The AI Canvas Newsletter #8
AI Updates: Bletchley's first AI Safety Summit, Musk's Grok chatbot, Stability AI's Sky Replacer & Stable 3D.
The AI Canvas Newsletter #8
The AI Canvas: Your weekly palette of inspiration, insights, and innovation in the world of AI.
- 🌐 World's First AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park
- 🤖 Elon Musk Unveils Grok: A New Challenger in the AI Chatbot Arena
- 📸 Stability AI's Latest Innovations: Sky Replacer, Stable 3D, and FineTuning Previews
Written by Oli Wilkins.
World's First AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park
Leaders from 27 countries and top AI companies, including Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, convened at Bletchley Park for the first-ever AI Safety Summit. While there was no shared global agreement on AI regulations, it marked a significant step towards international collaboration, with the "Bletchley Declaration" signed by 28 countries, acknowledging the risks AI poses and the responsibility to ensure its safe usety. Discussions revolved around AI risks, near-term and long-term, and the debate between open-source and closed-source AI research. The event signifies a pivotal moment in shaping the future of AI technology.
Find out more on the AI Safety Summit website and a roundup from the BBC.
Elon Musk Unveils Grok: A New Challenger in the AI Chatbot Arena
xAI recently announced Grok, an AI model inspired by the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, designed to offer witty responses and provide real-time knowledge through the X platform. It's still in early beta but showcases promising improvements in reasoning and coding capabilities, surpassing benchmarks of other language models within its class (ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1). The article details xAI's mission in building Grok-1, the engine behind Grok, their research directions, the technology stack used for its development, and offers a chance for limited early access in the United States for user feedback and improvement.
Read more here.
Stability AI's Latest Innovations: Sky Replacer, Stable 3D, and FineTuning Previews
Stability AI introduces exciting enhancements, including Sky Replacer, allowing users to transform the sky in photos effortlessly, Stable 3D for simplified 3D object creation, and Stable FineTuning for fast picture customisation. These innovations empower professionals across various industries, offering convenience and quality.
Read more here.
Posts and Projects
“A starter kit to build local-only AI apps that cost $0 to run -- starting with document Q&A. Written in Javascript”
Dario Amodei’s prepared remarks from the AI Safety Summit on Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy – Antropic
“The most important thing to understand about AI is how quickly it is moving. A few years ago, AI systems could barely string together a coherent sentence. Today they can pass medical exams, write poetry, and tell jokes. This rapid progress is ultimately driven by the amount of available computation, which is growing by 8x per year and is unlikely to slow down in the next few years”
Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach To AI Transparency
“We identify and characterize the emerging area of representation engineering (RepE), an approach to enhancing the transparency of AI systems that draws on insights from cognitive neuroscience. RepE places representations, rather than neurons or circuits, at the center of analysis, equipping us with novel methods for monitoring and manipulating high-level cognitive phenomena in deep neural networks (DNNs). We provide baselines and an initial analysis of RepE techniques, showing that they offer simple yet effective solutions for improving our understanding and control of large language models. We showcase how these methods can provide traction on a wide range of safety-relevant problems, including honesty, harmlessness, power-seeking, and more, demonstrating the promise of top-down transparency research. We hope that this work catalyzes further exploration of RepE and fosters advancements in the transparency and safety of AI systems.”
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, Superhuman Alignment, New Architectures – Dwarkesh Patel
“I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind!"
Trends
YouGov recently released the results of a survey containing the opinions of 2086 adults in the UK on AI.
“AI is one of the most powerful technologies of our time. President Biden has been clear that we must take bold action to harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of AI. The Biden-Harris Administration has acted decisively to protect safety and rights in the age of AI, so that everyone can benefit from the promise of AI.”
Unprecedented £225m investment to create UK's most powerful supercomputer in Bristol
“The funding injection, part of a £300m package to create a new national Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (AIRR) for the country announced at the government's AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, will make the UK a world leader in AI.”
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