Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms
Financial Times :
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition
Their innovation is about running over peoples autonomy [embedded post] X: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “There's no question that we'll have machines assisting us that are smarte...
Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition cameras across the country
Mark Townsend / The Guardian :
South Korea-based Naver plans to offer localized versions of its LLM to governments worried about US data controls, to address political and cultural issues
South Korea's Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried about US data controls, addressing political and cultural issues
Localised versions to address political and cultural sensitivities as well as US data controls
Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act
OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week …
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence
Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. — • NEW DELHI, INDIA Tweets: @cengizyar , @hare_brain , and @karan_singhs Tweets: Cengiz / @cen...
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on OpenAI's ChatGPT, research into LLMs, companies using AI, Deep Blue and chess, practical uses for generative AI, and more
Richard Waters / Financial Times : Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @hare_brain Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : IBM CEO: “We do have a shortage of labour in the real wor...
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Mastodon: @karengregory@mastodon.scot , @pari...
A look at Elon Musk's options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end
Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data
Meta, TikTok and Twitter among groups to register for licences under which authorities can censor platforms
UK judge rules in favor of a woman who claimed her neighbor's Ring doorbell breached her privacy, potentially paving the way for similar lawsuits
Daily Mail :
A look at the origins of Clearview AI, which far-right activist Charles Johnson says he co-founded, as it is besieged by lawsuits and investigations
In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user's account …
Profile of lawyer and activist Cori Crider who is suing Facebook and outsourcing company CPL in Ireland's High Court on behalf of traumatized content moderators
innocent or guilty — could be mangled by systems beyond their control. And she learned how to beat billion$ opponents with a fraction of the financial firepower. She describes her ...
A look at efforts by developers, hobbyists, and students in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and other Asian countries to track and offer information about COVID-19
Bloomberg : Tweets: @hare_brain and @quicktake Tweets: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, was a civic hacker before joining the cabinet in 201...
NHSX will test an app for users to send a “yellow alert” if they self-diagnose with COVID-19 symptoms and a “red alert” if they test positive to recent contacts
The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity …
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.