🇮🇹 ¡Benvenuto, ChatGPT!

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🧵 In today's edition:

• 🇮🇹 ¡Benvenuto, ChatGPT!

• 💻 Microsoft adds to its suite

• 🫡 US takes the first step toward Federal AI regulation

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

🤖 Top AI News

🇮🇹 ¡Benvenuto, ChatGPT!

Italy welcomes ChatGPT back with open arms after previously banning it due to concerns raised by Italian regulators surrounding data privacy and the absence of age filters.

OpenAI was given 20 days to address the issue, and they responded with some meaningful changes:

• This is a form that EU users can submit to remove their data under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

• A new tool will be deployed to help verify all user ages in Italy.

• Released a help doc that explains how data is collected and used.

This is a big win for Italian regulators, and it sets a precedent that other countries can follow regarding protecting citizen data. Spain and Canada recently joined the mix, opening their own investigations into how OpenAI uses and protects user data.

All signs point in the right direction for AI's safe and trustworthy development.

Read more: The Verge

💻 Microsoft adds to its suite

Do you remember feeling ⭐️ creative ⭐️ when you used those OG Microsoft WordArt titles?

I feel like I just lost everyone born after 2005.

Well, you might have a chance to experience something similar again. Microsoft is launching Designer, a Canva-inspired web app working with DALL-E 2 that allows you to “generate designs for presentations, posters, digital postcards, invitations, graphics, and more.”

It will also include the ability to generate captions and hashtags for your social media posts, plus create animated visuals, all powered by AI.

This is just V1. Microsoft has also teased future functionality, including “erase” and “replace background” options, allowing you to manipulate images without leaving the editing environment.

Designer is currently in its preview period and will remain free - for now. As you would’ve guessed, it will live within the Microsoft 365 environment upon release, so you will have to whip out some $$$ to continue using the service.

Read more: TechCrunch

🫡 US takes the first step toward Federal AI regulation

Inspired by the immense progress of the EU’s AI Act, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet proposed a new bill - to create a Federal AI Task Force in the US.

Their main objective? To identify risks and minimize civil liberty and privacy issues associated with AI. They will work for 18 months and issue a report providing policy recommendations.

If the Task Force gets created, however, they will have to move at a much faster clip to keep up with the pace of AI progress, considering we went from OpenAI’s chatbot to Palantir’s AIP planning potential attacks in 4 months.

Apart from the Task Force, US lawmakers continue to work to make AI safer and more trustworthy.

A new law, the Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act, was proposed to prohibit using Federal funds to launch a nuclear weapon using an autonomous system without meaningful human control.

To calm you down, yes, this was already banned before.

So why the bill? Great question. As it turns out, the reason was to encourage China and Russia to make similar commitments to ban autonomous nuclear weapons launches.

Politics remains undefeated 😏

Read more: The Verge | Gizmodo

🤑 AI Fundraising News

Dori Raises $2M - an Atlanta, GA-based provider of a generative AI platform for private market transactions.

AI, Automation Platform Ctrl Secures $9M - the workspace that helps Revenue teams “supercharge” their CRM and customer workflows with advanced automation, AI tools, and integrations

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.

Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa [TechCrunch] -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that Amazon is building an improved large language model (LLM) to power Alexa. Jassy believes with LLM and generative AI, it will be possible to make the world's best personal assistant. (Read more)

VentureBeat is the latest publication to use AI in its articles [Engadget] -
Media outlets are incorporating generative AI, like Bing Chat, ChatGPT, and Google Bard, into their editorial workflows, with VentureBeat using Microsoft's Bing Chat tool to edit and write articles. Ethical concerns exist concerning plagiarism, basic accuracy, and cheating, as well as transparency and trust in disclosing the use of AI-generated content. (Read more)

🐦️ Tweet of the day

Pretty cool video + an excellent primer on Runway’s Gen-1 🤖

And that does it for today's issue.

As always, thanks for reading. Have a great day, and see you next time! ✌️

— Haroon: (definitely) Not A Robot and @haroonchoudery on Twitter