• The GPT Store is finally live! It’s time to explore all the different chatbots people have created, from coding assistants to hike assistants. - OpenAI
• Duolingo joins multiple other tech companies by offboarding 10% contractors (with no full-time employee changes) due to the productivity increase provided by AI – the freelance job market seems to be feeling the effects of AI the most. - Bloomberg
• Stats from the largest survey of AI researchers to date:
–Machines have a 10% chance to outperform us at every possible task by 2027, and 50% by 2047.
–68.3% researchers thought good outcomes from superhuman AI are more likely than bad.
–Most agreed that research aimed at minimizing potential risks from AI systems should be prioritized more. - arXiv
• Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are among multiple companies that offer their clients indemnity from copyright infringement lawsuits – these indemnities “make people think ‘I can use this without worrying’,” but are in fact “very narrowly focused and defined.”
–On the other hand, legal claims against users of genAI tools might be challenging to win anyway. In previous cases, artists had a tough time defending their claims without presenting AI-generated content that’s “substantially similar” to copyrighted content. - Financial Times
• FOX has launched Verify, a blockchain-powered “protocol for media companies to register content and grant usage rights to AI platforms, while also allowing end consumers to verify the origin of content”. - Verify
• Pennsylvania adopts ChatGPT Enterprise in a first-of-its-kind initiative – the collaboration will also provide feedback to OpenAI about how their tech can best help government employees in daily operations, the first usage areas described are writing content and code, rewriting policies to be more accessible, addressing policy document issues, and more. - Pennsylvania
• NVIDIAs new consumer-grade GPUs have been built to run AI locally – yet another confirmation that AI processing is very quickly moving from the cloud to edge devices. - CNBC
• AI and high-performance cloud computing accelerates materials discoveries once again – in just a few weeks (would have taken years without AI) a new battery material was discovered, showcasing that AI is ushering in a new era of rapid scientific discovery. - Microsoft
• Walmart is integrating genAI into its online search for a personalized and intuitive shopping experience – it’s designed to understand customer queries contextually and generate personalized responses. - Microsoft
