AI Safety and Regulation: A Call to Action

As the new significant developments in the field of AI/ML have been happening since Nov 2022 with the release of ChatGPT, the other key point has started playing with how to manage AI safety, transparency, and bias in building the model, this also brings attention to the government regulator and even the head of states. How can we ensure that AI is safer for humans? Then another debate started about the ‘extinction of humans due to AI,’ and media outlets began purring text to the web pages and as news stories about this ‘threat’; an example of an article published by Time ‘An AI pause is humanity’s best bet for preventing Extinction’ to Forbes publishing ‘Will ChatGPT Lead To Extinction Or Elevation Of Humanity? A Chilling Answer’.

The US government has released an ‘Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, ‘ the salient features of which are also released as ‘FACT SHEE: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.‘

Continuing with the safety aspect of AI, the UK Government had its first AI Safety Summit on Nov 1-2, and a policy paper was released under the name: ‘The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023.‘

G7 leaders announced the Hiroshima AI Process – International Code of Conduct. It targets a series of responsible practices to identify and mitigate risks across the AI development and deployment lifecycle, including through evaluations, information sharing, governance approaches, security procedures, and transparency measures.

In the coming week, I will record a podcast for the Open Tech Talks podcast to cover this topic in detail.

News & Updates…

This week made history with the new AI features and products announced, fueling the technology revolution.

1. ​GPTs from OpenAI enable each of you to create your own custom ChatGPT specific to your use case, which you can eventually publish to the OpenAI GPTs store.
   • New GPT-4 Turbo model that is more capable, cheaper, and supports a 128K context window
   • New Assistants API, making it more straightforward for developers to build their own assistive AI apps
   • The platform includes new multimodal capabilities, including vision, image creation (DALL·E 3), and text-to-speech (TTS).
2. DataSets partnership with OpenAI. It has released a campaign to onboard partners for specific public or private data sets focusing on human society. If you want to become a partner, head over to here.
3. Generative AI in Google Search expands to more than 120 new countries and territories.

The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution

• Automate with documents using Oracle Document Understanding AI​
• ​Toxicity Detection with Amazon Comprehend
• The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI​
• Vertex AI Search adds new generative AI capabilities and enterprise-ready features
• ​NVIDIA Turbocharges Generative AI Training in MLPerf Benchmarks

Potential of AI

• AI Pin by Humane, is a voluntary item to buy and experience the AI.
• ​Habitat 3.0: supports both robots and humanoid avatars to enable human-robot collaboration on everyday tasks (e.g., tidying up the living room, preparing a recipe in the kitchen)

Things to Know

• Using Generative AI for Scientific Research, a guide to get answers.
• ​Generative AI use cases repository (work in progress)

The Opportunity…

Podcast:

• This week’s Open Tech Talks episode 112 on How CTOs Choose the Right Technology​

Courses to attend:

• ​A Crash Course in Generative AI from MIT AL ML Lab.
• ​AI Foundations Certification, a certification from Oracle Cloud
• ​Introduction to Generative AI, a course from Google Cloud

Events:

• Generative AI Expo, February 13-15, 2024 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida​
• ​KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON Europe, March 19-22, 2024

Tech and Tools…

• Tabby is an alternative to Copilot – a hosted coding assistant for you, try out​
• ​Hierarchical Autonomous Agent Swarm (HAAS) is a groundbreaking initiative that leverages OpenAI’s latest advancements in agent-based APIs to create a self-organizing and ethically governed ecosystem of AI agents.
• The collection of recipes to align language models with human and AI preferences is vital for chatbots and digital assistants.
• ​PrivateGPT is a production-ready AI project that allows you to ask questions about your documents using the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), it uses OpenAI APIs

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Until next week,

Kashif Manzoor

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