A lot is happening in the world of AI. To help you stay up to date with the latest news, we've put together a list of the developments we're following.
On Friday, lawmakers from the European Union's 27 member states agreed on a key final aspect of the AI law. The EU AI law, passed as a draft in June 2023, “sets a new global benchmark for countries seeking to harness the potential benefits of AI.” [artificial intelligence-based applications]While trying to protect against possible risks. ” The risk-based approach set out in the European bill will reduce potential human harm in areas such as attacks on infrastructure, automation of operations, online misinformation, and risks to national security. The aims. Manufacturers of AI technologies in these high-risk areas will need to conduct evaluations before their technology can be used routinely, similar to the drug approval process. Tech industry groups have pushed back, arguing that such regulations would stifle AI innovation.
Elon Musk's xAI company appears to have launched Grok, a ChatGPT competitor. For now, Grok is only available to his X (formerly Twitter) Premium subscribers. In related news, Musk is seeking to raise $1 billion to fund xAI.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office expressing concerns about unfair business practices facilitated by the misuse of copyrighted material. The FTC also says that generative AI tools can be used to violate consumer privacy and increase discrimination and prejudice.
Google has announced a multimodal generative AI model called Gemini, which it is deploying as an upgrade to its current large-scale language model, Bard.
