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OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Team

OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Team

Plus Amazon's AI earnings call

Nathaniel Whittemore
October 27, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday October 27, 2023

Today on the First Five:

5. Politicians First Reactions to Anticipated Biden EO
4. Team Turnover at Stability AI
3. UN Forms AI Advisory Group
2. Amazon’s AI Earnings Call
1. OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Team

5. Politicians First Reactions to Anticipated Biden EO

The Biden Administration is expected to unveil its executive order on artificial intelligence on Monday in advance of the UK Safety Summit. Politicians have started to weigh in, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for example saying it doesn’t go far enough and that Congressional action is needed.

.@SenSchumer on the Biden Administration AI strategy, “There's probably a limit to what you can do by executive order … They can't just come up with the funds … They're concerned and they're doing a lot regulatorily. But everyone admits, the only real answer is legislative."
— Washington Post Live (@PostLive)
1:43 PM • Oct 26, 2023

4. Team Turnover at Stability AI

Stability AI is once again back in the headlines for reasons other than new products or models. This time it’s Bloomberg noticing that the company’s GC and head of HR have left, just a couple months after they were proudly touted as members of the leadership team in a press release.

An AI startup scoop from me:
Stability AI General Counsel, HR Chief Depart From Startup
— Rachel Metz (@rachelmetz)
12:49 AM • Oct 27, 2023

3. UN Forms AI Advisory Group

On Thursday, the UN Secretary General announced a new AI advisory body to help develop consensus around AI risks and make recommendations for international cooperation around them. Its seen as a first step towards an actual governance body.

Looking forward to working on one of the most pressing questions of our time: how to governing AI globally. I am honored to serve on the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI with these esteemed people from all corners of the world ↘️ un.org/en/ai-advisory…
— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake)
4:30 PM • Oct 26, 2023

2. Amazon’s AI Earnings Call

Earlier in the week Google and Microsoft both held earnings calls which showed how AI was already impacting the bottom line. Amazon continued that trend, beating earnings estimates and touting even stronger than expected growth in their AI business.

Amazon's Jassy: We're "surprised" at growth of our generative AI business
— Axios (@axios)
4:45 AM • Oct 27, 2023

1. OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Team

The UN isn’t the only group thinking about the risks of AI. OpenAI has announced a new Preparedness team. The group is meant to formalize how the company integrates and mitigates risk assessment of a huge array of threats into how it develops and deploys models.

We are building a new Preparedness team to evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks of highly-capable AI—from today's models to AGI.
Goal: a quantitative, evidence-based methodology, beyond what is accepted as possible:
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
5:10 PM • Oct 26, 2023

BONUS: Getting more out of ChatGPT with Custom Instructions

Now that ChatGPT has rolled out custom instructions to most users, try out this instruction -- it makes GPT 4 far more accurate for me: (Concat the rest of this 🧵 together and put in your custom instruction section)
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward)
2:32 AM • Aug 10, 2023

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