Digital mental health tools like therapy bots are gaining popularity during the pandemic, but deregulation has led to unproven and potentially harmful tools.: Despite their potential benefits, digital mental health tools need greater regulation to ensure they're safe, effective, and equitable for all.
As we navigate through the pandemic and the increasing acceptance of telemedicine, digital mental health tools like therapy bots are gaining popularity. However, the deregulation of these tools has led to the proliferation of unproven and potentially harmful digital mental health tools. A study in Nature Digital Medicine found that only a small percentage of mental health apps cited scientific literature to back up their claims, and even those that have been deemed effective, the studies are inconclusive. The use of chatbots should not replace therapists entirely, but they may help with scalability and provide some relief for patients when they can't meet with therapists in person. At the same time, there are ongoing efforts to address racial bias and push back against the use of facial recognition technology, particularly in cities with large black populations like Detroit, where residents have been fighting against the expansion of facial recognition services since 2017. These developments highlight the need for greater regulation and oversight in the digital mental health and facial recognition industries to ensure that these technologies are safe, effective, and equitable for all.
Discussions on racial and gender bias, wrongful arrests, and lack of reduction in crime rates in facial recognition technology use: The use of facial recognition technology in surveillance systems raises concerns about bias, wrongful arrests, and lack of crime reduction. Activists call for community input and oppose biased technology. Researchers recommend decolonial theory, recognizing power dynamics, and addressing data inequality and sovereignty to reform AI industry.
The use of facial recognition technology in surveillance systems raises significant concerns regarding racial and gender bias, wrongful arrests, and lack of reduction in crime rates. Activists are advocating for community input in government surveillance and opposing the use of racist technology. A recent study by researchers from Google's DeepMind and Oxford University recommends incorporating decolonial theory to reform the AI industry, recognizing power dynamics to avoid perpetuating harms, and addressing issues of data inequality and sovereignty. These discussions highlight the need for equitable use and deployment of AI systems, recognizing power imbalances and their impact on regulatory norms and standards.
Synthetic media for corporate training videos: Amid COVID-19 restrictions, companies use synthetic media for personalized, language-specific training videos. WPP is an example, using Synesthesia for AI concept explanations. Synesthesia has ethical guidelines, including consent and avoiding political material.
As COVID-19 restrictions continue to impact video production, companies are increasingly turning to synthetic media for their training videos. Advertising giant WPP is a recent example, using London startup Synesthesia to create personalized synthetic videos for their employees. These videos feature a presenter speaking in the recipient's language and addressing them by name while explaining AI concepts. Synesthesia, which specializes in synthetic media, has ethical guidelines in place, including requiring formal consent before synthesizing someone's appearance and avoiding political material. As synthetic media becomes more mainstream in corporations, we can expect to see more stories like this one. This trend raises interesting questions about the future of video production and the ethical implications of synthetic media. Stay tuned for more news and insights on these topics. If you enjoyed this podcast, please remember to rate and share it. For more news like this, visit skynotoday.com.
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- (00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation
- (00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
- (00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5
- (00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
- (01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense
- (01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs
- (01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports
- (01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report
- (01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
- (01:44:59) Outro + AI Song
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Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
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Timestamps + links:
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- (00:00:41) Pre News Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
- (00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
- (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
- (00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
- (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
- (00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
- (00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’
- (00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say
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- (00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster
- (00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal
- (00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos
- (00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
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- (01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
- (01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
- (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
- (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
- (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
- (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (02:02:05) Outro + AI Song
#173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court
Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public
- (00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal
- (00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch
- (00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
- (00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates
- (00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research
- (00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims
- Applications & Business
- (00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
- (00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions
- (00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face
- (00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera
- (00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board
- (00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak
- (00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation
- (00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations
- (00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair
- Research & Advancements
- (00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
- (01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter
- (01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies
- (01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas
- (01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization
- Policy & Safety
- (01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water
- (01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls
- (01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
- (01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program
- (01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity
- (01:47:57) Outro
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