From AP News:
Vice President Kamala Harris met on Thursday with the heads of Google, Microsoft and two other companies developing artificial intelligence as the Biden administration rolls out initiatives meant to ensure the rapidly evolving technology improves lives without putting people’s rights and safety at risk.
President Joe Biden briefly dropped by the meeting in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, saying he hoped the group could “educate us” on what is most needed to protect and advance society.
“What you’re doing has enormous potential and enormous danger,” Biden told the CEOs, according to a video posted to his Twitter account.
The popularity of AI chatbot ChatGPT — even Biden has given it a try, White House officials said Thursday — has sparked a surge of commercial investment in AI tools that can write convincingly human-like text and churn out new images, music and computer code.
But the ease with which it can mimic humans has propelled governments around the world to consider how it could take away jobs, trick people and spread disinformation.
The Democratic administration announced an investment of $140 million to establish seven new AI research institutes.
In addition, the White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to issue guidance in the next few months on how federal agencies can use AI tools. There is also an independent commitment by top AI developers to participate in a public evaluation of their systems in August at the Las Vegas hacker convention DEF CON.
But the White House also needs to take stronger action as AI systems built by these companies are getting integrated into thousands of consumer applications, said Adam Conner of the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.
“We’re at a moment that in the next couple of months will really determine whether or not we lead on this or cede leadership to other parts of the world, as we have in other tech regulatory spaces like privacy or regulating large online platforms,” Conner said.
The meeting was pitched as a way for Harris and administration officials to discuss the risks in current AI development with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the heads of two influential startups: Google-backed Anthropic and Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
Link to the rest at AP News
Maybe they can start by telling us how we know if a given set of software is intelligent.
First I want them to prove politicians and their friends are.
Even if the software were intelligent, how would *they* know?
It takes one to know one.
Sigh.
The blind pretending to lead the sighted.
They refuse to accept that it is early days and the chatbots they fret over will be shortly swept away by optimized narrow focused tools.
Note this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/senior-engineer-says-google-is-losing/ar-AA1aPQD9?ocid=Peregrine&cvid=7abe51dbf9064b5f880c8deee8cceabc&ei=27
“Open source communities are running foundation models on a Pixel 6 at a record speed, he explained. They can finetune a personalized AI on your laptop in an evening and entire websites full of art models with no restrictions whatsoever; and text is not far behind.”
“He concludes that Google’s biggest rival is not OpenAI but the open source communities because they are developing AI models and tools that are cheaper, faster, easily adaptable and adjustable to each client, compared to the giant models of tech groups and more specifically to those of Google.”
Try to regulate that, idiots!
Also of note: while the media and friends in governent fret over chatbots, the real money lies in embedding the tech in productivity apps, the way MS, ADOBE, and others are doing.
“AI” is not a product, but a *feature*, which makes all the regulatory pearl clutching meaningless. Are they going to analyze ten thousand different features in a thousand different apps, each aimed at a different user base? When the same tech is floating all over the internet?
An old mantra from the early PC days is worth reviving: “People don’t buy tech, they buy solutions.” How software works doesn’t matter, only what problems they solve for users. Everything else is tech demos and religion.
Not just idiots, blind idiots.
Does anyone with half a brain think these CEOs are going to think about “protecting and advancing society” even half as much as they will about protecting and advancing their companies?