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The 5 Biggest AI Stories This Week
Plus AI helps discover antibiotic for dangerous superbug
Nathaniel Whittemore
May 28, 2023
The AI Breakdown Weekend Five - Sunday May 28, 2023
Happy Memorial Day Weekend and official beginning of summer to US readers! Continuing our “First Five” experiments with a weekend edition. Poll below for feedback on the new format.
The 5 Biggest AI Stories This Week
5. AI Regulation and Safety
The crescendo in AI regulatory discussions continues. This week, Microsoft joined the call for a dedicated US AI agency with licensing power while OpenAI got in hot water with EU authorities after saying they might have to leave if the AI Act passed. Google DeepMind also put forward research called “An early warning system for novel AI risks.”
With more powerful AI systems comes more responsibility to identify novel capabilities in models. 🔍
Our new research looks at evaluating future 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 risks, which may cause harm through misuse or misalignment.
Here’s a snapshot of the work. 🧵 dpmd.ai/novel-ai-risks
— Google DeepMind (@DeepMind)
2:29 PM • May 25, 2023
4. AI Discovers Antibiotic for Superbug
AI help in medical research is one of the upsides of advanced AI that critics of calls for pauses and the like often point to. Researchers recently used AI to explore chemical compounds that could target a drug resistant superbug, testing thousands of potential options in a matter of hours.
AI has helped discover a new superbug-killing antibiotic.
Anyone calling to slow-down progress in AI should remember there are massive costs to inaction.
— Sam Dumitriu (@Sam_Dumitriu)
10:26 AM • May 26, 2023
3. Adobe Generative Fill
Ever wanted to remove an object from a photo? Change the color of someone’s shirt? Expand the background scene? Give Ron DeSantis a Flava Flav style Bitcoin necklace? With Adobe’s new Photoshop AI “generative fill” feature, all of that becomes as simple as typing a few lines of text.
It’s been less than 48 hours since the new AI feature “Generative Fill” dropped in Photoshop.
And it is INCREDIBLE 🤯
Check out my top 10 favorite creations so far:
— Alvaro Cintas (@dr_cintas)
2:49 PM • May 25, 2023
2. Windows Copilot
At Microsoft’s Build developer conference, one of the biggest announcement was that the Copilot experience that has transformed Github is being rolled out more broadly across the entire Windows 11 OS experience. Many believe that embedding generative AI directly into an OS like this will lead to hundreds of millions of people’s first exposure to this type of tool.
3 mo ago, I said windows will be the first AI-first OS. Surely, Microsoft delivers with a sharp vision and steady hand. To me, Windows Copilot is a way bigger deal than Bing Chat. It's becoming a full-fledged agent that takes *actions* on the OS & native software level, given… httptwitter.com/i/web/status/1…p
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan)
4:30 PM • May 23, 2023
1. Internet Browsing ChatGPT for All
Under pressure from other internet-connected chatbots, ChatGPT started rolling out its Browse plugin to paying users a couple weeks ago. Also at Build, however, Microsoft announced that it was enabling all ChatGPT users — including free users — to browse with Bing. The internet transforms the ChatGPT experience and this likely expands its reach and significance ever farther.
Microsoft just dropped a bombshell.
All free ChatGPT users can browse the real-time internet using the 'Browsing with Bing' plugin soon.
5 insane browsing prompts I tried on GPT-4 that everyone can access soon:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
5:15 PM • May 23, 2023
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The Best Other Tweets This Week
GTP-4 Takes on Minecraft! ⛏️🤖
A new study introduces Voyager, an LLM-powered agent in Minecraft, which can learn and evolve without any human intervention.
- Voyager explores the world, builds new skills, and makes original discoveries independently.
- It interacts with GPT-4… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Alvaro Cintas (@dr_cintas)
3:06 PM • May 27, 2023
Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than:
- Facebook ($665B)
- Tesla ($618B)
- Netflix ($168B)This is a company that started 30 years ago at Denny's and was for decades only a video game chip maker.
Here's why Nvidia is surging:
— Peter Yang (@petergyang)
2:30 PM • May 27, 2023
A 40-year-old man left paralyzed after an accident is walking again for the first time in a decade thanks to brain and spinal cord implants, and the use of AI, creating a "digital bridge" to bypass injured parts of his body. @ReeveWill reports.
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews)
2:15 AM • May 25, 2023
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