It was recently reported that Venezuela started using AI avatars to also spread propaganda. I guess this is our new reality.
In the Venezuelan case, the government contracted the startup Synethesia to create news cast videos using American AI avatars that talk about how well the Venezuelan economy was doing, and also promoting tourist spots. They posted the videos to Youtube under the "House of News" channel but I believe they've been taken down by now.
I can only imagine what's going to happen here in the US leading up to the 2024 election. There's no regulation on AI right now. The best we can all do is stay informed.

I'm a principal engineer at a tech company and truly in my entire career have never seen any technology get integrated as quickly as AI is right now. Just think in the last few weeks, you have SnapChat, Discord, Spotify, Shopify, Duolingo, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce with Slack, etc. all wrapping OpenAI.

Because of all the hype, I became obsessed with discerning real value and opportunities from the noise / hype around it, and started writing an email that gets published weekdays at 6:30 AM EST called GPT Road . It summarizes the latest news in AI in bullet point format so its easy to read. Please feel welcomed to join if you or anyone else is interested. There's no ads, as I'm not making nay money off of it. And its a small community, not 10,000+ people (only about ~360 readers).

The objective is to keep people who are interested informed in the latest updates in AI, because the tech is being dropped so quickly on society, and there's absolutely no regulation around it. Truly mind blowing.

I think AI Ethics teams are going to become increasingly more important to protect companies against lawsuits out the kazoo, although it's weird that Microsoft laid off their Ethics and Society team (however from what I read, they still have an “Office of Responsible AI”, which creates rules to govern the company’s AI initiatives).

Bloomberg law published a piece last week that discussed how 79% of companies leverage AI in some way during the hiring process. The whole point of the article was that there's more regulatory pressure on the horizon for auditing this and other forms of AI, especially in Europe and NYC.

From that article, I found an agency that audits algorithms. I suspect businesses of this nature to grow, just like SEO agencies did a while back.

Also last week, the US Chamber of Commerce published a "report" that called for policy makers to establish a regulatory framework for responsible and ethical AI. Some of the key takeaways were the following:

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>The development of AI and the introduction of AI-based systems are growing exponentially. Over the next 10 to 20 years, virtually every business and government agency will use AI. This will have a profound impact on society, the economy, and national security.
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>Policy leaders must undertake initiatives to develop thoughtful laws and rules for the development of responsible AI and its ethical deployment.
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>A failure to regulate AI will harm the economy, potentially diminish individual rights, and constrain the development and introduction of beneficial technologies.
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>The United States, through its technological advantages, well-developed system of individual rights, advanced legal system, and interlocking alliances with democracies, is uniquely situated to lead this effort.
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>The United States needs to act to ensure future economic growth, provide for a competitive workforce, maintain a competitive position in a global economy, and provide for our future national security needs.
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>Policies to promote responsible AI must be a top priority for this and future administrations and Congresses.

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In summary, I think that tech companies will have some in-house AI Ethics team that works with external auditors, and tries to remain in compliance with regulations.

I'm currently a principal SWE at a tech company, but I think my job will be outsourced to AI within the next 5 years, so I've started to vigorously keep up with AI news.

I even started an email list called GPT Road (publish updates in AI weekdays at 6:30 AM EST) to keep myself and others up to date. If you or anyone reading this post is interested, please feel free to join. I don't make any money from it, and there's no ads. It's just a hobby but I do my best (its streamlined and in bullet point form, so quick to read). There's only ~320 subscribers so small community.

Right now I’m just writing updates. But every publication includes a new tool or code snippet. I just started last week so its evolving. Next week I’m going to add more AI tutorial videos to my YouTube channel that will run through how to use langchain to wire up different tools together and use them with an LLM for some application. I’m thinking I’ll do a lot of small tutorials in Jupyter Notebooks and push them to a public repo on GitHub, then include links to the script I’m referencing in the engineering section of the email I send out. I have to poll my audience first to see if that’s something they’re interested in first. I think it would be though…

I've used React-Speech before in a project to test mental-math arithmetic. For example my project would show a card with an addition/subtraction or multiplication/division problem, and the user's job was to speak the answer outloud. Using this library I was able to capture the user's answer as text and could check whether or not they got it correct. Would something like this work for whatever you're trying to do?

I publish a newsletter weekdays at 6:30 AM EST called GPTRoad.

It's not ML-powered yet, but its geared towards SWE interested in ML. Every letter has info about new research that was published, tooling, and different libraries (langchain, gpt-index, pinecone, promptify, etc.) It also covers general news updates. It's short (should take ~ 3 min to read, its bullet-point formatted.

I'm a SWE (former Amazonian) interested in building projects that use AI, so I figured I should version control all my research for other SWEs as they onboard into the new era. I have about 100 subs right now.

Isn't this what Bing is doing out of the box? Same with the browser Opera (they're releasing a new feature called the "Shorten" button which internally calls OpenAI. I'd expect Google to release this as part of Chrome as well.