AI News Weekly – Issue #379: UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests – Apr 4th 2024


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UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests

The UK and US have signed a landmark agreement to collaborate on developing rigorous testing for advanced AI systems, representing a major step forward in ensuring their safe deployments.

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In The News

Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

Artifact, the app, will go away once the acquisition is complete. But Artifact’s underlying tech for categorizing, curating, and personalizing content will soon start to show up on Yahoo.

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Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling

A Washington state judge overseeing a triple murder case barred the use of video enhanced by AI as evidence in a ruling that experts said may be the first-of-its-kind in a United States criminal court.

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Does technology help or hurt employment?

Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.

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Applied use cases

LLMs could ‘revolutionise the finance sector within two years’

Large Language Models have the potential to improve efficiency and safety in the finance sector by detecting fraud, generating financial insights and automating customer service.

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‘I’m the left turn guy’: AI comes to the doctor’s office, Pennsylvania hospitals

AI will be introduced at hospitals in Pennsylvania to diminish the workload of doctors, nurses and others, and to take on some far less mundane tasks including monitoring high-risk patients.

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How AI Will First Find Its Way Into Mental Health

Although there are many challenges when relying on an artificial bot to interact with patients, there are still areas where AI can augment decision-making.

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Ethics

How artificial intelligence reinforces gender bias

A special report focusing on how AI has been automatically set up to reinforce gender discrimination along with the rise of deepfakes.

france24.com

Artificial Intelligence: An engagement guide

An increasing number of companies are using AI to transform existing business models or create new ones, generate greater efficiencies, and enhance strategic decision-making, all of which are critical for their competitiveness.

harvard.edu

A pink slime site used AI to rewrite our AI ethics article

Hours after Poynter released its AI ethics guide, a near-identical article appeared on a sketchy website. It was likely written by artificial intelligence.

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Robotics

'Demonstrating telepathy': Neuralink's first brain chip patient plays chess with his mind

Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink on Wednesday live-streamed its first patient playing an online chess game using the company’s chip implant to move the mouse.

indiatimes.com

Report: Apple Considering Robots as New Opportunity for Growth

The company is exploring projects in the personal robotics market as it looks for new opportunities for growth after ending its electric vehicle project.

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Saudi Arabia's first humanoid robot knows not to talk about sex or politics, its creator says

Sara, who wears a traditional Saudi abaya, a modest robe-like dress, is the first humanoid robot designed and manufactured in Saudi Arabia and possibly in the Middle East.

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Research

Neural Networks: Everything you need to know

What is a neural network? How do neural networks work? Types of neural networks, and more.

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How to train AI when you don't have enough data

Artificial intelligence excels at sorting through information and detecting patterns or trends. But these machine learning algorithms need to be trained with large amounts of data first.

techxplore.com

Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

Given mainstream assumptions in the science of consciousness, there are significant obstacles to consciousness in current models: for example, their lack of recurrent processing, a global workspace, and unified agency. At the same time, it is quite possible that these obstacles will be overcome…

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