Summary Google Brain and Deepmind form Google Deepmind, with a new focus on developing large-scale multimodal models. Deepmind was founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. The company was acquired by Google in 2014, but has remained largely independent of Google. In March, The Information reported that Google’s in-house AI team, Google Brain, …
Summary Following Italy, German data protection authorities are now also dealing with ChatGPT. The federal state data protection commissioners have jointly initiated an administrative procedure. “If personal data is used, including as training data for AI, there must be a legal basis,” Dieter Kugelmann, head of the German AI task force, told Tagesspiegel. “We have …
Germany opens administrative proceedings against OpenAI Read More »
Summary AI applications are spreading rapidly and can have a major impact on our lives. How are policymakers dealing with it? From freelancers losing clients, graphic designers taking legal action, IT students questioning their future careers, to a Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment by ChatGPT, there is no question that AI has arrived in …
Researchers and Google CEO call for global regulation of AI Read More »
Summary Update, April 19, 2023: Bloomberg reports on an initial test of ChatGPT by Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The chatbot is designed to simplify documents and make them more accessible. Specifically, ChatGPT will help update online manuals for filling out applications for subsidies and public assistance. This is said to involve thousands …
Japanese government tests ChatGPT for website updates Read More »
Summary As ChatGPT begins to seep into our digital infrastructure, we should take its vulnerabilities seriously, warns developer Simon Willison. OpenAI’s ChatGPT plugins, Auto-GPT, Google’s Bard, or Microsoft’s Bing and Office 365 Co-Pilot: large language models are leaving the chatbox and starting to permeate our digital infrastructure. They are becoming AI assistants that write emails …
ChatGPT could quickly become the weak link in cybersecurity Read More »
Newsletter OpenAssistant is supposed to become a real open-source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now first models, training data, and code are available. The OpenAssistant project started in December, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT. The goal is to create an open-source AI assistant with the same capabilities. To that end, the team spent months collecting a …
OpenAssistant releases its open-source ChatGPT competitor Read More »
Summary In February, the 3D database Sketchfab introduced a NoAI tag for authors. But that was too late, as it now turns out. The latest variant of generative AI models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, or recently GPT-4 brought a rude awakening: AI models for images, text, and code have the potential …
Summary Proving human identity may become increasingly important in the age of artificial intelligence. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is betting on it with his startup Worldcoin. Founded in Berlin in 2019, crypto startup Worldcoin specializes in identifying people using biometric iris scans, in addition to establishing a global cryptocurrency. “The advancement of AI has …
Summary Italy has blocked ChatGPT due to GDPR concerns, OpenAI has followed suit without protest. Will other EU countries also block ChatGPT? According to a Reuters report, the data protection authorities of France and Ireland have contacted the Italian data protection authority. The latter had blocked ChatGPT last week due to privacy concerns, OpenAI has …
Generative AI tears a hole in existing copyright and privacy laws, and EU takes notice Read More »
Summary “The number of incidents concerning the misuse of AI is rapidly rising.” This is one of the key statements that can be read in the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023. This year’s 400-page work is considered one of the most trusted reports on the status quo of artificial intelligence, and is now in its …
