US regulators on Tuesday took the first action towards drawing up new regulations on artificial intelligence that could see the White House put the halts on new technologies such as ChatGPT. The US Department of Commerce put out a call for input from industry actors that would serve to inform the Biden administration in drafting a regulation on AI. US President Joe Biden last week said the jury is still out on whether AI poses a danger to society, but the action on Tuesday signaled that the White House is open to setting some ground rules. Just as food and cars are not released into the market without proper assurance of safety, so too AI systems should provide assurance to the public, government, and businesses that they are fit for purpose." The United States is home to the biggest developers of tech and AI, including Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which created ChatGPT but trails internationally in holding the industry. Biden has urged Congress to pass laws putting strict limits on big tech, but these have little chance of making headway given political divisions among lawmakers. The lack of rules has given Silicon Valley freedom to put out new products and stoked fears that AI technologies will wreak havoc on society before the government can catch up. Last month, billionaire mogul Elon Musk and a range of CEOs and experts called for a pause in the development of powerful AI. OpenAI has asked that its AI systems be subject to rigorous safety evaluations and said that comprehensive regulation of the sector was needed. Our inquiry will inform policies to support AI audits, risk and safety assessments, certifications, and other tools that can create earned trust in AI systems."

Chinese regulators have proposed restrictive rules around AI models like ChatGPT being built in the country, requiring user identification and security reviews, and prohibiting "any content that subverts state power, advocates the overthrow of the socialist system, incites splitting the country or undermines national unity." The rules come hot on the heels of Chinese tech companies rolling out their versions of general purpose large language models, versatile AI systems that can converse in natural language and carry out a surprising number of tasks. While the reception of SenseTime, Baidu, and Alibaba's models over the last month suggests they're somewhat behind the likes of GPT-4, it's clear the industry there is equally dedicated to developing these capabilities. Unfortunately, shortly after the debut of Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen model, one of the country's tech regulators, the Cyberspace Administration of China, proposed restrictions that may smother relevant innovations -- and the Chinese AI industry's ambitions along with them. The draft rules are not available in English (I took the above quote from the Financial Times translation syndicated at Ars Technica) but can be viewed at the regulator's website here.

Alibaba's announcement of its new AI-powered service, Tongyi Qianwen, is a significant development in the increasingly competitive large language model space. The Chinese multinational conglomerate, which specializes in e-commerce, retail, internet, and technology, plans to eventually roll out the new software across all its platforms. Tongyi Qianwen is a large language model that generates compelling responses to user prompts. The technology was trained on vast troves of data and is designed to be integrated into Alibaba's Tmall Genie smart speakers and workplace messaging platform DingTalk initially. However, the company has plans to add the technology to all its applications, including e-commerce and mapping services.

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In recent months, we have seen the emergence and proliferation of several artificial intelligence systems worldwide, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Google's Bard. Microsoft's new Bing and Baidu's Ernie Bot have also entered the scene. Joining this group of AI systems is a newcomer known as BabyAGI. BabyAGI is an innovative AI platform designed to train and evaluate various AI agents in a simulated environment. The AI is a pared-down version of the original Task-Driven Autonomous Agent developed and launched by VC and AI expert Yohei Nakajima.

Over the last few decades, we've seen how the internet and the smartphone rapidly transformed our lives. Artificial intelligence is now poised to do the same, but some experts are worried that the current pace of its development will cause harm. An open letter signed by hundreds of leaders in the tech world, including Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, and Elon Musk, has proposed pausing the development of any AI past the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4. They expressed concern that AI labs were locked in an "out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control". The Guardian's UK technology editor, Alex Hern, tells Hannah Moore where these concerns come from.

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A group of researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where 25 characters, controlled by ChatGPT and custom code, live out their lives independently with a high degree of realistic behavior. They wrote about their experiment in a preprint academic paper released on Friday. "Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day," write the researchers in their paper, "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior." To pull this off, the researchers relied heavily on a large language model (LLM) for social interaction, specifically the ChatGPT API. In addition, they created an architecture that simulates minds with memories and experiences, then let the agents loose in the world to interact.

SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel teased some of the company's new plans. In detail, Geortzel shared that SingularityNET is aiming to launch projects much smarter than ChatGPT on its network. Furthermore, Goertzel believes that an AI revolution in the blockchain space would transform peoples' perceptions towards crypto. However, Goertzel also shared that it will take a while to launch these projects. "It's going to take a little while, but we know how to do it. We're working on it," he said during an interview with Crypto Influencer Ben "BitBoy Crypto" Armstrong.