On April 10, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced the “Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (Draft for Comment)”. As the world’s first draft legislation for generative AI, the consultation draft actively responds to new risks and challenges, and comprehensively regulates the research and development and utilization of generative AI to ensure the healthy and orderly development of the generative AI industry. The timely publication of the draft for comments demonstrates China’s governance philosophy of putting people first and paying equal attention to security and development, and reflects the great attention of the cybersecurity and informatization department to content security governance and responsibility distribution. At a time when all kinds of generative AI services are attracting wide attention and thousands of sails are competing for development, it will surely play an important role in building consensus and regulating guidelines. Read More
Daily Archives: May 1, 2023
The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born
Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop.
Then one of the engineers, with no real experience in fertility medicine, used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to position a robotic needle. Eyeing a human egg through a camera, it then moved forward on its own, penetrating the egg and dropping off a single sperm cell. Altogether, the robot was used to fertilize more than a dozen eggs.
The result of the procedures, say the researchers, were healthy embryos—and now two baby girls, who they claim are the first people born after fertilization by a “robot.” Read More
Oh Great, They Put ChatGPT into a Boston Dynamics Robot Dog
We Aren’t Close To Creating A Rapidly Self-Improving AI
When discussing artificial intelligence, a popular topic is recursive self-improvement. The idea in a nutshell: once an AI figures out how to improve its own intelligence, it might be able to bootstrap itself to a god-like intellect, and become so powerful that it could wipe out humanity. This is sometimes called the AI singularity or a superintelligence explosion. Some even speculate that once an AI is sufficiently advanced to begin the bootstrapping process, it will improve far too quickly for us to react, and become unstoppably intelligent in a very short time (usually described as under a year). This is what people refer to as the fast takeoff scenario.
Recent progress in the field has led some people to fear that a fast takeoff might be around the corner. These fears have led to strong reactions; for example, a call for a moratorium on training models larger than GPT-4, in part due to fears that a larger model could spontaneously manifest self-improvement.
However, at the moment, these fears are unfounded. I argue that an AI with the ability to rapidly self-improve (i.e. one that could suddenly develop god-like abilities and threaten humanity) still requires at least one paradigm-changing breakthrough. My argument leverages an inside-view perspective on the specific ways in which progress in AI has manifested over the past decade. Read More
How Smart is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, has become incredibly popular over the past year due to its ability to generate human-like responses in a wide range of circumstances.
In fact, ChatGPT has become so competent, that students are now using it to help them with their homework. This has prompted several U.S. school districts to block devices from accessing the model while on their networks.
So, how smart is ChatGPT?
In a technical report released on March 27, 2023, OpenAI provided a comprehensive brief on its most recent model, known as GPT-4. Included in this report were a set of exam results, which we’ve visualized in the graphic above. Read More
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