Frontier AI: Angel or Annihilator

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Researchers from the flagbearers of the AI industry including OpenAI, Google, Centre for the Governance of AI, Cohere and Microsoft have come together to explore the potential benefits of today’s foundation models which they term “frontier AI models” along with the severe risks they impose to public safety with their dangerous capabilities. The authors propose standard-setting processes for developers, registration and reporting requirements for visibility to regulators, and mechanisms to ensure compliance with safety standards.

Well, it is definitely very challenging to strike a balance between regulating AI for safety without stifling its progress.

We also cover further advancements in diverse applications of AI like predicting locations of minerals under the earth, speeding-up insurance claims processes and even delivering food aid to distressed zones. The ongoing legal battle over copyright infringement for training AI models adds to the anticipation.

Excited to know more? Let’s dive in!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Trending AI Jobs 💼

• Prompt of the Day 📜

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

• Frontier AI regulation: Researchers from prominent institutes in the industry including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google Deepmind, UCLA, have released a paper that explores:

  • the potential risks to public safety posed by today’s “frontier AI” models,

  • regulatory challenges they impose,

  • the role of policymakers, companies, developers and individuals in ensuring safe development and use of AI.

• Lost in the Middle: Language models perform best when relevant information is at the beginning or end of long contexts, but struggle to access details in the middle.

• AI for Unearthing: Scientists have developed a model that uses data from the Mineral Evolution Database to predict the locations of minerals, including rare earth elements.

• Textual Trespass: Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with two other authors, sue OpenAI and Meta alleging copyright infringement in training their AI models on their books.

• GPT4RoI (Region-of-Interest): Improves multimodal understanding by incorporating region-level vision-language alignment.

• Robots test their mettle at Robocup, world’s largest AI competition that showcases AI robots skilled in diverse fields including sports, medicine and emergency services.

• AI Outperforms Humans in Creativity Test: GPT-4 demonstrated top 1% performance in creative thinking, surpassing most humans in fluency and originality.

• AI for Insurance Claims: Thailand-based tech and insurance companies partner with Google Cloud to use Explainable AI for accurately identifying vehicle damage in insurance claims, improving processing time and cost efficiency.

• Food aid deliveries by AI robots: UN plans to deploy AI robotic vehicles for delivering food parcels to conflict and disaster zones by next year to protect humanitarian workers.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Pika Labs: Generate high-quality videos from simple text prompts.

• MetaGPT: Build GPT-powered micro apps without coding.

• Bark AI: Text-to-audio AI voice cloning app that generates realistic, multilingual speech, music, background noise, and sound effects.

• Call Pi: Speak to Inflection AI’s Pi, your personal AI, just like calling a friend.

• Unfake.png: Uses AI to convert fake.png images into true background-less .png files.

• Transformers.js v2.4.0: Caption videos perfectly with word-level timestamps, in just a few lines of code.

• BrainstormGPT: AI multi-agent platform that converts topics into meeting reports, user-defined meeting roles, AI-driven automated discussions.

• Adventure AI: Enables kids to get creative with cutting-edge AI, learn valuable skills, and potentially earn real money with their creations.

Trending AI Jobs 💼

• ByteDance: Research Scientist, RL | San Jose, CA (Apply Now)

• Mozilla AI: Machine Learning Engineer - LLMs | Remote (Apply Now)

• Walmart: Senior Data Scientist | Sunnyvale, CA (Apply Now)

Prompt of the Day 📜

AI as Therapist

Hot Takes 🔥

• Tech wars are actually mostly like the Western Front in 1916. Lots of skirmishes. Lots of casualties. Nonetheless, the trenches are really deep and not likely to move significantly any time soon. ~Bojan Tunguz

• Maturing is realizing that GPT4 is all you need. ~Alex Ker

Meme of the Day 🤡

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