Open-Source AI: A Chance for European Innovation
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Open-Source AI: A Chance for European Innovation

Live Mint  

Europe should embrace open-source AI to create a more level playing field and foster innovation. The open-source AI model, developed by Meta, is a powerful tool that can help artists and creators discover new opportunities. However, the current regulatory structure in Europe is hindering innovation and holding back developers. Open-source AI can help to address this issue and create a more sustainable and equitable tech ecosystem. By simplifying and harmonizing regulations, Europe can unlock the full potential of open-source AI and create a thriving tech industry that benefits everyone.

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Why open-source AI models are good for the world
4 days, 5 hours ago

Why open-source AI models are good for the world

Live Mint  

Open innovation lies at the heart of the artificial-intelligence boom. Models that are “open-source"—ie, that make underlying code available to all, to remix and reuse as they please—are often seen as dangerous. Anthropic, a model-maker, has called for urgent regulation, warning about the “unique" risks of open models, such as their ability to be “fine-tuned" using data on, say, making …

Where AI dies: Europe’s AI progress ‘insufficient’ to compete with US & China, says report
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Where AI dies: Europe’s AI progress ‘insufficient’ to compete with US & China, says report

Firstpost  

Despite some notable European companies like France’s AI firm Mistral, critical components of the AI supply chain, such as semiconductor and graphics processing unit manufacturing, remain underdeveloped in the region Another pressing issue is Europe’s brain drain, with skilled AI professionals increasingly migrating to American companies. Despite some notable European companies like France’s AI firm Mistral, critical components of the …

EU publishes first draft of regulatory guidance for AI Act covering transparency, copyright and risk assessment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

EU publishes first draft of regulatory guidance for AI Act covering transparency, copyright and risk assessment

Firstpost  

The EU’s AI Act, which officially went into effect on August 1, laid the foundation for these new guidelines. However, there were gaps left in regulating more complex AI systems At the heart of this draft are rules around transparency, copyright, risk assessment, and governance. File Image The European Union has released the first draft of its Code of Practice …

The world is not ready for the next huge development in AI, says departing OpenAI researcher
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The world is not ready for the next huge development in AI, says departing OpenAI researcher

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The world is not ready for AGI, or the point at which artificial …

White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now
5 months, 1 week ago

White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now

Associated Press  

The White House is coming out in favor of “open-source” artificial intelligence technology, arguing in a report Tuesday that there’s no need right now for restrictions on companies making key components of their powerful AI systems widely available. “We continue to have concerns about AI safety, but this report reflects a more balanced view that shows that there are real …

European Union’s competition boss signals fresh AI scrutiny for Microsoft-OpenAI deal and Google
6 months, 1 week ago

European Union’s competition boss signals fresh AI scrutiny for Microsoft-OpenAI deal and Google

Associated Press  

LONDON — The European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry, including taking a fresh look into Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, a top EU official said Friday. We stand ready to respond to any additional questions the European Commission may have.” “We support the Commission’s goal of keeping the AI industry competitive and innovative, and look …

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they're reducing generative AI risks
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they're reducing generative AI risks

The Hindu  

European Union regulators on Thursday ratcheted up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok with requests for information on how they're dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes. The European Commission, the EU's executive branch, has sent questionnaires about the ways that eight platforms and search engines — including Microsoft's …

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they’re reducing generative AI risks
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they’re reducing generative AI risks

Associated Press  

LONDON — European Union regulators on Thursday ratcheted up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok with requests for information on how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, has sent questionnaires about the ways that eight platforms and search engines — …

Today’s Cache | EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval; OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year; U.S. moves closer towards TikTok ban
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Today’s Cache | EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval; OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year; U.S. moves closer towards TikTok ban

The Hindu  

EU’s AI Rules get lawmaker approval Five years after the European Union’s AI Act regulations were proposed, EU lawmakers have given their final approval to the bloc’s AI law, and voted in favour of it. OpenAI’s Sora to become available this year OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, Sora, is likely to be released to most users within a few months, according to …

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
10 months ago

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

Associated Press  

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research. It’s too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, The New York Times and bestselling novelists such …

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it

LA Times  

ChatGPT replicates New York Times articles nearly verbatim, a lawsuit by the newspaper claims. “It’s legally required.” Meanwhile, a fiery study recently published in IEEE Spectrum, co-written by the cognitive scientist and AI expert Gary Marcus and the film industry veteran Reid Southern, shows that Midjourney and Dall-E, two of the leading AI image generators, were trained on copyrighted material, …

Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation
1 year ago

Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation

Hindustan Times  

TWO THINGS European lawmakers should get credit for our stamina and an extraordinary tolerance for bad food. Representatives of the EU Parliament, member governments and the European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, spent nearly 40 hours in a dark meeting room in Brussels until the wee hours of December 9th hashing out a deal on the AI Act, Europe’s ground-breaking …

AI companies can be innovative and responsible: Markham Erickson, Google executive
1 year, 1 month ago

AI companies can be innovative and responsible: Markham Erickson, Google executive

Hindustan Times  

Regulating artificial intelligence does not need to be a binary choice between self-regulation by companies and strict legal guardrails prescribed by governments, and AI companies can be innovative while behaving responsibly, a top Google executive said on Wednesday. In an interview with HT, Markham Erickson, vice president, government affairs and public policy at Google’s Centers for Excellence, shared the company’s …

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators
1 year, 1 month ago

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

Associated Press  

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. The AI Alliance — led by IBM and Meta and including Dell, Sony, chipmakers AMD and Intel and several universities and AI startups — is “coming together to articulate, simply put, that …

Red-tape Wishlist: Biden’a AI executive getting backlash from tech companies and researchers alike
1 year, 2 months ago

Red-tape Wishlist: Biden’a AI executive getting backlash from tech companies and researchers alike

Firstpost  

US President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI is getting a lot of backlash from both, tech companies and researchers working to make AI safer. The Executive Order, AI companies believe is bringing a lot of unnecessary red-tape into the process and is very vague to be effective US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that immediately set some …

Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI’s potentially ‘catastrophic’ risks
1 year, 2 months ago

Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI’s potentially ‘catastrophic’ risks

Associated Press  

BLETCHLEY PARK, England — Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, agreed Wednesday to work together to contain the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence. The first international AI Safety Summit, held at a former codebreaking spy base near London, focused on cutting-edge “frontier” AI that some scientists warn could pose a risk to …

Biden announces ‘strongest’ regulations yet to ensure safety of AI
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden announces ‘strongest’ regulations yet to ensure safety of AI

Al Jazeera  

Developers of powerful AI will have to share safety results and critical information with the US government. “In the wrong hands, AI can make it easier for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in the software that makes our society run.” The executive order includes a provision that developers of the most powerful AI models must notify the government of their work …

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved
1 year, 2 months ago

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved

LA Times  

When novelist Douglas Preston first started messing around with ChatGPT, he gave the AI software a challenge: Could it write an original poem based on a character from some of his books? “That was a very disturbing feeling,” Preston said, “not unlike coming home and finding that someone’s been in your house and taken things.” Those worries led Preston to …

German antitrust head warns AI may boost Big Tech's dominance
1 year, 3 months ago

German antitrust head warns AI may boost Big Tech's dominance

The Hindu  

The head of Germany's cartel office has warned that artificial intelligence may boost Big Tech's market power and regulators should be on the lookout for any anti-competitive behaviour. The comments by Andreas Mundt underscore regulatory concerns that tech giants, with their vast troves of user data, may get a competitive edge in the new technology used in smart homes, web …

AI bots need consent to use our material, say news groups
1 year, 5 months ago

AI bots need consent to use our material, say news groups

The Hindu  

Artificial intelligence firms must ask for permission before using copyrighted text and images to generate content, a consortium of news groups said on Wednesday. Media organisations including AFP, Getty Images and the Associated Press said in an open letter that AI tools risk shattering their business models, flooding the web with misinformation and breaking copyright laws. AI tools like chatbot …

Major tech companies partner with US government for ethical AI innovation
1 year, 5 months ago

Major tech companies partner with US government for ethical AI innovation

India TV News  

Seven major artificial intelligence tech companies, including Google, OpenAI, and Meta, have come together to forge an agreement with the Joe Biden administration to address the risks associated with AI technology. "As we develop new AI models, tech companies should be transparent about how their systems work and collaborate closely across industry, government, academia and civil society," he added. In …

U.S. tech giants OpenAI, Google agree on White House Artificial Intelligence safeguards
1 year, 5 months ago

U.S. tech giants OpenAI, Google agree on White House Artificial Intelligence safeguards

The Hindu  

Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said on Friday. Since generative AI, which uses data to create new content like ChatGPT's human-sounding prose, became wildly popular this year, lawmakers around the world …

As the negotiation phase of Europe’s AI Act begins, both questions and praise pour in
1 year, 5 months ago

As the negotiation phase of Europe’s AI Act begins, both questions and praise pour in

The Hindu  

On June 14, the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position on the draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which takes a risk-based approach to regulating AI, going from minimal, limited, and high to unacceptable risk. “The EU AI Act is a bold legislation rooted in fundamental rights that provides citizen-centric protection,” Gaurav Sharma, AI adviser for the German Agency for International …

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Opening Office In London, Expanding Beyond The US
1 year, 6 months ago

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Opening Office In London, Expanding Beyond The US

ABP News  

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is opening its first non-US office in London and it "signifies a milestone" in OpenAI’s growth, the company has said. According to the company, London’s "vibrant technology" ecosystem and its exceptional talent make it the ideal location for OpenAI’s first international office. “We are thrilled to extend our research and development footprint into London, a city globally …

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI 'Influenced' EU For Weaker AI Rules: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI 'Influenced' EU For Weaker AI Rules: Report

ABP News  

Even as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been calling for stricter regulation of artificial intelligence for months, the creator of ChatGPT has been lobbying the European Union to reduce regulations for AI. According to a report by Time, OpenAI has been lobbying the EU to reduce particular sections of the AI Act before it becomes a law. It With this, …

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI
1 year, 6 months ago

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

Associated Press  

LONDON — Lawmakers in Europe signed off Wednesday on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence, clearing a key hurdle as authorities across the globe race to rein in AI. “The EU is set to become a leader in regulating artificial intelligence, but whether it will lead on AI innovation still remains to be seen,” said Boniface …

With new legislation, Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI
1 year, 6 months ago

With new legislation, Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

LA Times  

Authorities worldwide are racing to rein in artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. Lawmakers in Europe signed off Wednesday on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence, clearing a key hurdle as authorities across the globe race to rein in AI. That’s what China does, not us,” Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian member of the European Parliament who is …

OpenAI CEO suggests international agency like UN's nuclear watchdog could oversee AI
1 year, 7 months ago

OpenAI CEO suggests international agency like UN's nuclear watchdog could oversee AI

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Artificial intelligence poses an “existential …

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation
1 year, 7 months ago

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation

Associated Press  

LONDON — The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday. EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability of a new generation of AI chatbots to create complex content and …

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation
1 year, 7 months ago

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability …

Biden, Harris meet with CEOs about AI risks
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden, Harris meet with CEOs about AI risks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — 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. But the White House also needs to take stronger action as AI systems built …

Column: Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be

LA Times  

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman speaks to the media Feb. 7 about the integration of the Microsoft Bing search engine and Edge browser with OpenAI. OpenAI is behind the buzziest and most popular AI service, the text generator ChatGPT, and its technology currently powers Microsoft’s new AI-infused Bing search engine, the product of a deal worth $10 billion. The blog …

Reeling AI in: European Union lawmakers plan to reach common, unified position on draft AI rules
1 year, 11 months ago

Reeling AI in: European Union lawmakers plan to reach common, unified position on draft AI rules

Firstpost  

The EU has been trying to finalise a set of legislation for AI applications, and tech businesses developing AI bots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dalle2 and Google’s BardAI. Lawmakers in the European Union plan to come up with a basic set of draft rules for tech companies dealing with artificial intelligence sometime next month. One source of debate is the …

Facebook warns of threats to innovation, freedom of expression ahead of EU rules
4 years, 10 months ago

Facebook warns of threats to innovation, freedom of expression ahead of EU rules

Firstpost  

In a meeting on 19 February, EU is expected to propose rules to govern the use of AI especially in high-risk sectors such as healthcare and transport. Facebook warned of threats to innovation and freedom of expression on Monday, ahead of the release of a raft of rules by the European Union this week and in the coming months to …

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