OpenAI’s DevDay releases. Global policymakers continue to act on AI. Meet-ups and events in the Bay Area, NYC, and London. Plus, how do we define digital life?

Policy

Americas

• U.S. AI Safety Institute established by U.S. Dept. of Commerce through NIST
• Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s achievements (more here, here, and here)

Europe

• British PM Sunak secures ‘landmark’ deal on AI testing (notably China did not agree)
• UK invests $273 million in AI supercomputer as it seeks to compete with U.S., China

Asia

• Why China’s involvement in the U.K. AI Safety Summit was so significant (more here)
• Korea to co-host mini virtual summit in 2024 with U.K. to build on AI Safety Summit
• India to host the Global Partnership on AI to discuss AI risks next month

Responsible AI

Product and alignment

• GPT-4 Turbo and new developer products released at OpenAI’s DevDay
• AI risks take center stage at AI Safety Summit
• AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’ (more here)

Health and science

• Oncology researchers raise ethics concerns posed by patient-facing AI
• SoulChat: Improving LLMs' empathy, listening, and comfort abilities through fine-tuning

Information and security

• AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
• The new era of social media looks as bad for privacy as the last one
• How AI-based cybersecurity strengthens business resilience

Finance

• AI bot performed insider trading and lied about its actions, study shows
• Meet the election betting startup suing the government
• How fintech fuels global payments

Resources and convenings

• Til Nov. 15: Global events around Cerebral Valley (various hosts)
• Nov. 8-9: The Responsible AI Leadership Summit (Credo.ai)
• Australian leaders on digital identity and responsible AI (IAPP)
• Nov. 16: Being Predictive: Financial AI and the Regulatory Future (Cato Institute)

Where AI is going

Humanity

• What is digital life? with OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
• Civil society groups call for regulation to address well-established harms (more here)
• How "digital twins" could help us predict the future with aerospace engineer Karen Wilcox

Capabilities

• ChatGPT-powered hierarchical comparisons for image classification
• Stability AI’s latest tool uses AI to generate 3D models
• Google DeepMind’s robotics head on general purpose robots, generative AI and more

Stack and ecosystem

• YaRN context window extension method
• Datadog reports on real-world container use
• Gradient CEO on an AI dev platform to customize open source LLMs

Climate and energy

• How AI helps combat climate change
• ICYMI: Caltech grad student on  "gyms" for AI sustainability

Releases, raises, more

• Releases: Yi-34B (01.AI, China), Grok (xAI), MistralLite (Mistral, France)
• Raises: Aleph Alpha ($500M), Next Insurance ($265M), Shield AI ($200M), Qi Tech ($200M)
• More: Flexport acquires Convoy, CGI and Google expand partnership

Extra resources

• The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI (Fei-Fei Li)
• When does a startup know it’s time to spread its wings? (TechCrunch)
• ICYMI: Getting feedback right on diverse teams (Harvard Business Review)