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Today we will discuss-

• 🚶‍♂️Sam Altman returns to OpenAI

• 😥EU collaboration with Chinese military on AI sparks concerns

• ©️Japan to tackle AI copyright challenges in new draft

• 😱9 fantastic AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

OpenAI welcomes Altman back as CEO, announces new board and voice feature update 

♨️News - On 22 November, OpenAI announced on X that Sam Altman will be returning to the AI startup as CEO. This decision comes in the wake of considerable pressure from OpenAI's employees and investors, following Altman's removal by the board less than a week ago.

OpenAI's new initial board will see former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, with Taylor taking on the role of board chair. Meanwhile, Adam D'Angelo, co-founder and CEO of Quora, will remain on the board.

😀What's more? In a separate post on X, Altman shared that he looks forward to returning to OpenAI with the backing of the new board and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's support. He also highlighted his commitment to strengthen the company's partnership with Microsoft upon his return. 

In his X post, Nadella praised the changes made by OpenAI to its board, calling it a crucial first step towards more stable and effective governance. 

Furthermore, Greg Brockman, a member of OpenAI's founding team and the first to quit in solidarity after Altman was fired, also announced his return to the organization, expressing his intention to resume coding.

On a side note, OpenAI has now made ChatGPT's voice feature accessible to all users – another development worthy of celebration.

EU works with Chinese military on AI research despite growing tensions

☕News - European academics are collaborating with Chinese counterparts on controversial AI research in fields such as biometric surveillance, cybersecurity, and the military, according to a recent analysis. 

😯Why is this problematic? The collaboration between European academics and Chinese military-linked institutions on over ten thousand AI papers, addressing sensitive topics like drone targeting, automatic ethnicity recognition, and online censorship, raised concerns about the ethical implications and potential risks associated with such research. Especially due to escalating tensions with Beijing over human rights, technological competition, and the military threat to Taiwan. 

🤨Has the EU done nothing to stop this? While Commission president Ursula von der Leyen took a stance earlier this year against technology cooperation benefiting China's military, the recent report suggests that there has been limited action taken to prevent this collaboration.

Moreover, collaborations were documented as recently as 2022, focusing on topics such as drone target tracking and missile guidance. Furthermore, findings of a collaboration between researchers at Germany's Bundeswehr University Munich and a People’s Liberation Army university were recently published. The research focused on using AI to build automatic targeting systems. 

It is worth noting that among the papers that disclosed their sources, 60% were funded directly by the Chinese government.

Japan's cultural agency takes steps to address copyright concerns in AI era

📜News - Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed a draft outline highlighting key considerations regarding copyright issues around generative AI. 

This document has been formally submitted to a subcommittee within the Cultural Council for review. The agency's goal is to reach an agreement on what actions are considered unfair to copyright holders under the Copyright Law in the coming months.

🕵️‍♂️What are some of the key points they are looking to agree on?

• The first thing they're aiming to agree on is how to determine if an AI-generated work is violating copyright when it looks like an existing copyrighted work.

• Next, in cases of copyright infringement, how much can the use of the work be restricted through requests for bans and other measures. 

• Finally, how clear do the instructions for AI need to be for its created work to count as copyrighted.

Here it is important to note that when the Copyright Law was amended in 2018, Article 30-4 was introduced, permitting the use of copyrighted works for training AI without requiring permission from the rights holders.

⭐Why is this important? This move is significant as it comes in the face of major tech companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft facing copyright claims from artists and authors. This is because the generative AI models of these companies have been trained on copyrighted works and have been seen to produce responses that bear a striking similarity.

👩🏼‍💻What else is happening?

• US agency streamlines probes related to artificial intelligence

• Australia to force social media companies to crack down on ‘emerging harms’ of AI deep fakes and hate speech

• Anthropic's Claude 2.1 release improves language model competitiveness

• Baidu sees limited impact from U.S. chip curbs after Q3 revenue beat

• Hyundai opens new AI factory with robot dogs and on-site farm

🎼AI life hacks

• Use AI-generated music to enhance your creative projects - AI-powered tools like MuseNet and AIVA can generate original music and sound effects, perfect for adding depth and emotion to your videos, presentations, and other creative projects.

• Leverage AI-powered travel planning tools - AI-powered travel planning tools, such as Kayak and Hopper, can help you find the best deals on flights, hotels, and rental cars, and plan your itinerary based on your preferences.

• AI-powered shopping tools - Make use of AI-powered shopping tools, such as Google Shopping and Amazon Product Finder. These sites can help you compare prices, find the best deals, and discover new products.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. LulBot - A creative AI bot that can transform ideas into stunning images

2.  goHeather - An AI-powered contract review software that helps users understand the terms and potential risks in their contracts

3. Larry the Elf - A tool that assists users in finding gifts for various recipients, such as children, friends, or spouses

4. Ankara AI - An app that uses AI to generate narrations for videos

5. Medisearch - An AI-powered tool that provides quick and accurate answers to health and bioscience questions

6. Rapli - A tool that uses AI to generate rap songs based on stories or topics provided by the user

7. What Font Is - A tool that allows users to find any font from any image

8. Ask an AI Accountant - A tool that helps people with their tax questions by using the latest US tax laws

9. GPTinf - A tool designed to rephrase AI-generated content to bypass detection by AI plagiarism detectors

🕰️Historic moments 

• 1993 - Author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge published an article that popularized the idea of singularity. It is considered a point at which machines become smarter than humans. Well, this hasn’t happened yet.

• 2003 - AI scientist Yoshua Bengio and his team developed the first feed-forward neural network language model. This predicted the next word when given a sequence of words.

• 2012 - Google launched an Android app feature "Google now", which was able to provide information to the user as a prediction.