US Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with the CEOs of the four largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies this Thursday as the Biden administration prepares a package of measures to ensure development without risk to people’s safety.
The Democratic government plans to announce a $140 million (about $127 million at current exchange rates) investment to establish seven new AI research institutes, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Furtherthe White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to provide guidance in the coming months on how federal agencies can use AI tools.
There will also be an independent commitment from leading AI developers to participate in a public evaluation of their systems in August at the DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas.
Kamala Harris’ meeting with the chief executives (CEO) of Alphabet (owner of Google), Microsoft, OpenAi (developer of ChatGPT) and Anthropic aims to discuss the risks of the current development of the fundamental models of artificial intelligence.
The message from policymakers to business is that business has a role to play in mitigating risks to people’s safety and rights, and they can work with the Biden administration.
In April, US President Joe Biden said AI could help fight disease and climate change, but it could also destabilize national security and undermine the economy.
The success of the ChatGPT ‘chatbot’ has increased the debate about AI and government’s role in technology, this is because this model of generative AI can generate texts that are confusing as if they were made by humans and can even generate fake images, as well as providing false information and plagiarizing, raising ethical and social concerns.
Launched in late 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT urged competing companies to develop similar projects in a short period of time.
In early February, it was reported that Microsoft’s Bing search engine would include the new version of ChatGPT, after the technology announced an investment of “thousands of millions” of dollars in OpenAI in January.
Four years ago, in 2019, Microsoft had already invested around $1,000 million in the creator of ChatGPT.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research lab founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, among others. Musk left tech administration in 2018.
On February 6, Google launched a new “chatbot” called Bard, similar to ChatGPT.
On March 16, Baidu, the Internet search engine dubbed the “Chinese Google,” introduced its “chatbot” Ernie Bot, which aims to become a strong rival to ChatGPT.
On April 11, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba presented its model of generative AI, called Tongyi Qianwen (in Mandarin, which means something like “the truth, from a thousand questions” ). , according to Efe).
This solution will be available to enterprise customers and developers and will be integrated into Alibaba’s digital ecosystem applications.
Source: DN
