AI Forum: Elon Musk Warns of "Civilizational Risk" 💥

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US Senators and tech leaders meet to discuss future AI regulations. European defense AI Startup gets massive funding. Let’s get into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• AI Forum: Elon Musk Warns of "Civilizational Risk" 💥

• Big News in European AI - Helsing Raises $223M 💰

• AI Research: RETFound identifies eye diseases and Parkinson’s risk

• Trending AI Tool of the day: Research your competitors with Opinly.ai

• AI Tutorial👓: Make ChatGPT write like you

• AI Image of the day🎨: Pseudomnesia: The Electrician

AI News

AI REGULATIONS

AI Forum: Elon Musk Warns of "Civilizational Risk"

A private AI summit with senators and tech execs was held last wednesday 13th. Here are the key details about the meeting:

• Musk warned the group that AI poses a "civilizational risk" to humanity. He said we need to be "proactive rather than reactive" in regulating AI given the severe consequences if things go wrong.

• Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and OpenAI's Sam Altman also attended the closed-door forum. Senators from both parties organized the event.

• Musk endorsed creating a new federal AI agency to oversee the technology. Other execs agreed government must play a role in regulating AI.

• There were disagreements on how exactly AI should be regulated. Some called for more high-skilled immigration to boost AI talent in the U.S.

You can find more details about the meeting here.

HELSING

Big News in European AI - Helsing Raises $223M

Helsing, a leading defense AI startup, has raised a massive $223 million in a Series B funding. This is a huge milestone for European AI startups and makes Helsing likely the largest European AI company.

Some key details :

• The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with Spotify founder Daniel Ek's firm “Prima Materia” also participating.

• Company’s valuation now is over $1.7 billion

This funding builds on Helsing's previous $114 million Series A last year, also backed by Ek. The company is using AI to modernize defense and national security capabilities, with a focus on boosting efficiency.

AI RESEARCH

New AI system can detect eye disease and Parkinson's risk from retinal images

Researchers have developed an exciting new AI tool called RETFound that analyzes retinal images to identify various eye diseases and even predict systemic health risks like Parkinson's.

Details:

• It was developed using a method known as self-supervised learning, a method similar to the one used to train large-language models such as ChatGPT.

• In tests, it was highly accurate at identifying diabetic retinopathy and performed better than other AI models at assessing risk of systematic diseases like stroke, Parkinson’s, heart attacks and heart failure.

• The researchers have made RETFound publicly available for others to build on. It could be tailored for local populations and settings around the world.

The ability to leverage vast unlabeled data sets to develop adaptable AI models like RETFound represents an exciting advancement.

You can learn more about this research here

Trending AI Tool

Research the competition with Opinly.ai

This AI tool allows you to:

• Dive deep into competitor reviews on Youtube and gain pinpoint insights with high precision

• Streamline market research

• Extraction of valuable information, including Problems, Feature Requests, Positive Features, Negative Features, and a Conclusion from video reviews and comments

You can find more information and try it for free here

AI Tutorial

ChatGPT Prompt: Make ChatGPT write like you

Prompt: [Insert Text]  Write about (insert text topic) as the above author would write.

With this prompt ChatGPT mimics writing style based on the writing sample provided

AI Image of the day

Today’s AI image won the creative open category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2023, although the author refused to receive the award. You can read more about this peculiar story here

Source: @boriseldagsen on Instagram

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