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RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS IN AI
Intel, INSAIT, Linux Foundation, ML Commons, MOC
Alliance (operated by Boston University and Harvard
University), NASA, NSF, Oracle, Partnership on AI, Red
Hat, Sony Group, Stability AI, University of California,
Berkeley University of Illinois, University of Notre Dame,
University of Tokyo and Yale University.
The Alliance aims to empower a wide spectrum of
AI researchers, builders and adopters in order to
encourage collaboration and information sharing,
recognising the need for open and transparent
innovation.
EU drafts World’s first ‘comprehensive’
Laws on AI The vision of the Alliance includes:
The European Union has struck a provisional • Development of benchmarks and standards -
agreement to enact the world’s first creating and deploying benchmarks, evaluation
comprehensive laws to regulate artificial standards, tools and resources for responsible AI
intelligence. development and use on a global scale.
Proposals have been added to the AI Act that include • Advancement of an ecosystem of open
measures such as critical safeguards for AI usage foundation models - responsibly advancing
within the EU and limitations on its adoption by law diverse modalities in open foundation models,
enforcement agencies. Consumers will also have helping to address global challenges in areas
rights to launch complaints as with GDPR. such as climate and education.
The European Parliament defines AI as ‘software • Enhancement of the AI hardware accelerator
that can generate outputs, such as content or ecosystem - encouraging contributions and
decisions, that influence their environments based adoption of essential software technology for AI
on human-defined objectives’. Generative AI, such hardware accelerators.
as ChatGPT and DALL-E, which learn from vast data
• Supporting global AI skills and research
sets to create human-like content, would come
- engaging the academic community in
under this definition. ChatGPT can engage in text
supporting researchers and students in AI model
conversations, while DALL-E creates images from
and tool research projects.
textual instructions.
• Promotion of safe and beneficial AI
The new legislation is expected to come into force
development - initiating projects that foster
early in 2025.
open and responsible AI development and
[ Reference: McCane, K., Electronic Specifier, 11th. hosting events to explore AI use cases.
December 2023 ]
The AI Alliance aims to establish member-driven
working groups across all major topical areas along
IBM and Meta launch AI Alliance with a governing board and technical oversight
IBM and Meta have jointly launched the AI committee.
Alliance, uniting some 50 founding members and
[ Reference: West, P., Electronic Specifier, 5th.
collaborators from various global sectors. December 2023]
The group includes AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras,
Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell
Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Imperial College London,
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