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🤖 OpenAI Removes Head of AI Safety
PLUS: Google’s New AI-Powered Weather and Climate System, The Path to General-Purpose Robots
James Roesser
July 24, 2024
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In today’s AI Report:
🦺OpenAI Removes Head of AI Safety
🌂Google’s New AI-Powered Weather and Climate System
🦾The Path to General-Purpose Robots
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🦺OpenAI Removes Head of AI Safety
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OpenAI removed AI Safety Leader executive Aleksander Madry and reassigned him to focus on AI reasoning.
Key Details:
Madry was OpenAI’s head of preparedness, a team “tasked with tracking, evaluating, forecasting, and helping protect against catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.”
He’s also the Director of MIT’s Center for Deployment Machine Learning (CDML) and a faculty co-lead of the MIT AI Policy Forum.
Five U.S. Senators recently sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding details about the company’s AI safety efforts.
The letter requests OpenAI to make its next foundational AI model available to U.S. Government agencies for review, analysis, and deployment testing.
Why It’s Important:
With allegations of rushed safety testing, disbanding the Superalignment Team, and preventing employees from having a “Right to Warn,” OpenAI is plagued with mounting safety concerns and controversies.
The public is increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of AI advancements. If AI companies demonstrated a commitment to safety and ethical development through their employees, it could help build public trust.
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GOOGLE RESEARCH
🌂Google’s New AI-Powered Weather and Climate System
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Google Research introduced “Neural GCM,” an AI model that can rapidly, efficiently, and accurately simulate Earth’s atmosphere.
Key Details:
Neural General Circulation Models for Weather and Climate (“Neural GCM”) combines traditional physics-based frameworks with Machine Learning (ML) and Neural Networks (NNs) for improved simulation accuracy and efficiency.
This approach generates up to 15-day weather forecasts and reproduces temperatures over a past 40-year period more accurately than traditional atmospheric systems.
“Neural GCM” is 100,000 times more efficient and less computationally expensive than existing weather and climate forecasting methods.
Why It’s Important:
Imagine trying to predict the weather accurately days or even weeks in advance. It’s a complex task involving countless variables, such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
Traditionally, this has been done using complex mathematical frameworks called Global Circulation Models (GCMs).
“Neural GCM” combines the accuracy of traditional GCMs with the speed and efficiency of AI models.
AI RESEARCH
🦾The Path to General-Purpose Robots
Investment firm Coatue, with over $70 billion of managed assets, released a comprehensive report on the current state and future prospects of AI applications in general-purpose robots.
Coatue argues that robotics won’t experience a sudden “ChatGPT-Like” moment because of restricting factors such as physical constraints to adoption, high upfront costs of ownership, and the ecosystem’s infancy.
Instead, Coatue believes we’ll each gradually experience our own “Robot-Like” moment as general-purpose robots transition from warehouses to complex societal roles, such as firefighting, surgery, and in-home assistance.
As with AI models, Coatue expects robotics to benefit from accelerating research, accessible compute, and available capital. However, data scarcity, supply chain constraints, and hardware limitations will pose challenges.
The comprehensive report predicts that AI developments and dataset quality, rather than hardware progress, will be the differentiators for general-purpose robots.
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