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Week 23: What’s Happening in AI
AI’s implications for 2024 elections, new producers entering the chip-making game, and AI’s potential to address human loneliness.
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February 2, 2024
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The FTC is investigating large tech companies’ involvement in AI startups.
What's Happening
- The FTC has opened an inquiry to “shed light on whether investments and partnerships pursued by dominant companies risk distorting innovation and undermining fair competition” said Lina Khan.
- Focus: Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI, and Google and Amazon’s investments in Anthropic
Why This is Important
- Previously, regulators were more focused on tech giant’s acquisitions of smaller companies - this focuses on their investments in other companies
- This highlights two trends:
Policy
Americas
Federal
- Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects
- Commerce Department starts requiring AI model operators to report key security data
- US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools
- The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
- Social Media CEOs testify on responsibility and child safety. More here and here.
States
- Washington governor signs AI order plotting yearlong policy path
- California Lawmakers Push for Watermarks on AI-Made Photo, Video
Elections
- Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden
- AI turbocharges campaign fundraising
- Could Techno-Optimism Sway the Election?
Europe
- ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
- Germany to approve EU's planned AI act
Asia
- China approves over 40 AI models for public use in past six months
- Biden’s new firewall to halt China’s AI development via US cloud firms
- South Korea invests big in becoming a global chip leader
AI Development + Deployment
Chips
- Nvidia’s Big Tech Rivals Put Their Own A.I. Chips on the Table
- New raises: Rebellions raises $124M, Semron raises $7.9M for AI chips with 3D packaging
- More: OpenAI’s discussion with congress, Musk Plans to Buy AMD Chips
Capacity
- Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
- Meta releases ‘Code Llama 70B’, an open-source behemoth to rival private AI development
Copyright
- The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.
- Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
Platform Governance
- Explicit Deepfake Images of Taylor Swift Elude Safeguards and Swamp Social Media
- OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media on kids' safety
Intentional development
- Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay
- Why AI needs to learn new languages
- Resource: https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
Where AI is going
Humanity
Policy
Economy
- As layoffs deepen, AI’s role in the cuts is murky – but it definitely has one
- How AI could help curb global labor shortages
- Opinion: The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
Startups
- This Chinese Startup Is Winning the Open Source AI Race
- Refact aims to make code-generating AI more appealing to enterprises
- Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different
- Essential AI chooses Google's Cloud
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