A week in Generative AI: Bletchley, AGI & Diagnoses
A week in Generative AI: Bletchley, AGI & Diagnoses
News for the week ending 5th November 2023
This week has been the week of government’s chiming in on AI and it’s future with President Biden’s Executive Order at the beginning of the week and the UK’s AI Safety Summit at the end of the week. Between that there’s been lots of interesting news and some great long reads from Stratechery and Technology Review.
The Bletchley Declaration
With the dust settling post the UK AI Safety Summit I have to say I’m impressed and encouraged by the outputs in the form of the Bletchley Declaration. Good to see equal prominence given to more immediate, pressing concerns in AI and amazing to see the US and China on the same page.
Google AI Chief Says There’s a 50% Chance We’ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years
This chimes with many other experts predicting we’ll see AGI this decade. I agree that progress is and will continue to be rapid, but if we’re honest with ourselves we still don’t really have a definition for what AGI is, so very difficult to predict reaching what I expect will be a continually moving target.
OpenAI’s product strategy for the next 2 years
Lots of obvious things in here, but when you add it all together and imagine ChatGPT actually being able to do all of these things, that’s a very exiting prospect!
Say what: AI can diagnose type 2 diabetes in 10 seconds from your voice
This is mind blowing 🤯. I still don’t really understand it, but amazing to think that health issues can be diagnosed just based on how people speak!
AI better than biopsy at assessing some cancers, study finds
More evidence showing how capable AI is becoming at helping health professionals with the vital task of diagnosis. It would be amazing if we could actually move away from biopsies as well.
ChatGPT app revenue shows no signs of slowing, but some other AI apps top it
Nearly 40m active monthly users of ChatGPT on mobile. That’s impressive and represents about 20% of desktop users! And these stats won’t take into account any growth off the back of the mainstream re-release of web browsing, the impressive voice capabilities we’ve seen and DALL-E 3.
AI Ethics News
Biden's AI EO hailed as broad, but not deep without legislation to match
Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit appears slick – but look closer and alarm bells start ringing
Meta’s Yann LeCun joins 70 others in calling for more openness in AI development
Artists Suing Stability AI Forced to Go Back to The Drawing Board on Copyright Claims
Long Reads
TechCrunch - Existential risk? Regulatory capture? AI for one and all? A look at what's going on with AI in the UK
Stratechery - Attenuating Innovation (AI)
Technology Review - Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI
The Guardian - How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work
Ars Technica - People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours
Fast Company - Philosophy is the secret to thriving in the age of AI
404 Media - AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere
Interesting Features & Use Cases
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson