What's Happening in AI

EU Digital Services Act, CodeLlama and GPT-4 compete, brain-to-voice AI, Nvidia’s record earnings, and more. First, this week’s big story: Big Tech’s to-do list under new EU content rules and what’s next.

• Why this matters: The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) sets rules for the responsibilities of digital service providers. ‘Micro and small companies’ will have obligations proportionate to size and ability. (more here)
• What’s next: Full enforcement by February 17, 2024, with an August 25 start date for ‘very large’ companies
• Consider: “[Fast growing companies] would benefit from a targeted exemption from a set of obligations during a transitional 12-month period” (more here)
• Comments: Complying with the DSA (Google) and more from TikTok, Snap, and Meta

Policy

Americas

• Schumer to host AI forum with CEOs including Musk and Zuckerberg
• SEC reforms private fund rules and brings its first NFT enforcement action
• Corporate AI legal policies race to keep up (ex. Salesforce, Meta, Databricks)
• NIST to standardize encryption algorithms that can resist attack by quantum computers

Europe

• EU’s AI Act raises questions around who will watch the watchers
• Study: Majority of AI applications fall short on GDPR

Asia

• India’s PM Modi flags concerns over bias in AI; calls for ethical use
• ICYMI: China to limit use of generative AI in online healthcare activities

Responsible AI

Health and science

• How AI gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
• AI-powered biological software with Job Uszkoreit, Inceptive's Co-Founder
• ChatGPT shows ‘impressive’ accuracy in clinical decision making
• ICYMI: Scientific Advisory Board for independent advice announced by UN Secretary-General

Identity and security

• The latest AI scams look and sound just like you
• Deepfake detection tools must work with dark skin tones, experts warn
• Google and Microsoft are supercharging AI deepfake porn
• US hacks QakBot, quietly removes botnet infections

Workforce

• WhatsApp was able to support 50 billion messages a day with only 32 engineers
• Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’
• ICYMI: The Indian startup making AI fairer for workers (more here)

Resources

• Securing AI memo (Greylock)
• Playbook for Universal Design (DTU Skylab)
• AI Nutrition Facts 'Create Your Own Label' (Twilio)
• Basics on board oversight of AI risks (Volkov Law Group)
• 3 trillion token open dataset for pretraining, Dolma (Allen Institute for AI)‍
• Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B

Compute and access

• Nvidia's knockout earnings give tech a giddy whiff of 1995 (more here)
• Tesla's $300M AI cluster is going live
• Preparing for commercial chiplets
• Opinion: We must pass the Create AI Act (Stanford HAI)

Information and society

• Google’s SynthID, a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out
• Amazon, NYT, more are increasingly blocking OpenAI's GPTBot (more here)
• Despite cheating fears, schools repeal ChatGPT bans
• Opinion: ISPs should not police online speech — no matter how awful (EFF)

Climate and efficiency

• AI, the internet’s next great power suck
• IBM Research’s newest prototype chips use drastically less power
• Intro: Liquid neural networks and reduced resource intensiveness

Releases and raises

• Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise
• Arthur unveils Bench, an open-source AI model evaluator
• Korea’s internet giant Naver unveils generative AI services
• New tools and features: Google Workspace, Twilio, DoorDash
• Raises: Arm's upcoming IPO, Hugging Face ($235M), Modular ($100M), EvolutionaryScale ($40M, biotech), Irreverent Labs (undisclosed), Ideogram ($16.5M seed)