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🪖 Andrew Ng backs Google’s military pivot
🚨 Our Report — Andrew Ng—renowned AI researcher, investor, and founder (and former leader) of Google Brain, who played a key part in shaping Google’s (and the whole industry’s) AI efforts—is “very glad that Google has changed its stance” and dropped its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons and military use.
🔓 Key Points:
Last week Google deleted a 7-year principle to not build AI that is “likely to cause harm,” justifying its decision by saying companies and governments should work together to build AI that “supports national security.”
Ng applauded this, saying the principle was a self-imposed obstacle to innovation, and also believes there’s a moral argument for allowing the military to use AI, as we can’t not help “service people who are fighting for us.”
He’s also glad that Biden’s AI EO was overturned by Trump, and that the controversial SB 1047 BIll was vetoed as he feels both “would slow down open-source AI development in America.”
🔐 Relevance — Ng’s opinions come as many feel conflicted about the use of AI to support operations and weapon construction, after—alongside Google—OpenAI dropped its own pledge to not develop AI for military use, and partnered with the defense technology company, Anduril, in December, and Anthropic gave data analytics platform, Palantir, access to its Claude models to help US intelligence and defense agencies with their operations.
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🌍 Meta supports underserved cultures
🚨 Our Report — Meta is partnering with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to launch a Language Technology Partner Program, designed to collect speech recordings and transcriptions to help improve speech recognition and translation in AI models.
🔓 Key Points:
The program wants partners to give speech recordings, transcriptions, and translated sentences, in “diverse languages”—and has already enlisted people in Nunavut, in North Canada, who speak Intuit languages.
The partners will integrate their languages into Meta’s AI speech and translation models, to support Meta’s goal of “creating systems that understand human needs, regardless of language or cultural background.”
Alongside this, Meta is also launching BOUQuET, a benchmark system that evaluates the performance of AI language translation models, using sentences created by linguistic experts, in 7 languages.
🔐 Relevance — Although Meta is framing this as a philanthropic initiative, “especially focused on underserved languages, in support of UNESCO’s work,” they will benefit from upgraded speech-recognition and translation models, having previously come under fire for how it handles non-English languages, with 70% of misinformation in Italian and Spanish going unflagged, in comparison to just 29% of misinformation in English, going unflagged.
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👑 ChatGPT Search vs Google: Who wins?
Last week OpenAI gave all users access to its AI-powered search feature–ChatGPT Search—without requiring them to log in, no doubt a powerplay move to rattle the ‘king of the search engines’, Google.
However, studies, so far, have shown that ChatGPT is currently the sixth most visited website in the world, whereas Google has retained its spot, as the first, with a nearly 30% share of website visits.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, commented “still a long way to go to run down Google,” but could the recent release of its “Deep Research” agent, which performs multi-step, deep web research, give it the edge it needs?
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