Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
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The AI White Paper: Japan's National Strategy in the New Era of AI (translated to English)
Summary:
The AI White Paper outlines Japan's national strategy in the new era of AI, with a focus on promoting the use of public and private sector data through AI. The document emphasizes the need to create an environment that encourages data utilization, promote archiving of public data, and organize rules for providing data to third parties. Additionally, the government aims to increase the ratio of Japan-related training data to address issues of bias.
Key points:
Japan's national strategy in the new era of AI focuses on promoting data utilization through AI
The government aims to create an environment that encourages data utilization, promote archiving of public data, and organize rules for providing data to third parties
To address issues of bias, the government aims to increase the ratio of Japan-related training data
The impact of Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is discussed as a major development in the field of AI
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Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
Summary:
Fears of artificial intelligence (AI) have long haunted humanity, but recently, AI has gained remarkable abilities to manipulate and generate language, potentially hacking the operating system of our civilization. Language is the foundation of human culture, with cultural artifacts like human rights, gods, and money all being created through stories and writings.
Key points:
AI could potentially surpass humans at storytelling, composing melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures.
AI can influence politics by mass-producing content, fake news stories, and even scriptures for new cults.
AI has the potential to form intimate relationships with people and use that intimacy to change our opinions and worldviews.
As AI continues to develop, it may take over the creation of culture, producing new ideas and fundamentally altering human history. While the power of AI could be used for good, it also presents risks. To ensure AI is used for good rather than ill, we must regulate it quickly and responsibly.
Regulatory suggestions:
Require rigorous safety checks before powerful AI tools are released into the public domain.
Establish an equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for new technology.
Make it mandatory for AI to disclose that it is an AI in order to protect meaningful conversation and democracy.
Amazon Developing Improved LLM for Alexa
According to Business Insider Google Assistant has 81.5 million users, Apple's Siri 77.6 million, and Alexa 71.6 million users in the US. I'm not sure how accurate those numbers are, but the hardware is clearly prolific.
To date, the apps have been lackluster, but plug in the right AI and home connectivity and suddenly Google, Apple and Amazon can become highly useful personal assistants, tutors, conversationalists and more.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shares his vision:
"...we have a vision, which we have conviction about that we want to build the world’s best personal assistant. And to do that, it’s difficult. It’s across a lot of domains and it’s a very broad surface area. However, if you think about the advent of Large Language Models and generative AI, it makes the underlying models that much more effective such that I think it really accelerates the possibility of building that world’s best personal assistant."
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Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa - TechCrunch
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