5 key charts to understand AI’s impact

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good data visualization is worth millions.

And we’ve got some incredible visualizations lined up for you today that chart the rise of AI over the last decade.

Enough words, we’ll let the pictures do the talking. Let’s dive right in.

 TODAY’S MENU

• The Big Insight: 5 key charts to get smarter about AI

• 5 AI tools to supercharge your productivity

• Governance and Policy: America’s chipmaking efforts, AI for the poor, $20m White House AI Hackathon

• Tutorial: Create 3D isometric buildings

• Research: Political bias in language models

• AI-Generated Images: Famous soccer players as musicians

TODAY IN AI & TECH  

• Fission Chips: A significant breakthrough in nuclear fission as researchers produce net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time.

• Concerning: A new report slams generative AI tools for producing content that enables eating disorders.

• Slacktastic: Slack is rolling out its biggest ever design update to help users stay on top of work chaos.

• The Allied Front: The UK considers following the US’ lead in banning tech investments in China.

• Big Byte: Leading Chinese tech firms put in mega $5 billion order for Nvidia AI chips.

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THE BIG INSIGHT

5 key charts to understand AI better

AI coding assistants have more than doubled the productivity of software engineers

That number could go up to an astonishing 10x by 2023.

AI is crossing the threshold for human performance across multiple domains

Domains include: handwriting, speech, and image recognition, reading comprehension, and language understanding.

AI image generation capabilities have seen immense leaps in performance over the last year

The amount of computing power required to train AI models has gone up exponentially since 2010

Governments are increasingly looking to regulate AI, with developed economies leading the way

Bonus: A compressed Timeline of AI Progress

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GOVERNANCE AND POLICY

The most significant developments in AI policy and governance

Biden orders ban on certain US tech investments in China

President Biden signed an executive order restricting new U.S. investments in China in sensitive technologies, targeting semiconductors, quantum tech, and AI. The move aims to prevent aiding China's military modernization, sparking concerns from China and mixed reactions in the U.S. Implementation is expected next year. Read more → 

America’s chipmaking efforts

As the CHIPS Act turns one, American chipmakers, accounting for a third of global semiconductor revenues, have mixed feelings. The $50bn package aimed to bring advanced chip manufacturing back to the U.S., but leading-edge chips are still not produced domestically, raising concerns in Washington. Read more → 

Artificial Intelligence for the poor 

This article discusses how AI can be harnessed in developing countries. Unlike wealthy nations where AI may replace jobs, in poorer regions, AI offers opportunities to enhance areas like credit access, education, and healthcare. Read more → 

The ghost of privacy past haunts the Senate’s AI future

The U.S. Senate is debating AI privacy reform, with divisions between those fearing innovation restrictions and others seeking regulation and safeguards. Read more → (requires Wired subscription)

Google, OpenAI team up with the White House for cybersecurity challenge

The Biden administration, in collaboration with AI companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, has announced the "AI Cyber Challenge” to develop systems to identify and fix software vulnerabilities, offering $20 million in prizes. Read more →

AI TUTORIAL

How to create 3D isometric buildings with Midjourney

Try the prompt below:

modern, isometric blender 3D model, Burj Khalifa Dubai [or building of your choice], MMORPG structure, sculpted details, dark Background --style raw

NOTABLE RESEARCH

Political bias in language models

The paper investigates political biases in language models, focusing on their impact on hate speech and misinformation detection. It explores how biases in pre-training data affect fairness in high-stakes social tasks, revealing political leanings that reinforce polarization, and proposes directions to mitigate unfairness in Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Read the full paper →

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Famous soccer players as musicians

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Zain

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