale.
Google’s new AI hub in Paris proves that Google feels insecure about AI
This morning, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai inaugurated a new hub in Paris dedicated to AI.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI valued at $80bn after company completes deal
Company to sell existing shares in ‘tender offer’ led by venture firm Thrive Capital, in similar deal as early last year
Applied use cases
AI is making critical health care decisions.
Health care regulators say they need more people and more power to monitor the new tech.
ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users
On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI's AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of the AI assistant "having a stroke," "going insane," "rambling," and "losing it."
Why artificial general intelligence lies beyond deep learning
Sam Altman’s recent employment saga and speculation about OpenAI’s groundbreaking Q* model have renewed public interest in the possibilities and risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Ethics
China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology
China’s tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing’s regulations and a sagging economy aren’t helping.
What the EU’s tough AI law means for research and ChatGPT
The EU AI Act is the world’s first major legislation on artificial intelligence and strictly regulates general-purpose models.
Fairness in machine learning: Regulation or standards?
Before elaborating further on existing regulations, we will briefly summarize what ML fairness is and illustrate why it is a complex problem.
Research
A survey on deep reinforcement learning approaches for traffic signal control
The focus of this paper lies in analyzing the most recent papers from the past five years, with the aim to provide a comprehensive and multi-dimensional review of the evolution of DRL in TSC.
rlty2rlty: Transitioning Between Realities with Generative AI
We present a system for visually transitioning a mixed reality (MR) user between two arbitrary realities (e.g., between two virtual worlds or between the real environment and a virtual world).
Generative AI and Generative Conversations: Contrasting Futures for Organizational Change?
To what extent are “generative AI” (as a machine-based form of decision-making) and “generative dialogue” (as a human-based form of decision-making) complimentary or competing? What takes precedence in generative change processes?
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