Focus AI - Edition #99
#Google #Axon #Engie #DeepMind
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Edition #99 - June 24th 2022
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This week, three articles :
🌞 Are you alive?
🔫 Weapons are down thanks to Ethics
💨 Wind in the Forecast
🌞 Are you alive?
A chatbot persuaded at least one person that it has feelings.
A senior engineer at Google announced his belief that the company’s latest conversational language model is sentient. Google put the engineer on administrative leave.
Is there anybody in there? LaMDA is a family of transformer-based models, pretrained to reproduce 1.56 trillion words of dialog, that range in size from 2 billion to 137 billion parameters. Google previously discussed plans to incorporate it into products like Search and Assistant.
Many members of the AI community expressed skepticism of Lemoine’s claims via social media. Melanie Mitchell, professor at the Santa Fe Institute, said, “It's been known for forever that humans are predisposed to anthropomorphize even with only the shallowest of signals…Google engineers are human too, and not immune.”
🔫 Weapons are down thanks to Ethics
A weaponized AI system intended to protect students has been grounded.
Axon, which makes law-enforcement equipment such as tasers and body cameras, canceled a plan to sell remote-controlled drones capable of firing electroshock darts to incapacitate attackers at schools, businesses, and other public places. The company, which had announced the taser drone in early June, shelved it days later after the majority of its independent ethics board resigned in protest.
Technological countermeasures are appealing in the face of repeated attacks on schools, workplaces, hospitals, and other public spaces. However, research argues against increased security in favor of better safety regulations. Axon should have consulted its ethics committee before announcing the product, but it did the right thing by canceling it afterward.
💨 Wind in the Forecast
Machine learning is making wind power more predictable. Engie SA, a multinational energy utility based in France, is the first customer for an AI-powered tool from Google that predicts the energy output of wind farms, Bloomberg reported. The company plans to deploy the system on 13 wind farms in Germany.
DeepMind trained a neural network to predict energy output from wind farms up to 36 hours ahead of time. The training data included historical weather forecasts and unspecified data from wind turbines.
Engie will use the system to predict how much energy will be available to sell to electricity providers in coming days.
#Google #Axon #Engie #DeepMind
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