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GAO-23-106811, Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving at a rapid pace and the federal government cannot afford to be reactive to its complexities, risks, and societal consequences. Federal guidance has focused on ensuring AI is responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable. Third-party assessments and audits …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 20, 2023. Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion. Jonas Schuett, Noemi Dreksler, Markus Anderljung, David McCaffary, Lennart Heim, Emma Bluemke, Ben Garfinkel, 11 May 2023 arXiv “A number of leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, have the stated goal of building artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI …
Larry Ferlazzo: “I’ve begun posting my mid-year “Best” lists, and this is a new one – the first time I’ve shared a “Best” list specifically on AI tools. As you probably know, I’ve been publishing a weekly list of free AI tools for education since January. You can see all my “Best” lists related to …
The Verge: “Google Chrome will now check for typos in your URLs and display suggested websites based on what it thinks you meant. The company announced the change as part of a larger accessibility update and says the feature will come to desktop first before arriving on mobile in the “coming months.”…Additionally, Google revealed a …
The BrainyActs – “Tool you can Use: While more and more of us are using AI, more of us are also thinking about how to tell the difference between AI and human-generated output. Here are 10 tools you can use to learn what has been generated with AI and what hasn’t.” AI Text Classifier Content …
The Verge: “No, it’s not over yet: the ability of AI tools to manipulate images continues to grow. The latest example is only a research paper for now, but a very impressive one, letting users simply drag elements of a picture to change their appearance. This doesn’t sound too exciting on the face of it, …
6 major risks of using ChatGPT, according to a new study – Beyond the Safeguards: Exploring the Security Risks of ChatGPT. Erik DernerA and Kristina Batisti, 13 May 2023. arXiv:2305.08005 “The increasing popularity of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has led to growing concerns about their safety, security risks, and ethical implications. This …
“On April 26, Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, delivered the final of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future of AI, co-hosted by CITRIS Research Exchange and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group (BAIR). Samuelson’s talk explores a particularly controversial topic in the legal community: whether the …
Real Artificial – From Printing Press to Generative AI: “Since the dawn of history, humans have been reluctant to embrace new inventions, from the printing press to modern generative AI innovations. But eventually, they come around. In this post, we’ll explore some of the greatest inventions of all time that have, one by one, reshaped the …
Microsoft researchers published a study arguing that OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI system was progressing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). The 155-page paper, entitled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence,” argues that GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of large language models (LLMs) “that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models.” Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: …
The Atlantic [read free] There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing: “One-hundred percent AI. That’s what the software concluded about a student’s paper. One of the professors in the academic program I direct had come across this finding and asked me what to do with it. Then another one saw the same …
