Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic will be the founding members of the Frontier Model Forum, an umbrella group for the generative AI industry. The group plans to focus on safety research, as well as the identification of best practices, public policy, and use cases for the rapidly advancing technology that can benefit society as a whole.
According to a statement issued by the four companies Wednesday, the Forum will offer membership to organizations that design and develop large-scale generative AI tools and platforms that push the boundaries of what’s currently possible in the field. — Read More
Daily Archives: July 27, 2023
The movement to limit face recognition tech might finally get a win
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. If it fails, it’ll be a blow to a once-promising movement.
Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding high. By the end of 2020, around 18 cities had enacted laws forbidding the police from adopting the technology. US lawmakers proposed a pause on the federal government’s use of the tech.
In the years since, that effort has slowed to a halt.
… However, in Massachusetts there is hope for those who want to restrict police access to face recognition. The state’s lawmakers are currently thrashing out a bipartisan state bill that seeks to limit police use of the technology. Although it’s not a full ban, it would mean that only state police could use it, not all law enforcement agencies. — Read More
No More Paperwork? Amazon AI Tool Transcribes Patient Visits for Doctors
Amazon’s AWS division today unveiled a new AI and speech-recogition tool intended to help doctors enter patient visit notes into their systems.
For now, AWS HealthScribe is only available as a preview in Northern Virginia (home of Amazon HQ2). But it promises to generate transcripts with “word-level timestamps” of patient visits, and automatically “identifies speaker roles, like patient and clinician, for each dialogue in the transcript,” Amazon says. — Read More
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