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👨‍💼 OpenAI CEO agrees that AI needs to be regulated

Sam Altman testified in the US Senate yesterday. Here’s a quick recap:

Will AI take our jobs?

NO: "I believe there will be far more jobs on the other side [of the new Industrial Revolution] and the jobs of today will get better" Sam said.

YES: Gary Marcus, an AI expert also testifying, disagreed. Gary believes this technological revolution is going to be different and it will replace a lot of jobs once we get to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). However, he's unsure if this will happen in 10 or 100 years.

Misinformation

It's a problem. Sam admitted that one of his greatest concerns is the general ability of large language models to influence people and provide one-on-one interactive disinformation.

"People need to know if they are talking to an AI, or if the content they are looking at might have been generated" he argued, in favor of regulation.

Gary pointed out the research we discussed in this newsletter yesterday about the potential of biased LLMs to change people's views. To ensure these models are impartial, transparency is needed.

Then he addressed the elephant in the room: "One of the things that I'm most concerned about with GPT-4 is that we don't know what it's trained on. I guess Sam knows, but the rest of us do not."

What about copyright?

Sam agreed that content creators and content owners need to benefit from the technology trained on their work, but he admitted that he just doesn't yet know how.

Regulation?

According to Gary, the US needs to create an AI agency, preferably a global AI agency, that can regulate the industry.

Sam suggested the agency hand out licenses for AI tech "above a certain scale of capabilities, and could revoke that license to ensure compliance with safety standards."

Before an AI system is released to the public, there should be independent audits, but this shouldn't apply to smaller players whose models are much less advanced than OpenAI's.

GENERATIVE AI

🤖 Google plans to fight back AI generated fakes

AI is already rewriting art history.Two weeks ago, if you googled Edward Hopper, one of the most renowned American painters in history, the first result was a painting of a lone woman looking out a window.

It boasted all the hallmarks of a Hopper piece, seamlessly blending in with the rest of his works. But it was not a Hopper; it was an image generated by AI that somehow made its way to the top of the search results.

Google has since removed it from the top results, but this is a clear sign that AI-generated content is taking an increasing share of the internet.

Fake pictures of historical events have been popping up all over the generative AI communities.

To help distinguish real from generated, Google will start labeling images.

For every image on Google, there will be an “About this image” feature that lets you find out when the image was first indexed by Google, where the image may have first appeared, and where else the image has been seen online.

As Google rolls out its own generative tool, it plans to add a “markup” or metadata to each file and will also collaborate with Midjourney and Shutterstock to do the same.

This will hopefully result in a better understanding of what is AI-generated and what is real on the internet.

Ai Art of the day 🎨

Serial Killers in the style of Pixar by redditor u/DTVStuff

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