OpenAI Drama outlined; Sam Altman at Microsoft

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📰 No-Noise News 📰

👺 Meta dissolved its Responsible AI team to focus on generative AI, reassigning members to AI product and infrastructure teams, despite past issues with AI moderation on its platforms.

🤖 Google DeepMind's team proposed a clearer understanding of AGI, suggesting five levels from basic chatbots to AI that could surpass human skills, even in tasks we cannot currently perform, like talking to animals or reading minds.

📜 France, Germany, and Italy have teamed up to draft a proposal for AI regulation within the EU that stresses on self-regulatory measures for AI developers and includes voluntary adherence to a code of conduct, a future potential for a European authority to enforce compliance, and no early sanctions for foundational model developers.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🎰 AI for Insurance Customer Lifetime Value Prediction & Segmentation - with examples and code

🏎️ F1 Statistics and Analysis using Tableau - the article explores F1 statistics and offers insights on the form of the best drivers and teams, crashes, engine trouble, dangerous Grand Prix circuits, and factors that constructors should focus on to make F1 cars more reliable.

🌐 Web section 🌐 

So here (but not in the email version) we're adding AI-related stories that may be slightly less attention-grabbing, but still could move the needle in specific sectors and fields.

👨🏾‍🎤 Actors' union SAG-AFTRA’s proposed contract includes AI provisions that some members feel aren’t protective enough, with skepticism regarding the enforcement of studios acting in good faith and the potential for reduced job availability.

🚘 Kyle Vogt has stepped down as CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle firm he co-founded. The resignation comes after Cruise faced regulatory issues due to a self-driving car accident. General Motors is now steering Cruise to prioritize safety and regain public trust, with executive shifts intended to support these goals.

💲AstraZeneca has launched a health-tech business called Evinova to provide digital health solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. Evinova will focus on bringing established technology solutions to market, reducing the time and cost of developing new medicines, and enhancing the patient experience.

⚗️ SandboxAQ partners with NVIDIA to use AI and quantum simulations to innovate in drug discovery, energy, and material sciences. This collaboration is set to revolutionize several industries and tackle major global challenges.

📃 TensorFlow 2.15 has arrived, offering Linux users a straightforward installation option for NVIDIA CUDA libraries and Windows users enhanced CPU performance through oneDNN optimizations. It also includes complete availability of tf.function types, and performance upgrades with the adoption of Clang 17.0.1 and NVIDIA CUDA 12.2, which are particularly beneficial for the latest NVIDIA GPUs.

🎙️ Toyota Research Institute's top minds, Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake, discuss the role of generative AI in shaping the future of robotics, asserting its potential to drastically improve how robots understand and interact with the world.

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