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September 22, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday September 22, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Another Ex-Engineer Advocating Around AI Safety

  • 4. Conor Leahy Speaks to the House of Lords

  • 3. A New Bipartisan “Light Touch” AI Bill in the Senate

  • 2. YouTube’s Big AI Announcements

  • 1. Microsoft AI Assistant Officially Rolling Out Across Windows

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5. Another Ex-Engineer AI Safety Convert

Much of the rise in AI safety discourse this year was sparked by Geoffrey Hinton leaving Google. In July, another senior AI engineer Jacopo Pantaleoni left the role at Nvidia that he had held since 2001. His argument is that the biggest threat to the world is the concentration of AI power in the hands of megacorps like Google and Microsoft.

Nvidia Engineer’s Message to Google AI Researchers: Leave Your Company

Jacopo Pantaleoni joined Nvidia in 2001 when the company had less than 500 employees. He worked on what was then a small research project to improve Nvidia’s graphics processing units so they could better render images on computers and gaming consoles.More than two decades later, Nvidia has more ...

www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-engineers-message-to-google-ai-researchers-leave-your-company?rc=jrwr4u

4. Conor Leahy Speaks to the House of Lords

Continuing the trend of AI safety voices finding more powerful audiences, Conor Leahy spoke at the UK House of Lords yesterday, proposing a set of measures to mitigate AI risk that includes personal and business liability, caps on computing power and a global AI kill switch.

3. A New Bipartisan “Light Touch” AI Bill in the Senate

Senate Minority Whip John Thune is set to introduce what he calls “light-touch” AI legislation with the backing of Democrat Amy Klobuchar. The bill involves companies assessing their riskiest models and a self-certification system. Thune says its meant to directly contrast what he believes will be more heavy-handed legislation coming from Chuck Schumer.

Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill

John Thune, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, is set to unveil a major AI bill with backing from Amy Klobuchar — and says it's the opposite of the "heavy-handed” plans he expects from Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/thune-klobuchar-ai-bill-00117236

2. YouTube’s Big AI Announcements

AI Product Fall continues with YouTube announcing a slate of AI products at its "Made on YouTube” event this week. They include tools for generating AI image and video backgrounds for Shorts; AI-powered content suggestions that are personalized to the creator; an AI-powered music recommendation system and finally an AI overdubbing tool to automatically translate content to other languages.

1. Microsoft AI Assistant Officially Rolling Out Across Windows

We’re about to see how powerful it can be to have an AI assistant natively integrated into an operating system. Starting next week, Microsoft will be rolling out Copilot for Windows, an assistant that lives everywhere across the Microsoft experience. Dall-E 3 will also be available in Bing. On the one hand, many people are thrilled at the innovation. On the other, there is this take…

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