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| Here are today's top AI stories: - Meta's long-term vision is to build open-source AGI, Mark Zuckerberg says.
- A PAC has released a chatbot of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
- Nearly half of game developers report the use of generative AI in their workplace.
- A nonprofit is now offering a label for copyright-compliant AI.
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| 1 | | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared an update on the company's AI initiatives today, saying that the long-term goal is to build and open-source artificial general intelligence. Meta is also restructuring its AI efforts, bringing its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) unit "closer together" with the GenAI research team to advance AI toward more human-like intelligence, he said. More: - In the video, Zuckerberg said it's now clear that building full general intelligence will be necessary for the next generation of AI products and services.
- Meta's future plans for AI will also require it to build a "massive compute infrastructure," Zuckerberg said.
- Highlighting Meta's investments in AI, he said that the company expects to end this year with 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs.
- These graphics cards used for AI training and inference reportedly cost around $30,000 apiece, amounting to billions of dollars.
- Including other non-Nvidia GPUs, Meta's compute infrastructure will reach nearly 600,000 GPUs, he said.
Other updates: - Meta's FAIR, previously in Reality Labs, will now fall under its Family of Apps division, further merging the company's AI research and product efforts.
- The company has also begun training Llama 3, its next-generation large language model, which is expected to have code-generating capabilities.
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| 2 | | A Super PAC supporting U.S. presidential candidate Dean Phillips has unveiled a voice-replicating chatbot of the Democratic contender. The Washington Post described "Dean.Bot" as "one of the first known uses of AI in a political campaign." More: - Matt Krisiloff, formerly chief of staff to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Jed Somers, COO of Owner, co-founded the political action committee (PAC) called "We Deserve Better."
- The PAC's Dean.Bot, initially powered by OpenAI software, is now available on mobile or desktop.
- Developers took Phillips' voice samples from speeches, podcasts, and more to create the AI bot for audio conversations.
- Users can "start a call" and ask questions via a mic, and the chatbot will reply in Phillips' voice.
- Because OpenAI bans the use of its AI in political campaigns, the PAC has since asked the contracted engineers to remove ChatGPT from Dean.Bot and use open-source models instead.
About the PAC: - "We Deserve Better" has almost 20 donors, including hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman, crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb, and Neal Khosla, CEO at Curai and the son of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Altman declined to invest.
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| 3 | | In a GDC survey, nearly half of all game developers reported the use of generative AI tools in their workplace. Of those respondents, 31% said they use the AI tools themselves, while 18% said that their colleagues do. 
What happened: GDC, Game Developer, and Omdia surveyed 3,000+ game industry professionals on major industry topics and shared those results in the 2024 State of the Game Industry report. While the survey is done annually, it was the first time developers were asked specifically about AI and its ethical impacts on the industry. What the numbers show: While 49% of respondents reported the use of AI in their workplace, 38% said their company doesn't use AI tools. Of those, 15% expressed interest in their company pursuing AI tools, while 23% showed no interest. In another question, 12% of respondents said their employer doesn't allow AI tool usage. For large AAA game studios, this restriction rose to 21%. Ethical concerns: Although AI usage in game development appears to be growing, 42% of respondents said they were "very concerned" about the ethics of using generative AI, while another 42% had only "some concerns." Just 12% had no concerns at all. Opinions on whether AI tools would have a positive (21%) or negative (18%) impact on the industry were divided, with the majority (57%) believing the impact would be mixed. | | | |
| 4 | | A nonprofit is now offering a label for AI tools that are copyright-compliant. Fairly Trained, founded by a former AI executive, is awarding the certification to firms that license the data used to train their AI models. More: - AI companies can submit their models to Fairly Trained for review.
- Those trained on public-domain content, or who have permission to use copyrighted training data, are eligible for the "Licensed Model" certification.
- So far, Fairly Trained has certified nine generative AI startups: Beatoven.ai, Boomy, BRIA.ai, Endel, LifeScore, Rightsify, SOMMS.AI, Soundful, and Tuney.
- Eight of the startups are focused on sound generation, while one specializes in image creation. None specializes in text generation.
Zoom out: - Fairly Trained was founded by former Stability AI audio VP Ed Newton-Rex, who left in November over concerns that generative AI is "exploiting creators."
- Newton-Rex said he left Stability due to disagreements with the startup's stance on "fair use," which allows for limited use of copyrighted material without having to gain permission under certain circumstances, particularly education.
- Some companies, businesses, and consumers prefer AI models trained solely on licensed or public-domain data, he said, especially given the legal issues and ongoing copyright cases involving OpenAI, Microsoft, and others.
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| 5 | | OpenAI has signed a deal with Arizona State University, its first partnership with a higher education institution. In February, ASU will gain full access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a business-focused version of the chatbot that offers improved privacy, security, and unlimited high-speed access to GPT-4. More: - ASU said it intends to use ChatGPT Enterprise for coursework, research, tutoring, and more.
- It plans to develop a personalized AI tutor for students, expand its prompt engineering course, and offer AI avatars to support students' studies.
- The university will also launch a challenge for faculty to submit their best-use scenario ideas for the AI technology.
Zoom out: - The partnership with OpenAI has been on the table for at least six months since ASU's chief information officer first visited the startup's HQ.
- OpenAI is "keen to learn from ASU" and grow ChatGPT's impact in higher education, COO Brad Lightcap said.
- OpenAI has pledged not to use ASU data for training models and will maintain the privacy and security of prompts.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for notable publications like USA Today and the Arizona Business Gazette. During her time as a public policy reporter at The Arizona Republic, she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for her collaborative reporting on pension cost increases. Beth also authored a book on the solar photovoltaic industry in 2016. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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