Tech Heavy Hitters Join Forces to Form AI Alliance: The Kiplinger Letter
Summary
Here’s the latest… A group of tech heavy hitters is joining forces to boost artificial intelligence with one key goal: a coordinated effort to enhance safety amid the rising fears of AI risk, including misinformation, cyber threats, discrimination and data theft. The recently launched AI Alliance, started by IBM and Facebook owner Meta, brings together government, academia and industry to cooperate on standards, safety, and security. Expect promising work from the group as it promotes open tech standards, which make it easier to persuade software developers to build new apps and tools. Some bans are very broad, such as barring “AI systems that manipulate human behavior to circumvent their free will.” It will take much more commentary from regulators to understand how the rules will work in practice as hefty fines are coming for companies found in violation. The firm’s twist: Its new Gemini model can “understand” a range of inputs from text, computer code, audio, image and video, so the AI chatbot can answer questions, interpret data and more.