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China widened its lead over the US in AI patent filings. That comes as Baidu and Alibaba are racing to monetize AI merchandise, underscoring the nation’s dedication to realize domination.
The Biden administration is predicted to signal its long-awaited AI govt order on Monday. Experiences present that the order would require superior AI fashions to endure assessments earlier than they can be utilized by federal workers.
OpenAI is launching a “Preparedness” group to mitigate the dangers of AI fashions as they turn into extra succesful over time. The ChatGPT maker believes that AI methods shall be smarter than people in the future.
College of Chicago researchers proposed “poison capsules” to assist content material creators shield their work from getting used to coach AI. The strategy manipulates coaching information to introduce surprising behaviors when used with out consent.
We’re getting the “generative AI is a job killer” narrative all improper
This week, employment web site Certainly revealed a report evaluating the roles most uncovered to (or impacted by) generative AI—and the way synthetic intelligence might change, moderately than kill, careers. The report collected over 15 million job postings to judge the talents that employers generally embrace—greater than 2,000 in complete—together with which might be carried out or assisted by ChatGPT.
Apparently, the report confused that race, gender, and different demographics aren’t what’s driving AI publicity. It comes all the way down to occupations, job titles, and places during which sure demographics have a tendency to pay attention.
Grete Suarez talked to Certainly economist Cory Stahle, who identified that this research might be telling us that, as employees, we have to discover ways to use AI as an essential work ability. He admitted that the variety of Certainly job postings asking for generative AI expertise this August had been small—0.05% is, certainly, very small—however that’s why the publicity numbers are so essential to notice. It’s concerning the lengthy recreation.
Pop quiz: The race to the startup prime
Which two startups are the one ones with the next valuation than OpenAI’s projected $80 billion?
A. Shein and Stripe
B. SpaceX and ByteDance
C. Canva and Databricks
D. Epic Video games and Revoult
Discover the reply right here, and a few ideas on whether or not OpenAI and different corporations are about to kick off the subsequent wave of public tech giants.
Microsoft’s people have so much to say
1 million: Customers paying for Microsoft’s chatbot Copilot
3,000: Organizations utilizing Copilot for enterprise, up 40% quarter over quarter
29%: 12 months over yr enhance of income from Microsoft’s cloud unit
$10 billion: How a lot Microsoft has invested in OpenAI
And so they simply stored on speaking! Learn every little thing that Microsoft stated about AI on its quarterly earnings name this week.
Different nice AI reads
📹 Can AI actually repair unhealthy video connectivity?
😔 Google Cloud’s huge guess on generative AI disappoints as enterprise clients pull again on spending
☁️ Amazon’s AI cloud dominance is getting chipped away by rivals
🤓 Chatbots would possibly disrupt math and pc science lessons. Some lecturers see upsides
⚠️ Watch out for the futurists, particularly within the age of AI
Ask an AI
Quartz’s Gabriela Riccardi had two issues this week: Adobe Photoshop and a dream—a dream to see how Photoshop’s AI device Firefly stacked up in opposition to an precise real-world state of affairs. Primarily based on stories of Amazon hiring 67% extra employees for this yr’s vacation rush as in comparison with final yr, she used Firefly to reconfigure a warehouse ground to account for an inflow of brown containers.
Issues went effectively in our faux warehouse at first, till they didn’t—and in a means Lucille Ball in all probability by no means imagined. Try Gabby’s full Firefly journey.
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