| Welcome to today's Inside AI newsletter! Here are the top stories: - White House secures AI safeguards with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft on board.
- President Biden emphasizes the need for "new laws, regulations, and oversight" to manage AI's risks.
- 69% of Americans are uncomfortable with AI, according to a recent survey.
- Cerebras Systems' huge AI supercomputer is now up and running.
Scroll down for our Weekly Roundup of other key AI stories you may have missed this week. Have a great weekend! Beth
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| 1 | | Major U.S. AI companies, such as Google and OpenAI, have pledged to follow voluntary AI safeguards endorsed by the White House. The firms have agreed to eight measures, including third-party model testing, cybersecurity investments, and virtual watermarks to distinguish real from AI-created content. More: - The companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI — pledged to new safety, security, and trust standards during a meeting with President Biden on Friday.
- Under the measures, the companies will subject their AI systems to independent testing and invite third parties to assess them for security flaws.
- They've committed to watermarking visual and audio content generated by AI, ensuring users can identify things like deepfakes, AI music, etc.
Zoom out: - The voluntary measures are considered an immediate step while Congress considers long-term AI regulations.
- The White House is also working on an executive order for AI and supporting bipartisan legislation to regulate AI.
- On the congressional side, lawmakers are said to be considering a bill that would require political campaigns and groups to reveal their use of AI-generated imagery in political ads.
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| 2 | | In a Friday speech on AI, President Biden stressed the need for "new laws, regulations, and oversight" to manage AI's risk. Biden confirmed his plans to take "executive action" in the weeks ahead to support responsible AI innovation. More: - While the White House will continue to issue executive actions for regulating AI, Biden stressed that Congress must also pass dedicated AI legislation.
- "We'll see more technology change in the next 10 years, or even in the next few years, than we've seen in the last 50 years," he said.
- Biden, who announced the voluntary commitments from AI companies for safeguards, also called for bipartisan legislation that enforces strict limits on personal data collection, bans targeted advertisements to children, and prioritizes health and safety.
- He also thanked both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for prioritizing AI regulation.
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| 3 | | The news: According to a CNBC survey, the discomfort among Americans regarding AI has surged by 10 percentage points since 2016, with 69% now expressing unease about the idea of AI. What the numbers say: Only 27% of respondents now feel comfortable with AI programs mimicking human thinking and replacing human activities, a decrease from 36% in 2016. Americans also expressed high discomfort with AI in customer service (66%), medical diagnosis (65%), and self-driving cars (76%). Additionally, 21% believe AI could simplify their jobs, while 18% fear job replacement and 49% expect no impact on their work. The survey, conducted with 1,000 adults from July 12-16, carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1% What it means: The survey's results raise questions about the need for AI regulation, with the public's unease potentially influencing lawmakers' decisions. Additionally, the findings highlight the importance of educating the public on AI's risks as well as its benefits. 
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| 4 | | Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has completed Condor Galaxy 1, its first of nine supercomputers for AI training. Now up and running, Condor Galaxy 1 cost more than $100M to build. More: - The supercomputer, located in Santa Clara, California, currently boasts a capability of 2 billion operations per second (2 exaflops) and will expand to 4 exaflops soon.
- For perspective, an exaflop computer's capabilities equal performing one calculation per second for over 31 billion years.
- It will double in size from 32 Cerebras CS-2 computers to 64 within 12 weeks.
- Cerebras plans to build two more supercomputers in Asheville, North Carolina (CG-2), and another in Austin, Texas (CG-3), with completion targeted for H1 2024.
- It will continue to add more Condor Galaxy installations until it forms a network of nine supercomputers, reaching a total capability of 36 exaflops.
G42 contract: - UAE-based AI company G42 owns Condor Galaxy, using the system to train an Arabic version of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
- The holding company oversees nine AI-based businesses, including cloud provider G42 Cloud.
- Cerebras operates the supercomputers and can rent out any excess capacity commercially as a service.
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| 5 | | Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who stepped down as an executive in 2019, has returned to assist with the tech giant's AI efforts. Brin has appeared at Google's Mountain View offices several times per week to work alongside researchers on Google's AI model Gemini. More: - According to The Wall Street Journal, Brin has been actively involved in AI-related meetings, interviewing researchers, and engaging in weekly AI research sessions with employees.
- In December, Brin and fellow co-founder Larry Page were recruited by CEO Sundar Pichai in Google's "code red" response to the launch of ChatGPT.
- According to employees, Brin's heightened involvement stems from his passion for AI and the company's need to keep up with competitors in the rapidly advancing market.
Gemini: - Google DeepMind's CEO, Demis Hassabis, is leading the ambitious Gemini chatbot project, which builds on the capabilities of DeepMind's AlphaGo AI system.
- Gemini can analyze text, plan, and solve problems, Hassabis has said.
- DeepMind, Googe's AI lab, previously introduced Sparrow, a dialogue agent focused on safe and appropriate responses,
- Google also introduced its own AI chatbot, Bard, in March.
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| 6 | | Weekly roundup — Other top AI stories you might have missed this week: - Apple is developing its own chatbot and AI tools to compete with OpenAI and Google, according to Bloomberg. The company has created a framework called "Ajax" to build language models, including one referred to internally as "Apple GPT."
- Google expanded its Bard AI chatbot to the European Union and Brazil, offering new features, including support for over 40 languages. Besides the wider rollout, Bard can now speak answers out loud to users, helping with things like word pronunciation, as well as responding to prompts of images.
- Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI, aims to develop a beneficial AGI and explore concepts like dark matter, dark energy, aliens, and gravity. During a recent Twitter Spaces chat, Musk said his new AI venture would be able to compete with AI players such as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
- Meta is making its large language model, Llama 2, available for free to companies and researchers. As of this week, Llama 2 is available on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service and is optimized to run locally on Windows.
- Microsoft will charge businesses $30 a month per user to access its new AI assistant in its business Office software. The assistant, called Copilot, generates text, charts, and other content in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and other Microsoft 365 applications.
- Google is currently testing an AI tool named "Genesis" that can produce news content, as reported by The New York Times. The tool was demonstrated to high-ranking executives from major media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal.
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| 7 | | The AI creator economy w/Roy Hermann In the age of AI, will there be a shift in how much credit and compensation a creator expects after they release their creation into the world? In this Inside AI Talk, Supercreator.ai co-founder and CEO Roy Herman shares his thoughts on the AI creator economy, AI tools for professionals, the tech scene in Israel, and more. Click the image below to watch and read: 
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. She has written the Inside AI newsletter since 2019. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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