AI bioweapon fear escalates

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Today we will discuss-

• 👨‍🚒Senators raise concerns about AI bioweapons

• 🤴🏼Microsoft aims to be the top cloud provider for AI

• 🤵🏼 4 AI giants unite to address advanced AI models' risks

• 🤩11 amazing AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom

AI could make biological weapons easier to create, lawmakers warn

🕵🏼‍♂️News - On Tuesday, senators from both parties expressed concerns about the potential for artificial intelligence to be used to create biological weapons.

In a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dario Amodei, chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, warned lawmakers that AI could enable unskilled bad actors to develop biological weapons.

As per him, some of the knowledge needed to produce biological weapons is not publicly available and requires specialized expertise. However, AI tools can now fill in some of those gaps.

👨🏼‍⚖️What did the Subcommittee chair Richard Blumenthal say?

• He cited the warnings of experts who have said that AI could be used to create weapons that could lead to human extinction.

• Blumenthal stated that the goal of the hearing was to lay the groundwork for legislation that would act as a safeguard against the threat.

• He wanted the hearing to focus on concrete ideas that could be turned into legislation.

Microsoft is leading the sale of cloud-based AI services, CEO says

👨🏼‍🎨News - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday that his company was the top provider of cloud-based AI services.

Nadella revealed that Microsoft's Azure AI services were growing quickly and that he expects the company to win more market share in the near future.

👨🏼‍💼What more did he say about Azure?

• Nadella further stated that Azure AI services were used by companies of all sizes and that they are being used to power a variety of applications, including chatbots, machine translation, and natural language processing.

• Microsoft is also weaving Azure AI services into its own software, including Bing and Windows.

The revenue potential of Microsoft's Azure AI services, particularly those that rely on OpenAI's technologies, is still unclear.

Leading AI companies come together to address the dangers of powerful AI models

👩🏼‍🚀News - Four leading AI companies have formed a coalition to address the risks of frontier AI. These are advanced AI and machine learning models that are deemed dangerous enough to pose "severe risks to public safety."

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic have announced the Frontier Model Forum, a new industry body that will develop technical evaluations and benchmarks, and promote best practices and standards for the development and use of advanced AI models.

👩🏼‍🎓What are the self-stated goals of this forum?

• The forum will focus on reducing the risks of frontier models, ensuring that they are evaluated and used safely.

• It will also identify best practices for the responsible development and deployment of frontier models, and help the public understand these models.

• The body will collaborate with policymakers, academics, civil society, and other companies to share knowledge about trust and safety risks.

• It will also support efforts to develop applications that can help meet society's greatest challenges.

👩🏼‍💻What else is happening?

• Spotify CEO teases potential AI-powered capabilities surrounding personalization, ads

• Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike

• China’s military AI advances likely to raise the risk of US conflict, could yield ‘revolutionary’ changes: report

• SK Hynix's revenue beats expectations as AI drives memory demand

• Alibaba's cloud unit brings Meta's AI model Llama to its clients

 🤖AI-based games

• Alien: Isolation - It is a survival horror game set in the Alien universe. You play as Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother on the space station Sevastopol. The game is praised for its atmosphere, suspense, and faithful recreation of the Alien universe.

• Halo: Combat Evolved - It is a first-person shooter game where you play as Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier. The game's AI is used to create a sense of atmosphere and immersion, making you feel like you are actually in the game world.

• Rocket League - A vehicular soccer game where you control rocket-powered cars to hit a ball into the opponent's goal. Here, AI has been used to create challenging and intelligent opponents, as well as to provide training tools for players.

 😵Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. OppenheimerGPT - A MacOS menubar app that allows users to access both chatGPT and Bard simultaneously

2. ToDo.is - An AI-powered task management app that helps users stay organized and productive

3. Zarla - An AI-powered website builder that helps users create beautiful websites in seconds

4. Papertalk - An AI-powered platform that simplifies the understanding of research papers

5. Abacus.AI - A data science platform that enables the building and deployment of applied AI at scale

6. Hexometer - A website monitoring tool that works 24/7 to detect and resolve issues before they impact businesses

7. Siwalu - AI-based animal recognition apps, including Dog Scanner, Cat Scanner, and Horse Scanner

8. Chord ai - Uses AI technology to provide chords, beats, and other musical information for any song

9. Wade and Wendy - A platform that provides a personal career guide and assistance for job seekers

10. Snack Prompt - Enhances your ChatGPT experience by providing a wide range of curated prompts

11. MonkeyLearn - A no-code text analytics platform that helps businesses quickly analyze customer feedback

🎃Historic moments

• 1998: American toy manufacturer Tiger Electronics released Furby, a talking stuffed animal that was the first relatively simplistic AI to achieve widespread commercial success. Furby introduced children and their mothers to the concept of machine learning.

• 2002: Torch, an open-source machine learning library, was released. It provided data scientists with a wide range of algorithms to use freely, similar to GitHub.

• 2017: An AI-powered bot developed by OpenAI defeated professional Dota 2 player Dendi during a demonstration at The International Dota 2 Tournament. This marked a significant milestone in the development of artificial intelligence, as it showed that AI can now compete at a high level in complex games.