US and EU To Launch First-Of-Its-Kind AI Agreement 13
The United States and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid. Reuters reports: A senior U.S. administration official, discussing the initiative shortly before the official announcement, called it the first sweeping AI agreement between the United States and Europe. Previously, agreements on the issue had been limited to specific areas such as enhancing privacy, the official said. AI modeling, which refers to machine-learning algorithms that use data to make logical decisions, could be used to improve the speed and efficiency of government operations and services.
"The magic here is in building joint models (while) leaving data where it is," the senior administration official said. "The U.S. data stays in the U.S. and European data stays there, but we can build a model that talks to the European and the U.S. data because the more data and the more diverse data, the better the model." The initiative will give governments greater access to more detailed and data-rich AI models, leading to more efficient emergency responses and electric grid management, and other benefits, the administration official said. The partnership is currently between just the White House and the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member European Union. The senior administration official said other countries will be invited to join in the coming months.
"The magic here is in building joint models (while) leaving data where it is," the senior administration official said. "The U.S. data stays in the U.S. and European data stays there, but we can build a model that talks to the European and the U.S. data because the more data and the more diverse data, the better the model." The initiative will give governments greater access to more detailed and data-rich AI models, leading to more efficient emergency responses and electric grid management, and other benefits, the administration official said. The partnership is currently between just the White House and the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member European Union. The senior administration official said other countries will be invited to join in the coming months.
CEO Requirements (Score:1)
Note: success in this environment consists of grabbing as much money as is humanly possible at the expense of the employees and the stockholders. It's the Wall Street way.
overhyped (Score:2)
AI is by far the most overhyped technology of 2023.
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new improved propaganda (Score:2)
Re:new improved propaganda (Score:4, Interesting)
will have no effect on agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid.
I don't have first-hand knowledge of the others, but I have worked directly with a startup doing agricultural robots. My nephew is one of the founders.
The robot is about 100 kg (way less than a tractor or combine) that moves down a row of crops using computer vision and machine learning to distinguish weeds from crops.
Herbicides are only applied to the weeds, using only 5% of the chemicals that conventional spraying consumes. Since no herbicide touches the crop, broad-spectrum but environmentally harmless chemicals, such as potassium hydroxide, can be used.
Fertilizer is injected directly into the root zone of the crops, while weeds get none. This not only inhibits weed growth but drastically reduces fertilizer consumption.
These techniques mesh well with no-till farming methods [wikipedia.org] that are reducing erosion and improving yields.
The product is successful, and they are commercializing it. The biggest question is whether they are too late. The market is getting crowded.
Over the next decade, agriculture is going to be revolutionized by AI.
No No No (Score:2)
This is all wrong. You don't use AI to solve problems, you use it to dethrone those damn artist fat cats who claim they're working hard on creating thing, then sell something they "spent days making" for hundreds of dollars. So it can't do fingers and, sometimes, people have an extra spine or leg. It will get better!
Or—Or you use it to replace authors! Yeah, those bastards keep their talents to themselves and don't let anyone else write. It's about time we automated them. So the work is a little deriv
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...triggers plagiarism detectors.
Part of the problem at the moment is that they don't & it's likely that statistical regularities that could be used to detect AI LLM generated texts can be adjusted out by the AI. It looks like it's an arms race that plagiarism detectors can't win.
...the work is a little derivative...
Yes, if you use it for derivative output by giving it poorly thought through, non-specific, generic prompts. Give it context & ask it to take on roles & then you've got something more interesting. Note that there's still expertise involved, this is m
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Sorry it took a while to get back to you, I was actually surprised someone replied to one of my more sarcastic comments.
Cnet recently used an AI to generate articles. Unfortunately for them, out of 77 of the articles over 40 required factual correction (AI do tend to just invent facts when none fit), and an undisclosed amount that they admitted tripped their plagiarism checker. https://www.techcircle.in/2023... [techcircle.in]
Too, companies are now producing software tools to sniff out xGPT generated documents in their own
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The vast majority of us have to make do with works that are derivative, including AI LLMs. Maybe they can come up with some unexpected & novel combinations of features of existing works? BTW, I regularly peruse the Weird Dall-e subredit to see the occasional example of human ingenuity in coming up with prompts to generate impressively weird & w
Never send a human to do a machine's job? (Score:2)
Or maybe
"That's when it stopped being your civilization and became ours"
Quotes from the Matrix were obligatory but this isn't something particularly good.
We are already hitting the limits of representative democracy, in that there isn't enough representation or democracy to go around. Now instead of people whose only real skill is to survive in bureaucracy we will be delegating to AI?
Man talk about not being able to see past your nose.
OR predates AI by decades (Score:2)
What the what? (Score:2)
Physical location is a legal construct. I see no benefit to forcing data to stay inside a specific country beyond legal, and they're proud of agreeing to this artificial limit?
Are people worried about their data being read and used? Yes. This does nothing for that.
Are people worried about models being trained on the wrong data and applied everywhere? Yes. And this does nothing for that.
Let me guess (Score:2)