🤖 Petition to pause AI progress signed by 1,100 people 🖋️

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🧵 In today's edition:

• 🖋️ Petition to pause AI progress signed by 1,100 people

• 🤑 Hiring an ‘AI Whisperer’ for $335,000

• 💰 AI Fundraising News

🤖 Top AI News

🖋️ Petition to pause AI progress signed by 1,100 people

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and over 1,100 other signatories have signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on training powerful AI models.

Why, you ask? The goal is to give us some breathing room to develop safety and ethics protocols for this rapidly advancing technology. With the recent release of several large AI models, chatbots, and image generators, the letter specifically calls out OpenAI and asks for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

It remains to be seen whether this will impact OpenAI's operations (let's be honest, probably not), but it's a clear sign of just how quickly AI is advancing. It's exciting to see what the future holds for this technology, but it's also important to make sure we're using it safely and ethically. Here's hoping this call for a moratorium helps us do just that.

Read more: Semafor

🤑 Hiring an ‘AI Whisperer’ for $335,000

Did you know there's a new type of job in town paying some serious cash? People make upwards of $335,000 a year by helping companies train their employees to use AI tools. And get this - you don't need a computer engineering degree to get in on the action!

These "prompt engineers" distill complex concepts into simple, easy-to-understand language. So whether you studied history, philosophy, or the English language, you might have what it takes to excel in this role.

Big players like Google, Netflix, and Microsoft are driving up salaries, and the launch of various AI chatbots only adds to the excitement. But some caution that the industry's rapid growth is reminiscent of the hype around blockchain and cryptocurrency. There's a risk that the job market is getting ahead of the technology.

All in all, it's an exciting time to be in the AI industry. Who knows where this technology will take us next?

Read more: Bloomberg

💰 AI Fundraising News

Stratyfy Raises $10M - a New York-based provider of machine learning solutions for financial institutions

Deep Render Raises $9M - a London-based machine learning startup focused on shrinking video sizes

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UK to avoid fixed rules for AI – in favor of ‘context-specific guidance’ - The UK government will use "context-specific guidance" for AI, with existing regulators applying five principles - safety, security, transparency, fairness, and accountability - to address AI risks in accordance with current laws. This approach contrasts with the EU's risk-based framework, which prohibits certain AI users upfront. (Read more)

Red Teaming Improved GPT-4. Violet Teaming Goes Even Further - The article introduces AI red teaming and violet teaming. Red teaming tests AI systems for unintended harms, while violet teaming uses AI to defend public goods. Governments should incentivize both, and companies should establish independent governance for democratic decision-making. (Read more)

The US government is gearing up for an AI antitrust fight - US regulators are keeping a close eye on AI to prevent anti-competitive practices, with the FTC and DOJ's antitrust division expressing concern about large companies using AI to monopolize markets and protect their dominance. The FTC is also attempting to regulate emerging tech industries and may soon sue Amazon. (Read more)

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