Warning: How Is AI Safety Being Addressed?

Open AI has released their approach to AI safety and alignment. Have other companies started to think about this?

AI is now capable of narrating sporting events and AI robots continue to progress. Let’s take a look at these topics and more.

AI Safety

For humanity's future, AI alignment and safety are essential. The past 6 months and even over the past few weeks we have seen AI continue to advance at a rapid pace. The next 6-12 months show no signs of slowing down with money and resources continuing to be poured into this sector. But what about AI alignment and safety? Have we stopped to consider this further?

Open AI has started the conversation by releasing their plan on how to safely use and build AI. The 5 key points are Respecting Privacy, Child Safety, Factual Accuracy, Continuous Research and Real World Training. Here are a few takeaways from each point.

Respecting Privacy

“Our large language models are trained on a broad corpus of text that includes publicly available, licensed content and content generated by human reviewers. We don’t use data for selling our service, ads, or building profiles of people”

Child Safety

“We require that people must be 18 or older - or 13 or older with parental approval - to use our AI tools. We do not permit our technology to be used to generate hateful, harrassing, violent or adult content among other categories. Our latest model GPT-4 is 82% less likely to respond to requests for disallowed content.”

Factual Accuracy

“By leveraging user feedback on ChatGPT outputs that were flagged as incorrect as a main source of data-we have improved the factual accuracy of GPT-4. GPT-4 is 40% more likely to produce factual content than GPT 3.5.”

Continuous Research and Engagement

“Addressing safety issues also requires extensive debate, experimentation, and engagement, including on the bounds of AI system behavior. We have and will continue to foster collaboration and open dialogue among stakeholders and create a safe AI ecosystem.”

Real World Training

“Crucially, we believe that society must have time to update and adjust to increasingly capable AI, and that everyone who is affected by this technology should have a significant say in how AI develops further.”

AI Generated Sports Narration

Over the weekend in Augusta, Georgia one of the most famous golf events took place, The Masters. Over 80+ golfers compete in the event and it is nationally broadcast in the US. With their being so many golfers and a short amount of air time on TV commentators can’t talk about each individual golfer and breakdown each of their shots. However, AI now can. With the help of IBM Watson the Master’s App allowed you to follow your favorite golfer around the course, see each of their shots and have it all narrated for you by AI. Here is the link to see a clip from the Masters App.

AI Robots

In our previous newsletter we broke down companies working on AI robots. However, there is another company out of England called Engineered Arts. Their AI robot, Ameca, is not just a development tool, it’s a cutting-edge integration of the latest technology that’s built to last. Check out their latest video showing Ameca speak and translate different languages in a matter of moments.