🦾 Sutskever starts his own AI company

ALSO: AI can predict diseases and crime

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Most AI companies don’t care for safety or regulations. They’re all about progress, control and profit. This has led to a lot of safety concerns from employees and members, including ex-OpenAI board member Ilya Sutskever, who left the company and is officially starting his own.

• 🤖 Ilya Sutskever is starting his own AI company

• 🤝 Meta partners with Apple to bring AI features

• 👀 Amazon is using AI to spy on UK train riders.

• 🤯 AI can find Parkinson’s years before onset

🤖 Ilya Sutskever is starting his own AI company

What happened: Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, has created his own AI company called Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) with a focus on safety first.

The details: 

• The “mission” for the company is achieving safe super-intelligence. Basically the very things he left OpenAI over.

• SSI is a for-profit company, but it will focus on safety over short term commercial profit.

• Job Alert: SSI is actively hiring technical talent for its offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

• Other cofounders include Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.

• In case you missed it, Sutskever is an ex-OpenAI board member and founder. He disagreed with the company’s direction, specifically concerning safety and profit-chasing. He is rumored to have been a key player in ousting Sam Altman last year.

Why it matters: More competition is always a good thing in the AI space. Only a few big companies control all of AI right now, and few of them give a lick for safety. But while it’s great SSI is focused on safety, it won’t stop unsafe companies from creating a mess if things go out of hand.

🤑 OpenAI just bought multiple companies. Rockset, which builds tools to drive real-time search and data analytics; and Multi, a startup developing an enterprise video collaboration platform. Basically OpenAI is investing heavily into enterprise solutions, which is bound to become a massive money-pot for AI companies.

👀 Amazon scanned the faces of thousands of UK train passengers without them knowing. The purpose was to scan facial emotions and predict travelers’ age, gender, and emotions, potentially for future advertising use. And yes… predicting crime. Geez, pretty soon we’ll have actual thought crimes. The cameras used Amazon’s AI powered Rekognition system.

🤝 Meta partners with Apple to bring AI features

What happened: Apple is supposedly in talks with Meta to bring their AI features to their Apple Intelligence suite of AI options.

The details:

• Reportedly Apple is working with Meta to bring more AI features to their devices.

• The features are currently unknown. Apple and Meta have neither confirmed or denied anything.

• Apple recently announced their partnership with ChatGPT to bring AI features to Apple devices. This is basically the same.

• (Apple Intelligence is the name of Apple’s suite of AI features across Macs, iPhones, and iPads. They announced the core features recently.)

Additional News:

• Meta recently had trouble with the EU. Their plan was to train their AI on data from EU users. The DPC and ICO requested Meta to halt its plans until their concerns are addressed.

• Meta intended to use public content on Facebook and Instagram for AI training, including comments, interactions, status updates, photos, and captions.

• Apple is also offering AI training for all Apple Developer Academy students to teach them how to build, train and deploy machine learning models across Apple’s own devices. Smooth move to get ahead of the competition.

Why it matters: One of the big concerns with a monopoly is the partnerships between them strengthening their control over the industry. With Apple securing partnerships with Meta and OpenAI, the strength of each company goes up and makes it harder for newcomers to gain a foothold. On another note; the new AI features will probably concern social media interactions.

🤯 AI can find Parkinson’s years before onset

What happened: Researchers have developed an AI-powered blood test that can predict Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear.

The details: 

• Scientists at UCL and the University of Göttingen created an algorithm to identify a pattern of eight blood proteins in Parkinson’s patients.

• The test successfully predicted future Parkinson’s in multiple other patients, including one case over seven years before symptoms began. (The tech should be even better now.)

• The test can be run on equipment already in most major NHS facilities and, if validated, the test could be ready for real life application in two years.

Why this matters: This is awesome news! Predicting a disease before it begins allows for early treatment and prevention. Of all of AI’s improvements to our lives, creating new medical breakthroughs is the best of all.

🌳 Shadow of the Erdtree!

Source: Midjourney

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