Newsletter OpenAssistant is supposed to become a real open-source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now first models, training data, and code are available. The OpenAssistant project started in December, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT. The goal is to create an open-source AI assistant with the same capabilities. To that end, the team spent months collecting a …
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Summary Italy has blocked ChatGPT due to GDPR concerns, OpenAI has followed suit without protest. Will other EU countries also block ChatGPT? According to a Reuters report, the data protection authorities of France and Ireland have contacted the Italian data protection authority. The latter had blocked ChatGPT last week due to privacy concerns, OpenAI has …
Generative AI tears a hole in existing copyright and privacy laws, and EU takes notice Read More »
Summary “The number of incidents concerning the misuse of AI is rapidly rising.” This is one of the key statements that can be read in the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023. This year’s 400-page work is considered one of the most trusted reports on the status quo of artificial intelligence, and is now in its …
Summary Researchers at TH Ingolstadt and the University of Southern Denmark have studied the effects of AI opinions on humans. Their study shows that machine-generated moral perspectives can influence people, even when they know the perspective comes from a machine. In their two-step experiment, the researchers first asked ChatGPT to find solutions to different variants …
ChatGPT influences users’ judgment more than people think Read More »
Summary In February, the 3D database Sketchfab introduced a NoAI tag for authors. But that was too late, as it now turns out. The latest variant of generative AI models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, or recently GPT-4 brought a rude awakening: AI models for images, text, and code have the potential …
Summary Stability AI may be a driver of AI development – but it also needs funding. Money is reportedly running low. CEO Emad Mostaque believes in the growing importance of AI models owned by organizations and governments, and sees his company well-positioned to take advantage. Founded in 2019, London-based startup Stability AI is seen as …
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Summary The non-profit AI research organization LAION has launched a petition calling for open AI models for a “secure digital future”. The goal of the initiative is a publicly funded supercomputer for international open source AI research and development. 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators would provide the necessary international supercomputing research infrastructure to support the training …
LAION urges open AI models with continued rapid innovation Read More »
Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss ChatGPT in Japan. OpenAI plans to comply with European privacy laws. Japan is considering the use of AI technology like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. To that end, OpenAI chief Sam Altman visited Kishida and briefed him on the opportunities and risks of …
OpenAI plans Japan expansion and negotiates with Europe Read More »
Summary AI is already transforming jobs, raising serious questions in the process. Policymakers should start looking for answers. “It happened to me today,” reads a thread on Reddit in which a freelance writer complains that he just lost his “biggest and best” client to ChatGPT. The client had told him that while he wrote better …
As GPT-4 reshapes the labor market, policymakers may soon need answers Read More »
Summary Chinese internet company Alibaba launches Tongyi Qianwen, a ChatGPT-like chatbot for Chinese businesses and consumers. Shortly after, the Chinese government unveils strict rules for generative AI. Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen is to be used primarily for business applications, driving Alibaba’s cloud applications. Initially, Chinese business customers will have access. “We are at a technological watershed …
Alibaba launches its GPT-4 competitor as Beijing crashes the chatbot party Read More »
