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| Welcome to Inside AI! Today's issue covers: - Major tech CEOs will attend the first congressional AI forum this week.
- Meta is developing an AI model that could rival GPT-4.
- Amazon is requiring authors to disclose when content is AI-generated.
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| 1 | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will host the first of nine congressional "AI Insight Forums" on Wednesday. Many prominent tech CEOs are set to attend, including Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, and others. More: - The closed-door forum is scheduled to last for six hours at minimum.
- AI experts will play a role in educating lawmakers about AI and addressing their questions in advance of future regulations.
- Workers, advocacy, civil rights, and creative groups will also attend, and the bipartisan gathering will be press-free.
Zoom out: - The first of nine "AI Insight Forums," the events this fall are expected to give lawmakers "the facts and the challenges that we need to understand in order to reach" the goal of pursuing AI legislation in committee, Schumer said.
- The Senator announced the forums in June alongside his SAFE Innovation Framework outlining priorities for AI policy.
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| 2 | | Meta Platforms is reportedly developing a powerful AI model to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, according to The Wall Street Journal. Meta is aggressively acquiring advanced AI training chips and building out its data centers to develop the chatbot for potential release next year. More: - Training for Meta's large language model is set to begin in early 2024.
- The new system, expected to be "several times more powerful" than Meta's current Llama 2 model, would allow companies to build AI services for text generation, image creation, and analysis.
- To achieve this, Meta is buying more Nvidia H100 AI-training chips and strengthening its infrastructure to reduce reliance on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
- Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, intends to make the new model open-source.
Zoom out: - Despite these ambitions, Meta has encountered challenges, including high AI researcher turnover due to an "internal battle" over computing resources between AI teams.
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| 3 | | Amazon unveiled new rules requiring self-published authors to tell the company when their content is AI-generated. Amazon won't publicly identify AI-generated books, but it remains open to revisiting this practice. More: - The rules distinguish between AI-generated content and AI-assisted content, where disclosure is not required if the author created the original content but used AI to edit and/or refine it.
- "AI-generated" applies to content created with AI, whether text, images, or translations, even if the author makes "substantial edits."
- The guidelines apply to authors who distribute their work through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
- The Authors Guild referred to the policy as "a welcome first step" after months of talks between the guild and Kindle Direct Publishing.
Zoom out: - Last month, Amazon removed five books from its platform that were wrongly credited to author Jane Friedman, who suspects they were AI-generated.
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| 4 | | Just over half of Americans, or 53%, think AI-spread misinformation will impact who wins the 2024 presidential election, according to an Axios-Morning Consult poll. The poll, conducted online from Aug. 10 to 13 among 2,203 U.S. adults, has a margin of error of ±2 percentage points. 
What the numbers show: 53% believe AI-driven misinformation will affect the election outcome, a view shared by Fox, CNN, and MSNBC viewers. Trump supporters (47%) were nearly twice as concerned about AI eroding their trust in election results as Biden supporters (27%). Overall, 35% believed AI would lower their trust in election advertising, with 42% among Trump voters and 33% among Biden voters. Why it matters: The survey highlights widespread doubt about election integrity as a result of AI. The technology has already been used by the Republican National Committee in its first AI-generated video ad, which attacked President Biden. A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC released a TV ad attacking former President Trump, using an AI-generated version of Trump's voice. Meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has moved closer to potentially regulating AI content in political ads. Q: Do you think AI-generated misinformation will affect who wins the 2024 presidential election? Join the conversation here. | | | |
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| 5 | | Google's philanthropic arm is launching a $20M fund to support think tanks and academic institutions in furthering conversations around responsible AI. Grants from the fund have already been provided to think tanks like the Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, and MIT's Future of Work, among others. More: - Google and its charitable arm, Google.org, initiated the Digital Futures Project to study responsible AI technologies.
- The $20M fund is a part of that effort. The tech giant plans to fund independent thinkers exploring AI's impact on global security, workforce transition, government productivity, and responsible AI innovation.
- The fund will provide support to global organizations, not only those in the U.S.
Zoom out: - In 2018, Google published its set of AI principles, which include standards like believing AI should "be socially beneficial" and "avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias."
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| 6 | | AI Events and Conferences: - Generative AI World: Sept. 12-14, Boston, Mass.
- AI Hardware Summit: Sept. 12-14, Santa Clara, Calif.
- Edge AI Summit: Sept. 12-14, Santa Clara, Calif.
- MLCon NYC 2023: Sept. 25-28, New York, N.Y., or online.
- The AI Conference 2023: Sept. 26-27, San Francisco.
- AI & Big Data Expo: Sept. 26-27, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- AIAI Computer Vision Summit — Berlin: Oct. 5, Berlin, Germany.
- WorId Summit AI: Oct 11-12, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing: Nov 6-7, San Francisco.
- AI World Barcelona: Generative AI Conference: Nov. 14-15, Barcelona, Spain.
- AI & Big Data Expo Global 2023: Nov. 30-Dec. 1, London, U.K.
- The AI Summit New York: Dec. 6-7, New York, N.Y.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is the curator and writer of the AI and Tech newsletters at Inside. With a career in journalism and editing that began in 2007, she has written for publications including USA Today, The Arizona Republic, Arizona Business Gazette, and more. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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