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🚨 Week’s Update 🚨

Welcome back to your weekly summary of the latest news on AI. This week, we have interesting news from OpenAI, the future of espionage, and more.

A few days ago, OpenAI announced it had ‘disrupted’ several tries by many accounts from China, Russia, or Israel, among others, to use ChatGPT to generate and spread misinformation to influence society.

OpenAI did claim that even though these happened, they didn’t seem to have an effect, signaling that the risks these models offer to date are extremely overstated.

However, OpenAI’s week was not exempt from controversy, as a group of ex-OpenAI and Google Deepmind researchers wrote an open letter to demand that people inside those companies are allowed to speak up about the dangers of what they are building and guarantee that those claims aren’t met with retaliation from the aforementioned companies.

It seems that OpenAI’s clauses that prevented researchers from speaking against the company even after leaving it, or risking their stake in the company, has really had a damaging effect on the company’s reputation, even among top researchers.

Continuing on the negative spree, Andrew Ng, probably one of the five most respected AI scientists in the world, has written a rather concerning letter against the upcoming SB-1047 California regulation, claiming that “it sets an unreasonable “hazardous capability” designation that may make builders of large AI models potentially liable,” something that will “stifle AI model builders, especially open-source developers.“

If Andrew speaks, you listen, period.

I’ve talked many times how big tech corporations are trying to frighten us into believing AI is so dangerous that only a handful of “touched by God” people should be able to control them and the rest should simply obey.

While they know the public debate is a losing case for them as everyone is so pro-open-source, they seem to be lobbying governments into enforcing regulatory capture, with bills like this one.

This tweet really puts into perspective what’s at stake.

Moving on, while most AI companies are engulfed in some controversy, NVIDIA is in an eternal ‘champagne and caviar’ fest. Yesterday, the company finally overtook Apple to become the second most valuable company in the world. The company’s value has almost tripled since January 1st.

The AI giant has grown at a compounded rate of 16.4% per month since January, meaning it will overtake Microsoft as the most valuable company in the world by market cap way before the end of the month if growth doesn’t falter.

On Sunday we talked about the question whether AI was in a bubble or not. Well, here’s…

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