Five Things AI: EU Regulation, Understanding AI, Free Data Workers, Human Language, Beatles

Everybody is doing AI now. Read this to understand what's going on.

Just a quick glance at the headlines can make you dizzy these days. Everybody is trying to get into the AI game as quickly as possible and even Oracle is enjoying its time in the spotlight as CEO Larry Ellison becomes richer than ever due to a quick jump in the company’s stock price related to their outlook on AI. Mark Zuckerberg wants to make sure that AI can be used on Insta and other platforms soon, allowing users to manipulate photos more than ever. At the same time people fear for their jobs and companies hope to find new ways to optimize their processes and cut jobs. And healthcare experts assume that in just a few years time major drug developments will be done because of AI, helping to solve major health issues people suffer from right now. AI is speeding up lots of different developments at the same time.

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Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.

While Sam Altman traveled the world and talked to regulators, the EU parliament came up with the first piece of legislation aimed to regulate AI. Obviously, this would not only have an impact on us Europeans, but also on the rest of the world. So far the responses are mostly positive, as the new law intends to keep a lot of flexibility while ensuring that the possible harmful outcome of AI is being limited.

Four different ways of understanding AI — and its risks

We will need to discuss this topic a lot in the next couple of decades and always recalibrate our thinking about AI and its possible negative or positive effects. As AI continues to rapidly develop, so needs our thinking about AI.

We are all AI’s free data workers

It’s good to remind ourselves that the data that ChatGPT and other AI systems are based upon is essentially what we all provided as collective information on the web, in books and elsewhere.

The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You Think

“ChatGPT forces us to consider an age-old question anew: How much of our language is really ours?” - AI really imposes new and interesting questions.

The Beatles will release a final record, using John Lennon's voice via an AI assist

Synthetic voice is still a pretty new concept for most people and this final record will create lots of attention, but pretty soon we will be surrounded by the familiar voices of our favorite actors and we won’t be able to distinguish between the real and the synthetic voice anymore. Brave new world?

That’s it for this week in Five Things AI - I hope you enjoyed it and it maybe even made you a bit smarter!

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