CriticGPT, Regulations, & AI Doctors

1/ Connecticut's AI Revolution

Connecticut is about to launch the nation's first Citizens AI Academy. Imagine a treasure trove of free online classes, all about AI, right at your fingertips. It's like Hogwarts for the digital age, minus the owl post.

This initiative isn't just neat - it's groundbreaking. By throwing open the doors to AI education, Connecticut is giving everyone a chance to understand the latest AI tools and breakthroughs.

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2/ Singularity is Upon us?

Remember Ray Kurzweil, the American computer scientist with a knack for predicting the future? Well, he's at it again! Kurzweil's been shouting from the rooftops about the Singularity - that mind-bending moment when computers catch up to human intelligence and decide to merge with us. And guess what? He thinks it's coming in 2029!

But wait, there's more! Kurzweil's now hinting it could happen even sooner. Before you dismiss this as sci-fi babble, remember: this guy predicted our current LLM boom two decades ago. So, maybe it's time to start preparing for our new robot overlords?

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3/ OpenAI releases CriticGPT

Found any errors or hallucinations in ChatGPT’s outputs? OpenAI has trained a model called CriticGPT to catch errors in ChatGPT’s code output.

It works precisely as intended- according to OpenAI’s analysis, when people get help from CriticGPT to review ChatGPT outperform those without help 60% of the time.

This falls under the category of RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). RLHF and data labelling will be very important for these models because as they improve, the mistakes become more and more subtle. Finding errors in output will become an art.

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4/ Eureka Health Launches first AI Doctor

It’s already approved by official boards, and it focuses on endocrine conditions like thyroid health and diabetes.

It is wonderful progress in the field of AI, and many similar fields will get their AI professionals very soon.

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5/ YC’s Battle Against Ineffective Regulation

YC & Startups battle against governmental regulation. Sen. Scott Weiner proposed a bill that would require LLMs to undergo safety testing.

The issue with this is- at least in the short term, this would thwart innovation and fast iteration from startups. And so YC and Garry Tan put out a strong statement, stating “This bill, as it stands, could gravely harm California’s ability to retain its AI talent and remain the location of choice for AI companies”.

It’s true- India tried to impose a similar regulation, and then pulled back on it. In the land of AI startups, expect push-back on excess AI regulation.