U.S. President Biden told advisers that technology companies "have a responsibility" to ensure that their AI and other products are safe before rolling them out publicly. Biden made the comments during an AI meeting today with his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. More: - When asked whether he thinks "AI is dangerous," Biden said it "remains to be seen" but "could be."
- AI has the potential to help humanity address "some very difficult challenges, like disease and climate change."
- However, the potential risks to U.S. society, its economy, and national security also need to be addressed, Biden added.
- Biden also urged federal lawmakers to pass legislation requiring businesses to place "health and safety first in the products that they build."
Zoom out: - In October, the White House's Office of Science & Technology Policy released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.
- The wide-ranging document offers suggestions that developers, businesses, and others can follow to reduce AI's potential harms.
- AI systems should work, should not discriminate, and should not use data indiscriminately, blueprint co-writer Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote in a tweet.
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Bill Gates says a proposed pause on advanced AI development would not "solve the challenges" facing the industry. Gates told Reuters that it's difficult to grasp how a pause would work on a global level. His comments addressed an open letter, signed by AI and tech experts, asking labs to temporarily halt any work on advanced AI systems for six months. More: - The letter, presented last week, called for an immediate six-month break or longer in training any systems that are more powerful than GPT-4 while the industry assesses AI's risks.
- Gates, however, said he did not "understand who they're saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop."
- The Microsoft co-founder told Reuters that he thinks it would be better to concentrate on properly using AI as it develops.
- "Clearly, there are huge benefits to these things," he said, "What we need to do is identify the tricky areas."
Zoom out: - In a March blog post, Gates also compared AI to the creation of the PC, microprocessor, internet, and mobile.
- He said "entire industries" will reorient themselves around AI, and businesses "will distinguish themselves by how well they use it."
- Gates also made the case that market forces won't naturally lead to AI technologies that help the underprivileged but likely will do the opposite.
- "With reliable funding and the right policies, governments and philanthropy can ensure that AIs are used to reduce inequity," he wrote.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new AI accelerator that will support generative AI startups. The 10-week program will supply up to $300,000 each in AWS credits and other resources to 10 early-stage startups in the space. More: - To benefit fully from the program, Amazon says startups already have developed a minimal viable product that would use a cloud-native architecture on AWS.
- Companies already developing on AWS will get the most benefit from the cloud unit's solutions architect team, it said.
- As a hybrid program, the accelerator will involve both remote communications and in-person events at the start and end of the program, including a Demo Day for investors in San Francisco.
- AWS does not invest in startups. Amazon says it will offer AWS credits along with access to AI models, customized go-to-market advice, machine learning stack optimization, and industry networking.
- Startups can apply for the AWS Generative AI Accelerator through April 17, 2023.
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Expedia has integrated an OpenAI-powered chatbot into its app to help users plan trips. The ChatGPT-powered bot is now in beta testing on Expedia's iOS app. More: - The "in-app travel planning experience" lets users converse with the app to gain recommendations on where, when, and how to travel, according to Expedia.
- The conversational vacation planning is now available directly within Expedia's app.
- CEO Peter Kern called it "a really interesting capability to make the shopping experience, the discovery experience, easier for certain people who want to use natural language."
- The company also recently added a ChatGPT plugin for users to chat and plan trips on the ChatGPT site.
- Its chatbot is only available in English on iOS. Expedia is planning to bring the feature to Android in the future.
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Fixie, an automation platform for enterprises to build and scale chatbots, has raised $17M in a seed funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Founded by former Apple and Google employees last year, Fixie aims to help businesses integrate large language models into their workflows, data, systems, and more. More: - Co-founder and CPO Zach Koch described Fixie as an "extensible model that enterprises can integrate into their own products and tools."
- Its AI-powered agents can integrate with external systems, such as APIs, databases, and productivity tools, to automate processes and add NLP to products and services.
- A company could, for example, use Fixie's cloud-based platform to integrate LLM capabilities into its customer support workflows to automatically issue refunds and more.
- It supports GPT-4 and a variety of other large language models, such as Jurassic-2, Cohere, and GPT-NeoX.
- Fixie is now offered as a developer preview.
- Others participating in the latest seed funding included Madrona Venture Group, Zetta Venture Partners, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, Kearny Jackson, and various angel investors.
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