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Japan is becoming cautious about AI overreliance
Ts Yotov
October 23, 2023
No fluffing - in today’s edition (23 Oct):
📰 Quick News - Japan is becoming cautious about AI overreliance while Apple has 'a lot of anxiety' about ChatGPT and generative AI
📚 Nerd section - New Google’s PaLI-3, and more
📰 Quick News 📰
🛡️ Early access to Microsoft's Security Copilot has been announced. This signifies a major development in the field of user cybersecurity, offering enhanced data protection in the face of digital threats.
🤖 Japan's government panel is formulating AI guidelines to tackle its overuse and to address biased data problems. The guidelines put forth 10 rules for AI companies to uphold fairness, transparency, and human rights by ensuring data accuracy and limiting service use.
🎙️ An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; he discusses his career journey, Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, and his leadership style. Nadella also reflects on the cultural changes he has implemented at Microsoft and the success of the company under his leadership.
🍐 Apple was caught off guard by swift advances in AI-like OpenAI's ChatGPT, this spiking anxiety within the organisation, and sparking efforts to develop competitive features. Key leaders are spearheading the company's AI charge with a budget of $1 billion, aiming to effectively integrate AI into their products and services, including a potential smarter Siri and improved customer service tools.
💸 Inside Sequoia Capital’s Growing AI Portfolio: from just 16% a year ago, AI startups now make up nearly 60% of Sequoia Capital's new investments. These companies are expected to use AI as an accelerator, not as the core of their business. This shift reflects the increasing role that AI is playing in the evolution of new businesses across different sectors.
👮🏽 In the UK, artificial intelligence is increasingly used in government decision-making ranging from welfare to immigration. Despite potential benefits in efficiency, there's growing concern that this use of AI, which often relies on opaque algorithms, could lead to systematic biases and discrimination.
📚 Nerd section 📚
🖥️ Google has introduced PaLI-3, an advanced Artificial Intelligence system that merges natural language understanding with image recognition. Despite being smaller, it outperforms models 10 times larger, creating opportunities in fields like computer vision, content generation, and human-computer interaction.
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