The Republicans want a decadelong ban on states regulating artificial intelligence
A judge in California has imposed sanctions on two law firms for out-sourcing their research and writing to artificial intelligence. Judge Michael Wilner said, “I was intrigued by the authorities cited…but didn’t find them.” He added, “There was a chance it would lead to the scarier outcome of including those bogus materials in a judicial order.”
A Q andA about Open Artificial Intelligence and partnering with the government
OpenAI CEO Chris LeHane in a recent interview with NPR said the US and China are “in a race” to see who leads in artificial intelligence. “We’re bringing our leading-edge innovation and artificial intelligence technology into the US National Labs. But at the end of the day, what it’s really bringing is our leading-edge tech, the innovation that we’re building,” he added.
Biden issued an executive order in the eleventh hour trying to bolster the U.S. cybersecurity
US President Joe Biden has signed a 40-page executive order seeking to improve the country’s cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection. The order aims to boost the US government’s use of artificial intelligence to detect and respond to attacks, among other things. It aims to make it easier for the federal government to slap sanctions on ransomware groups who target critical infrastructure.
Trump is flattered by the Nvidia reply to Biden’s new chip restrictions
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced a new rule that would allow companies in countries that are not subject to arms control to get up to 1,700 of the latest artificial intelligence chips. They will be allowed to apply for a special license to acquire more chips, to build large-scale datacenters using US technology, or to gain access to the most powerful closed model “weights”.
AlphaFold developers won the chemistry prize
University College London’s Christine Orengo, who leads the AlphaFold team that won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Monday, has said it’s a major revolution. “It’s a complement…to other approaches tomapping and tweaking the structure of viral proteins for use in vaccines,” she added. Founded by Orengo and three others, AlphaFold makes three-dimensional protein structures using artificial intelligence.
Citizen science can be used for big-data projects
A team of scientists from the University of New South Wales has discovered 4,581 new neuron types in the brains of fruit flies, a discovery that could lead to new directions in research. The team used a computer model to train the artificial intelligence model to create a wiring diagram of millions of sphinxes and thousands of neurons.
Rage against machine learning that is being driven by profit
A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University has found that keeping publicly funded independent academic researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) progress is crucial for the safe development of the technology. The research also found that companies want more people to be able to work with their AI models so they’re moving towards open access.
A guide to the nature index
The Supplement to Nature Index shows the number of institutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) using natural language models and the increase in authors. It shows that the top institutions in AI are shown in tables based on the change in output from the year before to the year after. More institution tables are measured by the total number of publications.
Section 230 immunity could be carved out for intimate Artificial Intelligence deepfakes
Microsoft has urged US lawmakers to update laws on child sexual exploitation, abuse and non-consensual intimate imagery to include ‘deep fake fraud’ generated due to the misuse of Artificial Intelligence. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the private sector has a responsibility to prevent misuse of artificial intelligence. Earlier, Microsoft had said that there are more than 50,000 cases of deep fake fraud in US.
What is Artificial intelligence, really?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) watchdogs, government regulators are trying to keep natural looking bots from misrepresenting themselves and saying it was a human, WIRED reporter Paresh Dave said. “In human language, I can say ‘what’ or ‘whaaaat!?’,” said machine-learning researcher Pratyusha Sharma. She further said artificial intelligence analysis helps to understand sperm whales’ alphabet and chemical composition of salt stains.