🔎 The New Look Bard

🧵 In today's edition:

• 🔎 The new look Bard

• 🇺🇸 White House wants customer information

• 🪬 Bill Gurley rips into AI regulation

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

🔎 The new look Bard

Google has taken Bard’s capabilities to soaring heights.

TL;DR: Bard has become more intuitive, imaginative, and responsive than ever before. Users can now:

• Embark on creative collaborations.

• Seamlessly switch between over 40 languages.

• Get top-of-line coding assistance.

• Explore diverse perspectives on new topics with unmatched precision and quality.

Here’s what we are talking about:

• Access real-time Google magic

  • Bard is now a gateway to real-time information from Google's troves – Maps, YouTube, Hotels, and Flights. Plus, these extensions are automatically enabled for convenience.

• Collaboration in Google Workspace

  • Bard's English prowess extends to Gmail, Docs, and Drive, allowing users to find, summarize, and answer questions within their personal data.

    P.S: Google Workspace data remains private, and users retain complete control over the interaction.

• Double-check your Google response

  • Doubt Bard's AI-generated responses? Google It v2, powered by Google Search, steps in. When Bard's statement raises questions, it's highlighted for scrutiny. Just click it to delve deeper.

• Multilingual enhancements for all

  • Bard's expanded capabilities include:

    • Image uploads via Google Lens.

    • Google Search images in responses.

    • Customizable responses in all supported languages.

Overall: Bard's latest upgrade is a testament to the power of innovation, collaboration, and user feedback. What a time to be Google.

Read more: Google Bard

🇺🇸 White House wants customer information

Big news alert: An upcoming White House executive order may require cloud computing giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to divulge customer information to the U.S. government.

Specifically, they would need to report when customers purchase computing resources above a certain threshold, analogous to "know-your-customer" policies in banking to combat illegal activities.

The reason? To establish a system for early identification of potential AI threats, especially those emanating from foreign entities.

However, there are some concerns:

• Critics warn it could resemble a surveillance program if not meticulously implemented.

• Assessing computing usage would require cloud firms to scrutinize their customers, potentially creating conflicts of interest.

• There's concern that this policy focuses solely on LLMs and neglects other AI tools like facial recognition algorithms, which require less compute but can be equally harmful.

Overall: In the larger context, this move aligns with the initiatives of companies OpenAI and the RAND Corporation, which advocate for "know-your-customer" mechanisms as a means to curb malicious AI utilization.

But the White House executive order may need a bit more nuance if wants to successfully regulate AI from a holistic point of view.

Read more: Semafor

🪬 Bill Gurley rips into AI regulation

VC Bill Gurley took the stage at the All-In Summit in LA last week and ignited AI Twitter with one statement:

"Regulation is the friend of the incumbent!"

In a presentation titled "2,851 Miles" (referring to the distance between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.), Gurley delved into the perilous realm of "regulatory capture.”

His argument? Promising innovations have often collided with the interests of industry incumbents partnered with powerful lobbyists.

• Gurley cited Tropos Networks, a company that provided free citywide Wi-Fi and was embraced by mayors but faced fierce opposition from corporate giants like Verizon and Comcast, who championed regulations to protect their interests.

• Gurley spotlighted similar concerns in the AI space about regulatory capture, referencing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's call for AI regulation and the ongoing debate surrounding open-source AI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4.

• Gurley also emphasized the importance of preserving innovation to safeguard prosperity, especially given the rise in popularity of open-source models.

Overall: He closed with a call for "massive transparency" in government, stressing the need for greater visibility into political funding.

His talk underscored the critical intersection of innovation, regulation, and the future of technology, sparking essential conversations about finding the right equilibrium between openness and control in the AI domain.

Read more: Yahoo News

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🤑 AI Fundraising News

• Darrow raises $35M in Series B funding for an AI that parses public documents for class action lawsuit potential.

• Secoda raises $14M in Series A funding to create a platform that automates data discovery and documentation efforts by ingesting metadata from all data sources, making it easy for data teams to make decisions from a single system.

👀 MLOps Community - LLMs in Production

Looking for the ultimate AI experience? Look no further! The MLOps community proudly presents "LLMs in Production - Part 3," an exceptional online event gathering the brightest minds from startups to enterprises.

Here's what awaits you:

• 🎯 Immerse yourself in the most in-depth technical conference in the ML Ops arena.

• 😄 Enjoy the most engaging online event ever – it's 100% free!

• 🌟 Delve into insights from 40+ expert speakers, including industry giants like NVIDIA and Google and cutting-edge stealth startups.

• 🎶 Relish musical interludes, guided meditation, and prompt injection games during breaks.

This event is custom-crafted to address the common challenges faced by engineers, researchers, and product owners when navigating the world of LLM production.

Don't miss out – save the date for October 3rd! 🗓️

🗞️ AI Quick-Bytes

What else is going on?

• Writers strike negotiations hung up on language over AI.

• My computer science classes were too slow, so I dropped out to focus on my AI startup.

• The Google Pixel 8’s latest leak shows off big AI camera updates.

• NASA’s Mars rovers could inspire a more ethical future for AI.

• The NFL and Amazon are using AI to invent new football stats.

• Microsoft’s mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features.

• Microsoft Bing to gain more personalized answers, support for DALLE-E 3, and watermarked AI images

• Amazon restricts authors to self-publishing three books a day, a totally human amount.
  

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