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🤖 Elon Musk Warns Congress of AI Risks
PLUS: Amazon Launches Product Description Tool
James Roesser
September 14, 2023
Welcome back AI enthusiasts!
In today’s AI Report:
🚧Elon Musk Warns Congress of AI Risks
📦Amazon Launches Product Description Tool
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
AI SAFETY
🚧Elon Musk Warns Congress of AI Risks
Elon Musk warned senators during the AI Insight Forum in Washington of the civilizational risks posed by AI systems.
Key Details:
This three-hour private meeting was held on Wednesday with lawmakers about the future regulations of AI models.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Google’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Tesla’s Elon Musk provided a crash course for Congress on the impacts of this technology on civilians.
As Musk exited the Capitol, he endorsed the idea of a new federal agency to oversee AI and explained to a reporter: “The consequences of AI going wrong are severe. So, we have to be proactive rather than reactive. The question is one of civilizational risk.”
Zuckerberg released prepared remarks after the meeting: “I agree that Congress should engage with AI to support innovation and safeguards. This is an emerging technology; there are important equities to balance here, and the government is ultimately responsible for that.”
Why It’s Important:
The government needs to balance the innovation side of AI with building the proper safeguards.
AI regulations should be as light as possible. The only purpose for regulations should be to encourage rapid development, adoption, and innovation of AI models and discourage bad actors from leveraging this technology to harm others.
Instead of prioritizing AI regulations, the government should focus on preparing society for a post-AI/AGI economy.
AMAZON
📦Amazon Launches Product Description Tool
Amazon unveiled a new set of generative AI tools that simplify the product listing process for sellers.
Key Details:
Amazon’s new AI capabilities are designed to help sellers generate “captivating product descriptions, titles, and listing details” in seconds.
These AI tools were built using Large Language Models (LMMs) trained with Amazon’s listing data, like product information engagement.
Robert Tekiela, Vice President of Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems, stated: “With our generative AI models, we can infer, improve, and enrich product knowledge at an unprecedented scale and with dramatic improvement in quality, performance, and efficiency.”
Amazon’s AI model learns to infer product details through diverse sources of information, latent knowledge, and logical reasoning. For example, the AI model can determine the shape of a table if the product description lists measurements.
Why It’s Important:
Amazon believes generative AI tools will allow sellers to improve efficiency and enable customers to find more complete product information. However, using these models at scale raises concerns about “hallucinations”—a confident response by an AI tool that generates false information not based on real data.
These AI tools could create incorrect product listings and descriptions. Amazon could be liable, especially if it doesn’t disclose that the listings were enhanced using AI.
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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
EY launches an AI platform and LLM software after a $1.4B investment.
Treefera raises $2.2M to solve the carbon credits credibility problem with AI.
HiddenLayer raises $50M for its AI-defending cybersecurity tools.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Visa (Remote): Senior Product Manager, AI/ML Platform
Hugging Face (Remote): Senior Technical Sourcer, Machine Learning
Apple (Seattle, WA): Senior iOS Engineer, Siri and Information Intelligence
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