The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday August 15, 2023

5. Iowa School District Uses AI to Ban Books

One of the big challenges for book-banners has been how to know which books to ban without reading them all. One clever school has deployed AI to identify all the phrases and content that might make them want to censor a title. A great reminder that technology can be used for good or gross.

4. “Zero Trust AI Governance”

A group of nonprofits have released a set of policy proposals that they call “Zero Trust AI Governance” that advocates for AI regulation along three clear policy planks: 1) enforce existing laws; 2) easily-implemented bright-line rules; 3) burden on AI companies to prove they’re safe. They also have Section 230 in their sights.

3. Did Microsoft Just Release ChatGPT for Business?

Yesterday, Microsoft’s Github saw a big Azure update that was basically the ChatGPT experience but running on the private Azure cloud. This is a feature OpenAI has been promising since April, so it was interesting to see Microsoft launch it first. Except…now the Github page has been taken down? Something mysterious is happening.

2. Gulf States Race to Acquire Compute

Saudi Arabia and the UAE appear to be pursuing a strategy of AI Non-Alignment, as they race to develop the capacity to train their own models rather than become reliant on technology from the US or China. Part of that is, apparently, some massive orders for Nvidia chips.

1. Inflection Founder’s Anti-Open Source Post Pisses People Off

Mustafa Suleyman, founder of DeepMind and more recently founder of Inflection has raised some serious hackles with a Twitter post seemingly arguing against open source technology. Do you agree that open source is dangerous?

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