The US and the UK have refused to sign the Paris AI summit's declaration on "inclusive and sustainable" artificial intelligence, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology. The two countries did not immediately explain their reasons for not adding their names to a document backed by 60 signatories on Tuesday, including China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada. The UK prime minister's official spokesperson said France was one of the UK's closest partners in AI, but the government would "only ever sign up to initiatives that are in UK national interests". But they added that the UK had signed up to the summit's Coalition for Sustainable AI and had backed a statement on cybersecurity. Asked if the UK had declined to sign up because the US had refused to do so, the spokesperson said they were "not aware of the US reasons or position" on the declaration.

The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new partnership on the science of artificial intelligence safety, amid growing concerns about upcoming next-generation versions. The US commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, and British technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington to work jointly to develop advanced AI model testing, following commitments announced at an AI safety summit in Bletchley Park in November. "We all know AI is the defining technology of our generation," Raimondo said. "This partnership will accelerate both of our institutes' work across the full spectrum to address the risks of our national security concerns and the concerns of our broader society." Under the formal partnership, Britain and the United States plan to perform at least one joint testing exercise on a publicly accessible model and are considering exploring personnel exchanges between the institutes.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other companies developing generative AI are continuing to improve their technologies and releasing better and better large language models. In order to create a common approach for independent evaluation on the safety of those models as they come out, the UK and the US governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Together, the UK's AI Safety Institute and its counterpart in the US, which was announced by Vice President Kamala Harris but has yet to begin operations, will develop suites of tests to assess the risks and ensure the safety of "the most advanced AI models." They're planning to share technical knowledge, information and even personnel as part of the partnership, and one of their initial goals seems to be performing a joint testing exercise on a publicly accessible model. UK's science minister Michelle Donelan, who signed the agreement, told The Financial Times that they've "really got to act quickly" because they're expecting a new generation of AI models to come out over the next year.

United States President Joe Biden and United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have opened a White House meeting, hailing ties between the longtime allies as they prepared to discuss a wide range of topics, expected to include artificial intelligence (AI), trade, the war in Ukraine, China and NATO leadership. Sunak's office said the prime minister, on his first White House trip in the role, would present Biden on Thursday with relics of his English ancestry, including a copy of Biden's great-great-grandfather Christopher Biden's book Naval Discipline: Subordination Contrasted with Insubordination. Biden has both Irish and English heritage, and on a trip to Ireland in April described the book by the 19th-century sailor as the Royal Navy's guide to combating mutiny. "We will put our values front and centre to deliver for the British and American peoples," Sunak said at the start of his talks with Biden. Biden, meanwhile, described the "special" relationship between the two allies as "in real good shape".

By 2030, Artificial Intelligence could be looking after our elderly, making films and teaching lessons -- or it could have wiped out the human race. These are the wildly different predictions from eight AI experts from the US and UK, who predict how the technology may change our lives within the next decade. It comes amid growing calls for regulators to put the lid on the development of AI, amid fears that it could lead to waves of job losses and render us obsolete. AI technology could become so good that it will start to generate entire films within a day, predicts New York-based writer of Apple TV Sci-fi series Silo Mr Howey. Speaking to DailyMail.com, he said it was only a matter of time before AI tools were capable of making films. 'I've had access to alpha versions of art generators for a few years now, and I've watched how quickly they go from very rough approximations to photo-realism so good that you can't distinguish the AI art from photography,' he said.

"How the US and other democratic countries address the challenge of Chinese apps like TikTok breaking outside of China has really profound consequences for free speech and the freedom of information globally," said Paul Scherer, author of the book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Google has invited people in the United Kingdom and the United States to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it continues on its gradual path to catch up with the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems or computer code on command and have taken the world by storm as the biggest new thing in tech since the advent of the iPhone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff on Tuesday that after testing Bard with 80,000 Google employees, the chatbot would be tested with the UK and US public as a "first step" before going out to more countries in other languages. "As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they'll surprise us," Pichai said in a memo to staff seen by AFP. But the user feedback is critical to improving the product and the underlying technology," added Pichai, who has faced some criticism within the company for rushing to catch up with Microsoft. In the launch, people wishing to play with Bard can sign onto a waiting list at the bard.google.com "We've learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people," Google vice presidents Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins said in a blog post. As exciting as chatbots can be, they have their faults, Hsiao and Collins cautioned. Google has so far proceeded more carefully in its rollout of generative AI to consumers, in contrast to Microsoft's choice to swiftly make the products available despite reports of problems. ChatGPT's OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, which earlier this year said it would finance the research company to the tune of billions of dollars. Asked by AFP how its product was different from ChatGPT, Bard said that unlike its Microsoft-backed rival, it was "able to access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results." The bot also underlined that it was still "under development, while ChatGPT has been released to the public.

Google's Bard chatbot is launching on Tuesday in the UK and US, as the company completes its dash to release a competitor to Bing Chat and ChatGPT. It is seen as a do-or-die moment for the company, whose profitable web search service risks being outcompeted by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – even if those chatbots currently have problems in consistently returning accurate and useful results. Describing the service as an "experiment", Google's Jack Krawczyk, the product lead for Bard, said the company was "extremely excited … watching how people are using this product in a way that's boosting their creativity. It's helping them accelerate their ideas, and is helping them really fuel their curiosity. "We feel like we've reached the limit of the testing phase of this experiment," Krawczyk added, "and now we want to gradually begin to roll it out.

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According to reports by Axios, the Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness. "We are proud to join our special partner and ally, the United Kingdom, to advance AI innovation for the well-being of our citizens, in line with shared democratic values," eplained Michael Kratsios, U.S. chief technology officer. We know you don't want to miss any news or research breakthroughs. Subscribe to our popular newsletter Synced Global AI Weekly to get weekly AI updates.