No Fakes Act - a bipartisan bill is on the table

No fluffing - in today’s edition (13 Oct):

📰 Quick News - No Fakes Act - a bipartisan bill is on the table and China is proposing AI safety rules

📚 Nerd section - Setting an AutoGen lead AI-led studio

📰 Quick News 📰

🎞️ The No Fakes Act is a bipartisan bill in the pipeline aiming to enact federal laws to defend performers against unauthorized AI reproductions of their forms and voices. If passed, it would standardize varying state rules, ban unauthorized digital reproductions and allow individuals or entities to take civil action.

🗃️ China's collaborative effort to tighten AI data security checks underscores the importance of data integrity in model training. The proposal includes extensive security assessments and a blacklist mechanism, setting a precise threshold for content that might be harmful or unlawful.

🧬 The academic teams at Harvard and Oxford have developed an AI tool called EVEscape designed to predict virus mutations, integrating evolutionary models and comprehensive virus details, facilitating earlier vaccine development for future virus strains.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🤖 Ever dreamed of an AI-led studio working tirelessly for you? Microsoft's AutoGen can make it a reality. An open-source framework, it turns building multi-agent conversational systems into a breeze, opening new possibilities for tailored AI assistants.

🧠 Meta AI has developed a machine learning model that can decode speech from non-invasive brain recordings, achieving up to 80% accuracy in best-performing participants. This could radically change language decoding methods in neuroscience and healthcare.

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