🇪🇺 Policy Thoughts in the EU AI Act Implementation 🇪🇺
There is a lot to like in the first draft of the EU GPAI Code of Practice, especially as regards transparency requirements. The Systemic Risks part, on the other hand, is concerning for both smaller developers and for external stakeholders.
I wrote more on this topic ahead of the next draft. TLDR: more attention to immediate large-scale risks and to collaborative solutions supported by evidence can help everyone - as long as developers disclose sufficient information about their design choices and deployment contexts.
This is no Woodstock AI but will be fun nonetheless haha. I’ll be hosting a live workshop with team members next week about the Enterprise Hugging Face hub.
1,000 spots available first-come first serve with some surprises during the stream!
If you want a clear understanding of the environmental impacts of AI throughout its entire lifecycle, this primer by @sasha@brunatrevelin and @meg is a must-read.
It brilliantly explains which types of impacts occur, when they happen, and why they matter.
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick - "In its continued effort to paint itself as a more ethical, transparent AI vendor, Anthropic has published the system prompts for its latest models" - They specify that “Claude cannot open URLs, links, or videos, perform facial recognition or identify or name any humans in photos. - "Anthropic is exerting pressure on competitors to publish the same. We’ll have to see if the gambit works." https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/
China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions (paywall) - "Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu had combined capital expenditure of Rmb50bn ($7bn) in the first half, compared with Rmb23bn a year earlier. TikTok parent ByteDance (which is private) has also increased AI-related spending" - Nvidia's H100 and upcoming Blackwell series are under US restrictions, but China’s tech giants can buy H20 - Analysts expect Nvidia to ship more than 1mn of the processors to Chinese tech groups in the coming months. https://www.ft.com/content/31bffc48-2ca7-472b-9d53-3deaad2d86ce
MZ "said it was improper for the Biden administration to have pressured Facebook to censor content in 2021 related to the coronavirus pandemic" - "At the time, Facebook’s publicly stated goal was to push millions of people toward Covid-19 vaccines. In his letter, Zuckerberg didn’t indicate whether he had changed his mind about that goal" https://www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-neutral-politics-letter-election-2024-02b86372