Chinese-language social media platform WeChat has barred users from accessing ChatGPT. The platform has been removing applets, or small computer programs, that link ChatGPT to WeChat. More: - After OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, applets featuring the AI chatbot began popping up on WeChat, China's most popular social media app with 1.2 billion users.
- Accounts and tutorials have also appeared that explain how to connect to ChatGPT via WeChat.
- However, some of the mini-programs and accounts have disappeared in recent days. Tencent Holdings, which owns WeChat, has stated that the chatbot does "not fall within the scope" of the platform's service.
- A ChatGPT applet link states that the service was suspended because it "belongs to the platform's unopened service scope."
- ChatGPT is considered officially unavailable in China, though users in the country still access it using a VPN and a foreign phone number.
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European tech companies are trailing their U.S. and Chinese counterparts in the development of general-purpose AI systems, according to a Future of Life Institute report. Europe-based companies lack the "money, data, and computational resources" to create these AI systems and will likely rely on the technologies developed in other countries moving forward, the report states. More: - The institute cites the example of San Francisco-based OpenAI's GPT-3, which has already been integrated into hundreds of applications globally since its 2020 release.
- The system is being used by European companies such as MessageBird and Flowrite.
- Meanwhile, Europe's dependencies on outside AI systems will likely grow over time as applications become more dependent on these technologies, according to the report.
- This could be problematic if access is somehow restricted or U.S. and China-developed AI systems don't abide by European laws governing data and privacy, for example.
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The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) is now accepting proposals for AI/ML approaches that could help advance nuclear fusion. The agency is seeking to award up to $33M toward research that applies AI/ML to massive datasets and could uncover new insights into fusion energy and the plasma sciences, according to The Register. More: - Researchers would apply AI/ML to public datasets, with a long-term goal of supporting methods that could eventually result in the development of a fusion pilot power plant in several decades.
- The research could uncover insights that were previously overlooked in fusion experiments, as well as help fine-tune computer models used to simulate nuclear fusion reactions.
- The DOE expects to award grants of $1M to $2.5M each to six to 10 projects.
- The request comes after scientists recently generated more energy in fusion than was used to initiate the reaction. In the experiment, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory put in 2.05 megajoules of energy and achieved an output of 3.15 megajoules, a 50% net positive.
Zoom-out: - Similarly, scientists this year announced AI software that's capable of controlling a key system in nuclear fusion, potentially paving the way for more stable and efficient reactions.
- The neural network was created by computer scientists at Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind and physicists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
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Nearly 30 former Google AI employees have left the company in the past year for AI startups or other organizations, according to an Insider analysis. The startups include OpenAI, Adept AI, Inflection AI, Character.ai, and others. Google has been a big source of talent in the sector, and a notable number of AI experts and researchers have moved on to other pursuits as AI becomes more mainstream and profitable. More: - For example, Mustafa Suleyman, former Google VP of AI products and policy, co-founded the AI startup Inflection AI this year.
- Suleyman was a founding member of AI lab DeepMind, which he sold to Google for ~$600M in 2014.
- Inflection AI has gone on to hire experts from Google, including former DeepMind researcher Karén Simonyan, who is an Inflection co-founder and chief scientist.
- Others who have left Google include Niki Parmar, Anmol Gulati, Erich Elsen, and Ashish Vaswani, who now work for Adept AI.
- Overall, Insider identified at least 26 former Googlers who have left for AI/ML startups and organizations in roughly the last year.
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A California law barring automakers from advertising cars as fully autonomous will take effect on Jan. 1. While the law applies to all manufacturers and dealers in the state, it could have a disproportionate impact on Tesla, which markets its advanced driver assistance system as "Full Self-Driving." More: - The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, states that automakers and dealers must provide clear descriptions of the capabilities and limitations of assisted driving technologies.
- The law cracks down on marketing and advertising of AI software features that claim full autonomy but do not actually offer full self-driving functionality.
- In the case of Tesla, its "Full Self-Driving" upgrade still requires the driver to take control much of the time. The automaker recently moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, but manufactures vehicles in Fremont, California.
- The company notes that its system is designed for "short and long-distance trips" with no action needed by the driver. It plans to continue introducing new self-driving capabilities via over-the-air updates.
- Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC are investigating Tesla over claims made by the company and its executives about the performance and safety of its Autopilot system.
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- A Denver City Council candidate has been experimenting with the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT to aid in his campaign.
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