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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI generated propaganda, AI boom raises alarm, more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI generated propaganda, AI boom raises alarm, more

[ad_1] AI generated propaganda matches effectiveness of genuine content, study finds; AI boom raises alarming concerns over big tech's surging water consumption; Ludhiana industry gains insights on AI advancements at LMA session; AI technology aids US and allies in monitoring China's Taiwan invasion intentions- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look. 1. AI generated propaganda matches effectiveness of genuine content, study findsA study involving 8,000 US adults reveals that AI-generated propaganda is nearly as convincing as original propaganda. Stanford and Georgetown University researchers fed sentences from suspected state-aligned covert propaganda into GPT-3, demonstrating the model's ability to create persuasive articles. The findings raise concerns about increased ...
OpenAI backs idea of requiring licenses for advanced AI systems
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OpenAI backs idea of requiring licenses for advanced AI systems

[ad_1] An internal policy memo drafted by OpenAI shows the company supports the idea of requiring government licenses from anyone who wants to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems. The document also suggests the company is willing to pull back the curtain on the data it uses to train image generators.The creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E laid out a series of AI policy commitments in the internal document following a May 4 meeting between White House officials and tech executives including OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman. “We commit to working with the US government and policy makers around the world to support development of licensing requirements for future generations of the most highly capable foundation models,” the San Francisco-based company said in the draft. Th...
ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU’s AI Rules
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ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU’s AI Rules

[ad_1] Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated — and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden.Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the strong measures proposed by the European Union for AI products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, US national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public. This dissonance has left the US without a coherent response during this week's US-EU Trade and Technology Council gathering in Sweden to the EU'...
How AI Will Make Land More Valuable
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How AI Will Make Land More Valuable

[ad_1] The long list of things AI will revolutionize includes, in roughly descending order of importance, childhood, democracy, the internet, chess and how to decide where to go on vacation. Today I would like to write about an area that cuts close to home: economic policy.To start with a simple framework: Production is the result of a combination of inputs — land, labor, capital and so on. If one of those inputs becomes more plentiful, the others become more scarce, in relative terms, and thus higher in marginal value. Powerful AI makes intelligence, broadly construed, more abundant. That will be good for productivity overall, but other factors will become relatively more scarce. First is land. With all that extra intelligence, there will be a need and a desire to undertake many new pr...