Britain's MI6 using AI

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• 🤩Meta releases Llama 2 to compete with ChatGPT

• 🐎China says AI shouldn't become a "runaway horse"

• 😵Britain’s MI6 uses AI to disrupt weapons flow

• 💁‍♂️11 amazing AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👨‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom

Meta introduces a new AI model to help developers create better chatbots

☕News - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 18 that Meta and Microsoft are collaborating to make the next generation of Meta's AI large language model, Llama 2, available for free for academic and commercial research.

Llama 2 is designed to help developers and organizations create generative AI-powered tools and experiences. It will be available on AWS, Azure, and Hugging Face.

🤔What are the key differences between Meta's Llama 2 and Llama?

• Token size: Llama 2 has been trained on two trillion tokens, while Llama (its predecessor) was trained on 1.4 trillion tokens. The more tokens a language model is trained on, the better it is at generating text.

• Chat capabilities: Llama 2 comes in two flavors, Llama 2 and Llama 2-Chat. The latter is a version that has been fine-tuned for two-way conversations. This means that it can have more natural and engaging conversations with people, unlike Llama.

• Availability: Llama 2 has been released as open-source. That is, its source code will be available to the public for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute while Llama’s was not. It was only available to researchers and developers who requested access.

China supports the UN Security Council’s leading role in regulating AI

📰News - At the United Nations Security Council's first meeting on artificial intelligence, China's UN ambassador Zhang Jun said that Beijing supports a central coordinating role for the UN in establishing guiding principles for AI.

He further described AI as a “double-edged sword.” Zhang asserted that AI should be used to improve people's lives and to solve global problems, such as climate change and poverty.

🎃What’s more? The ambassador warned that AI should not become a "runaway horse." This means that AI should be regulated to ensure that it is used for good and that it does not pose a threat to international peace and security.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who chaired the meeting under London’s July presidency of the body, said AI will “fundamentally alter every aspect of human life.”

Russia, on the other hand, raised the question of whether the UN Security Council, which is responsible for maintaining international peace and security, should be discussing artificial intelligence.

British intelligence agency uses AI to stop arms flowing to Russia

📻News - The head of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency, Richard Moore, said Wednesday that his agency is using artificial intelligence to disrupt the flow of weapons to Russia.

Moore stated that MI6 is using AI to identify and track shipments of weapons, target smugglers, and disrupt supply chains. He also revealed that AI was working as a "vital tool" in the fight against Russia.

🤖What were the important points he discussed?

• Moore said that MI6 is increasingly focused on tracking the malign use of AI by hostile states. As per him, these states “are using AI in damaging, reckless, and unethical ways.”

• According to him, AI will not replace the need for human spies, but it will play an increasingly important role in intelligence gathering.

• Moore believes that the "human factor" will remain crucial in an era of rapidly evolving machine learning.

🤨What else is happening?

• Japan needs computing power surge to stay in AI race, says govt adviser

• Microsoft to charge more for AI in office, secure Bing from leaks

• Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books

• OpenAI donates $5 million to the American Journalism project

• Neura Robotics raises $55M to expand in cognitive robotics

🎲AI-based games

• Minecraft - A sandbox game where players can build anything they can imagine. The game uses AI to generate the world and to create the mobs that players encounter. The AI also helps to manage the game world, such as by spawning new resources and removing old ones.

• FIFA Series - A sports game series that uses AI to control the other players on the field. The AI will try to play realistically, but will also make mistakes, which can give the player an advantage. The AI also helps to keep the games challenging and exciting, as players never know who will win.

• Total War Series - A strategy game series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time battles. The game uses AI to control the other factions, who will try to compete with the player for territory and resources.

 🤯Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. Dreamy Paws - A tool that creates customized art of pets using AI

2. Botsy Gifts - Helps users find gift ideas based on their loved one's social media accounts

3. AtFirst - Offers daily affirmations to guide and empower users on their journey of self-discovery

4. Llama2 by Meta - An open-source large language model developed by Meta, available for both research and commercial use

5. MagicSchool.ai - Designed to assist educators in various tasks, such as lesson planning, differentiating instruction

6. Receipt AI - A receipt management tool that allows users to text their receipts instead of using traditional methods

7. Abridge - Helps doctors and patients improve their healthcare conversations

8. Homestyler - Offers a range of tools and features for interior design, home renovation, and real estate

9. Promotee - Helps SaaS founders with their Reddit marketing efforts

10. Thing Translator - Allows users to use their phone's camera to translate physical objects from one language to another

11. Typeboss - It is a user-friendly AI copywriting tool, powered by OpenAI's GPT 3.5 model

🤩Historic moments

• 1997: Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer, defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the sixth and final game of the match. This was a significant event, as it marked the first time that a computer had beaten a reigning world champion at chess.

• 2000: The Nomad robot, developed by Carnegie Mellon University, became the first robot to discover a meteorite in Antarctica. Nomad was equipped with a variety of sensors that allowed it to identify rocks that were likely to be meteorites.

• 2009: Netflix announced that BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos team had won its $1 million prize for creating a machine learning algorithm that could beat Netflix's own recommendation engine at predicting ratings from customers.