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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• The state of AI safety in 2023 🚀 🤖 

  An in-depth look at AI safety news headlines from May to now.

• Will AI detectors actually work soon? 🔍 🕵️‍♂️

  Ex-Goldman Sachs VP’s AI-detection startup gets $15 million.

• Is GPT-4 getting faster? 🏎️ 💨 

  A study shows that GPT-4 and 3.5’s response times are both around 1 millisecond per token.

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An in-depth 2023 AI safety recap 🚨 🦹‍♂️

We’re going for a scenic drive through the recent history of AI policy-making. Buckle up.

On May 2, we reported on Geoffrey Hinton’s departure from Google. The Godfather of AI claimed his reason was to warn the world about AI’s danger.

A couple of days later, we covered The White House’s AI safety meeting. The CEOs of Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and more came to discuss the short-term risks of AI.

In June, the Center for AI Safety published its official Statement on AI Safety. Over 350 prominent AI figures co-signed the statement.

The whole thing could fit on a napkin:

A couple of weeks later, the European Parliament passed the EU AI Act. This meant a ban on AI in biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, predictive policing, and more.

In July, The White House brokered a voluntary agreement between the top AI firms. The companies agreed to invest in cybersecurity, discrimination research, and AI watermarking systems.

Then we covered the popular, malicious AI tool — FraudGPT. It’s like ChatGPT, but without the safety guardrails. It’s the perfect tool for seedy cybercriminal activities.

In August, we reported The White House’s “AI Cyber Challenge” — it was a hackathon to create AI that finds and fixes security vulnerabilities. There were over $20 million in prizes for winners.

A couple of days later, the Department of Defense launched its Generative AI Task Force. Its purpose is to adopt AI to enhance national security.

In September, OpenAI launched its Red Teaming Network. The purpose was to hire security experts to evaluate and test their AI models.

Fast-forward to last Friday, we covered The Space Force’s ban on web-based AI tools. It was allegedly to protect data while AI policies are put in place.

*Stops to catch breath 🤖💨

Yesterday, the Biden administration announced restrictions on China’s access to AI chips. 

I can’t believe I read all of that... Biden did what?

His administration’s new restrictions now require U.S. firms to obtain more licenses to sell AI chips or manufacturing equipment to China.

Why?

The Biden administration believes these measures are crucial to hinder China from enhancing its domestic chip production.

Who does this affect?

The primary restrictions primarily target tech with potential military applications, like hypersonic missiles and surveillance systems, but could also hamper China’s thriving commercial AI sector.

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Will money make AI detection tools work?🕵️‍♂️

In July, we covered OpenAI silently disabling its AI detection tool. 

RIP. 🪦

Yesterday, Reality Defender raised $15 million — it’s a startup that develops DeepFake/synthetic media detection tools. The funding will go to improve its models that identify AI-generated media.

Another AI startup got money. Why do I care?

Reality Defender, founded by ex-Goldman Sachs VP Ben Colman and partners, helps governments, big financial firms, and more identify and stop AI-generated content.

What makes this different from OpenAI’s trashy tool?

Its ensemble method uses a variety of data to lessen bias during detection. It claims to achieve a higher accuracy rate compared to its rivals, though it doesn’t give any evidence of this.

It also claims to utilize deep learning models to identify manipulated media through a web app, an API, and “custom solutions.”

Whatever that means.

Our take: OpenAI’s disabled tool labeled The Declaration of Independence as AI-generated. Despite the funding and OpenAI’s failure, Reality Defender faces an uphill battle in proving how effective its tools are against rapidly advancing generative AI.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Is GPT-4 getting faster? 🏎️ 💨

In July, we covered a study by Stanford that claimed ChatGPT’s quality was degrading.

It got dumber. 🤤

On Monday, Portkey published a study that shows GPT-4’s speed is improving, almost catching up with GPT 3.5.

Portkey is a startup that helps businesses develop and improve their generative AI apps and features.

I’m not going to read it, what are the takeaways?

Latency is the time it takes for an AI to respond to a request. This study shows that GPT-4’s latencies have more than halved in three months.

The median latencies, for both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, remain consistently under 1 millisecond per token.

So what’s better, 3.5 Turbo or GPT-4?

It depends if you want to pay or not. Portkey claims that despite being costlier, GPT-4’s comparable speed for the majority of requests makes it a more viable option.

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An interview with NVIDIA’s CEO. He explains the times he bet the entire company, his early strategy with the company, and more.

Startup News

Stack Overflow fired 28% of its workforce. The company claims generative AI is to blame for its drop in traffic.

Riffusion, an AI music generator app, gets $4 million in funding. It creates music by using images of audio.

Nirvana, an AI insurance startup, raised $57 million. The money will go to developing effective, affordable commercial trucking insurance with AI.

Research

6DRepNet360 — an open-source technique to more accurately which way a person’s head is facing.

Ex-MCR — a new method that achieves state-of-the-art performance in audiovisual and 3D object classification tasks.

SupFusion — a technique that combines LiDAR and camera systems with AI to better detect and identify objects.

Tools

Expresso — an AI tool that monitors and improves employees’ mental health.

Stable Audio Tools — training and inference code for Stability’s audio generation models.

CapCut for Business — AI script generation, characters, and more for video.

DataGPT — a conversational AI data analysis.

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Until next time 🤖😋🧠