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PLUS: California Proposes AI Regulation “SB 1047,” The $16,000 Mass Production Humanoid Robot

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James Roesser
August 20, 2024

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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🏛California Proposes AI Regulation “SB 1047”

  • 🧠Creating AI Models With Human Brain Cells

  • 🦾The $16,000 Mass Production Humanoid Robot

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI AND REGULATION

🏛California Proposes AI Regulation “SB 1047”

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California State Senator of District 11 Scott Wiener proposed “SB 1047,” an aggressive AI safety regulation framework that faces backlash from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Key Details:

  • “SB 1047” proactively aims to prevent Large Language Models (LLMs) from causing “critical harms” against humanity.

  • It imposes transparency obligations that require developers to disclose technical details about their LLMs.

  • It also forces developers to add emergency stop buttons that turn off LLMs in seconds.

  • “SB 1047” creates a new enforcement agency called the Board of Frontier Models (BFM).

  • A developer’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) must submit an annual report to the BFM outlining the company’s AI safety protocols and AI developments.

  • If an “AI safety incident” occurs, the developer must report it to the BFM within 72 hours of learning about it.

Why It’s Important:

  • “We have a history with technology of waiting for harms to happen,” said Wiener. “Let’s not wait for something bad to happen. Let’s get out ahead of it.”

  • OpenAI and Anthropic argue that “SB 1047” prematurely stifles innovation by supporting a robust regulatory regime for AI developments before the technology causes harm.

  • Geopolitical observers note that overly cautionary regulation may give China the time to usurp the U.S. in the AI arms race.

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FINALSPARK

🧠Creating AI Models With Human Brain Cells

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FinalSpark officially launched “Neuroplatform,” an online system that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to access biological processors with live brain cells for computing.

Key Details:

  • Neuroplatform combines traditional computer parts with living brain cells, rewarding the “organoids” with dopamine when generating correct outputs to train AI models.

  • Neuroplatform leverages 16 “organoids” to process information and perform calculations while consuming a “million times less power than traditional digital processors.”

  • FinalSpark’s “organoids” can live and compute for up to 100 days.

  • “Organoids” are cell clusters grown in a lab to resemble parts of the human brain.

  • “Biocomputing” harnesses the processing power of the “organoids” to communicate through complex electrical signals.

Why It’s Important:

  • AI is an energy-intensive industry, and alleviating its dependence on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Central Processing Units (CPUs), or Neural Networks (NNs) is generally a step in the right direction.

  • Compared to traditional digital processors, “Neuroplatform” leverages biological processors in the brain cells, which are inherently more efficient than silicon-based computing.

🚨FinalSpark’s “Neuroplatform” and the “organoids” are live-streamed here.

UNITREE ROBOTICS

🦾The $16,000 Mass Production Humanoid Robot

Unitree Robotics unveiled “Unitree G1,” a humanoid robot that autonomously performs unsafe, repetitive, or tedious tasks.

“Unitree G1” boasts 23 to 34 joint motors with impressive speed, dexterity, and balance.

Additional features include a flexible neck, integrated electronics, and joint position encoders that aim to mimic natural human movements.

“Unitree G1” uses the Unitree Robot Unified Large Model (UnifoLM) to make decisions based on sensory inputs and learned knowledge.

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