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August 2023 | What's new this month
As the public becomes more aware of generative AI models, thanks in part to tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, there has been a surge of fear and concern regarding AI regulation and governance. In this article, we put that fear into context and offer actionable steps toward governance, drawing from historical lessons.
What’s your mindset when building an AI model? Your modeling mindset is the key to making ML applicable to the target problem and explainable to non-technical users and regulators. Following up on our podcast with Christoph Molnar, read the 3 things that we learned.
The rise of generative AI and large language models is undermining the grand web bargain. OpenAI recently admitted that it has one of these spiders crawling around the web. It's called GPTbot and it's being used to scrape and collect online content for AI model training. The next big model, GPT-5, will likely be trained on the data scooped up by this bot. This thoughtful article provides an interesting perspective on data being collected for use by today's generative AI tools.
“Regulation of AI is essential,” Sam Altman, chief executive of technology firm OpenAI, told US senators this May during a hearing on artificial intelligence (AI). Many tech experts and non-experts agree, and the clamor for legal guard rails around AI is rising. This year, the European Union is expected to pass its first broad AI laws after more than two years of debate. China already has AI regulations in place.
Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. This report from McKinsey takes a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
The new wave of generative AI systems is trained on vast amounts of data - text, images, video, and audio files, all scraped from the internet. Content can be created within seconds of a simple text prompt but, in many cases, the content was scraped without the consent of the creator.
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