A week in Generative AI: Transparency, Newsreaders & Science
A week in Generative AI: Transparency, Newsreaders & Science
News for the week ending 22nd October 2023
Fittingly this week there is lots of ethical AI news to share ahead of next week’s Global AI safety summit in the UK. I highly recommend the State of AI Report 2023 and Time’s article on The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once in the long reads section.
I’ve also included a new section on interesting use cases of generative AI in the real world - if you see any good ones you think I should include please let me know in the comments below!
The Foundation Model Transparency Index
This is some really interesting research comparing the transparency of foundational models across 13 areas and 100 different transparency indicators.
‘Here is the news. You can’t stop us’: AI anchor Zae-In grants us an interview
The future of newsreaders? It wouldn’t surprise me if most TV newsreaders are generative AI in 5 years time.
Evaluating social and ethical risks from generative AI
A very timely post form DeepMind ahead of the UK Governments’ global AI safety summit next week. Some good, if obvious, suggestions in here but good to see them.
Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss
It’s no surprise to see some skepticism ahead of next week’s global AI safety summit, but I really hope we do see some progress and meaningful actions coming out of it.
Scientists begin building AI for scientific discovery using tech behind ChatGPT
Exponential acceleration in general scientific discoveries? If this fulfil’s no its potential, we’ll be stepping into a whole new level of disruption, change and progress.
This week’s AI Ethics news
AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type
OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector
Wall Street Watchdog Says AI Will Cause 'Unavoidable' Economic Collapse
ChatGPT may be better than a GP at following depression guidelines
How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
DALL-E 3's system prompt reveals OpenAI's rules for AI image generation
This week’s long reads
Time - The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
The Bulletin - We need a humanity defence organisation
The Guardian - Will Hawk-Eye spark an NBA data revolution?
Stratechery - China Chips and Moore’s Law
Interesting Use Cases
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson