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🤖 Nations Unite to Form AI Safety Protocols
PLUS: Amazon’s Using AI for Holiday Shopping
James Roesser
November 29, 2023
Welcome back AI enthusiasts!
In today’s AI Report:
🦺Nations Unite to Form AI Safety Protocols
🛍Amazon’s Using AI for Holiday Shopping
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
Read Time: 3 minutes
🗞RECENT NEWS
GOVERNMENT POLICY
🦺Nations Unite to Form AI Safety Protocols
Image Source: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
The U.S., Britain, Poland, and 15 other countries unveiled the first detailed international agreement addressing how to prevent rogue actors from abusing AI systems to inflict harm.
Key Details:
The 20-page document outlines how companies must design, develop, and deploy AI models to protect customers and the broader public from misuse.
The agreement is non-binding and provides general recommendations like monitoring AI systems for abuse, data tampering, or cybersecurity threats.
Jen Easterly, Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, believes that nations are in “agreement that the most important thing that needs to be done at the design phase is security.”
Why It’s Important:
This agreement is the latest attempt in a series of initiatives by government agencies to shape the development of AI systems.
The government is leveraging the fear of AI models disrupting the democratic process and turbocharging fraud to create initiatives supervising the development of Large Language Models (LLMs).
Granting governments the authority to monitor the private sector’s development of AI systems and mandate companies to submit reports on how they train AI models could hinder innovation.
AMAZON
🛍Amazon’s Using AI for Holiday Shopping
Image Source: Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images
Amazon is deploying AI features throughout the shopping process to make it seamless and convenient for customers.
Key Details:
The online retail giant is using AI to improve holiday shopping and enhance delivery rates in several ways:
Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT): utilizes deep learning and massive data sets to forecast daily demand for over 400 million products.
Mobile Industrial Robots: AI-enabled robots in warehouses equipped with machine vision to recognize, sort, and inspect the quality of diverse goods.
Package Sorting: an AI-enhanced vision system sorts packages based on box size and weight at delivery stations to optimize loading trucks.
Route Patterns: Amazon uses more than 20 machine learning models to plan route designs, clarify customer delivery notes, and identify address attributes (e.g., road entry points or building outlines).
Why It’s Important:
Scot Hamilton, vice president for last-mile delivery routing and planning technology at Amazon, explained: “Cyber Monday is our Super Bowl, and we’ve been training for months. AI systems are meant to be something you don’t see or feel, but they’re as critical as oxygen. When you don’t realize it’s there, that means it’s working perfectly.”
As Amazon implements AI systems throughout the customer journey to streamline efficiency, users will continue to receive products at convenient rates.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
📋Lean Canvas AI is a business plan template generator for entrepreneurs to deconstruct their ideas into key assumptions.
🗺MapDeduce analyzes and processes complex documents.
🏀HoopsAI offers real-time trading insights and analysis for retail investors.
⚙️Supermanage is a Slack extension that captures relevant channel content you need to know before meetings.
🦎Quizgecko automatically generates questions for online quizzes, tests, and exams.
💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
Dataminr, the $4B big data startup, is laying off 20% of staff today as it prepares to double down on AI.
Pika, which builds AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M.
Lightspeed is leading a $35M Series A funding round for Pika to redesign the video creation and editing experience.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Fiddler (Palo Alto, CA): Machine Learning Engineer
Anyscale (San Francisco, CA): Compliance Manager
Hugging Face (Remote): Machine Learning Intern, Alignment
🤖PROMPT OF THE DAY
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