Focus AI - The latest AI news in just 3 minutes.
Edition #97 - May 13th 2022
If you like FocusAI, share the word:
This week, four articles :
🐘 Google trains a 540 billion parameter language model
🕊 Examining business practices can make AI ethics guidelines more effective
⚖️ The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data.
🩻 AI Enters the Radiology Department in EU
🐘 Google trains a 540 billion parameter language model - and it's pretty smart
Google has trained a large language model named Pathways Language Model (PaLM). PaLM weighs in at 540 billion parameters (that'd be 10bn more parameters than Microsoft/NVIDIA's 'Turing NLG') and was trained on multiple TPU v4 pods. PaLM is also efficient, achieving a training efficiency of 57.8% hardware FLOPs utilization "the highest yet achieved for LLMs at this scale".
Language models are basically a new sub-field of AI, and papers like this show how, despite being expensive and resource-intensive, simply scaling them up can lead to quite profound jumps in capability.
🕊 Examining business practices can make AI ethics guidelines more effective
What does AI ethics really mean? A new research paper looks at 47 sets of AI ethics guidelines coming from corporations, government, multi-stakeholder dialogues, and civil society to figure out what gets prioritized in AI ethics.
The paper analyzes AI ethics failures, such as “ethics shopping” where businesses choose particular ethical things to implement to meet particular business goals, and also cases where they don't implement stuff.
⚖️ The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. agency in charge of consumer protection, ruled that an app developed by WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) violated data-collection laws. In a settlement, the company agreed to pay a fine, destroy data, and deactivate the app, the tech-news website Protocol reported.
If the public is to trust the AI community, it’s necessary to respect privacy and obtain permission for any data that goes into building a model. If the FTC’s willingness to prosecute developers of unruly algorithms provides further incentive, so be it.
🩻 AI Enters the Radiology Department in EU
The European Union approved for clinical use an AI system that recognizes normal chest X-rays.
ChestLink is the first autonomous computer vision system to earn the European Economic Area’s CE mark for medical devices, which certifies that products meet government requirements for health and safety. The mark enables Oxipit, the Lithuanian startup that makes the system, to deploy it in the 27 E.U. countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Reading X-ray images is highly subjective. Moreover, a radiologist’s judgment can vary as fatigue sets in over the course of a working day. By identifying and reporting on normal images, this system could help radiologists focus on the cases that need the most attention.
#Google #Palm #Ethics #Oxipit
A big thanks to our sources: https://jack-clark.net/, https://www.actuia.com/, https://thevariable.com/news/, https://techcrunch.com/, https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/
What about you? Have you noticed something else?
Don’t miss the next news!
Have a good week-end,
Verónica 🐕, Maxime 🙃 from Toulouse, France with 🌺