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‘AI in the News’ of the day:
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
Food for thought:
- Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
- Most AI avatars look female, young and attractive. Are they a passing trend or here to stay?
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-ai-avatars-look-female-young-and-attractive-are-they-passing-trend-or-here-stay
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
Food for thought:
- Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
- Most AI avatars look female, young and attractive. Are they a passing trend or here to stay?
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-ai-avatars-look-female-young-and-attractive-are-they-passing-trend-or-here-stay