{"id":1901,"date":"2023-05-10T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2024-10-12T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T17:38:21","slug":"lords-of-ai-tech-giants-and-an-international-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2023\/05\/10\/lords-of-ai-tech-giants-and-an-international-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Lords of AI \u2013 Tech giants and an International Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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UPDATE May 17, 2023: Proper funding for a new federal AI agency is needed to match the tech industry\u2019s speed and power. The name for the prospective agency and a map of its possible functions are yet to be determined. But does having one agency regulate all AI make sense? \u2013 vs. adding AI oversight to the existing federal regulatory framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Wired > “Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator<\/a>” by Khari Johnson (May 17, 2023) \u2013 At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lords of AI \u2026 an International Agency for AI?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View > “Gary Marcus used to call AI stupid \u2013 now he calls it dangerous<\/a>” (May 5, 2023) \u2013 There’s a difference between power and intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus [1], always loquacious, has an answer: “Yes, I’ve said for years that [LLMs] are actually pretty dumb, and I still believe that. But there’s a difference between power and intelligence. And we are suddenly giving them a lot of power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus has an idea for who might do the enforcing. He has lately been insistent that the world needs, immediately, “a global, neutral, nonprofit International Agency for AI,” \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The success of large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and a host of others has been so spectacular that it’s literally scary. This week President Biden summoned the lords of AI to figure out what to do about it. Even some of the people building models, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, recommend some form of regulation. And the discussion is a global one; Italy even banned OpenAI’s bot for a while.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Toward a regulatory framework for AI \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Technology 202 > “Biden\u2019s enforcers see antitrust threats in AI rush” by Cristiano Lima with research by David DiMolfetta (May 9, 2023) \u2013 Will a small group of large tech companies \u2013 with power and resources that rival nation-states \u2013 corner the AI market?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key officials including Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter and Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan have issued several warnings against potential anti-competitive abuses by companies as they look to grow their AI businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan issued a more pointed warning last week, writing in an op-ed in the New York Times that, \u201cThe expanding adoption of A.I. risks further locking in the market dominance of large incumbent technology firms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan recently touted the agency\u2019s creation of an Office of Technology as crucial toward their AI work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 CNET > “Google’s Bard Chatbot Opens to the Public<\/a>” by Stephen Shankland [2] (May 10, 2023) \u2013 Google is trying to balance AI progress with caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google is ready to open the Bard floodgates, at least to English speakers around the world. After two months of testing, access to the AI-powered chatbot no longer is gated by a waitlist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Wired > “How ChatGPT and Other LLMs Work \u2013 and Where They Could Go Next<\/a>” by David Nield (Apr 30, 2023) \u2013 Large language models like AI chatbots seem to be everywhere. If you understand them better, you can use them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1] Gary Marcus<\/em>: one of the “go-to talking heads on this breakout topic” \u2026 “53-year-old entrepreneur and NYU professor emeritus who now lives in Vancouver” \u2026 TED talk on constraining AI\u2026 Substack “The Road to A.I. We Can Trust” \u2026 podcast Humans vs. Machines. For his 23 years at NYU, he was in psychology, not computer science. \u2026 cofounded an AI company called Geometric Intelligence (sold to Uber in 2016) \u2026 cofounded a robotics firm, Robust AI, which he left in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History: deep learning neural networks vs. old-school AI, based on reasoning and logic \u2026 with some references to Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of deep learning, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2] Stephen Shankland<\/em> has been a reporter at CNET since 1998 \u2026 covering the technology industry for 24 years and was a science writer for five years before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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