#49: Google AI Ads, Microsoft AI Copilots, Cities and Schools Embrace AI, Top VC’s Best AI Resources, Fake AI Pentagon Explosion Picture, and NVIDIA’s Stock Soars

Google Introduces AI-Powered Ads Google just announced new AI
features within Google Ads, from landing page summarizations to
generative AI helping with relevant and effective keywords,
headlines, descriptions, images, and other assets for your
campaign. Microsoft Rolls Out AI Copilots and AI Plugins Two years
ago, Microsoft rolled out its first AI “copilot,” and this year,
Microsoft introduced other copilots across core products and
services, including AI-powered chat in Bing, Microsoft 365 Copilot,
and others across products like Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft
Security. Cities and Schools Embrace Generative AI We see some very
encouraging action from schools and cities regarding generative AI.
According to Wired, New York City Schools have announced they will
reverse their ban on ChatGPT and generative AI. Additionally, the
City of Boston's chief information officer sent guidelines to every
city official encouraging them to start using generative AI to
understand its potential. AI Resources from Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz recently shared a curated list of resources,
their “AI Canon,” they’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI.
It includes papers, blog posts, courses, and guides that have had
an outsized impact on the field over the past several years.
DeepMind’s AI Risk Early Warning System In DeepMind’s latest paper,
they introduce a framework for evaluating novel threats–misleading
statements, biased decisions, or repeating copyrighted
content–co-authored with colleagues from a number of universities
and organizations. OpenAI’s Thoughts on the Governance of
Superintelligence Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever
recently published their thoughts on the governance of
superintelligence. They say that proactivity and mitigating risk
are critical, alongside special treatment and coordination of
superintelligence.  White House Takes New Steps to Advance
Responsible AI Last week, the Biden-Harris Administration announced
new efforts that “will advance the research, development, and
deployment of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) that
protects individuals’ rights and safety and delivers results for
the American people.” This includes an updated roadmap and a new
report on the risks and opportunities related to AI in education.
Fake Image of Pentagon Explosion Causes Dip in the Stock Market A
fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon was
shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts on Monday, causing
confusion and leading to a brief dip in the stock market. Based on
the actions and reactions of the day, are we unprepared for this
technology? Meta’s Massively Multilingual Speech Project Meta
announces their Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project,
combining self-supervised learning, a new dataset that provides
labeled data for over 1,100 languages and unlabeled data for nearly
4,000 languages, as well as publicly sharing models and code so
that others in the research community can build upon Meta’s work.
More Funding Rounds Anthropic raised $450 million in Series C
funding. Figure Raises $70M Series A to accelerate robot
development, fund manufacturing, design an end-to-end AI data
engine, and drive commercial progress. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has
raised $115 million in a Series C funding round for Worldcoin which
aims to distribute a crypto token to people "just for being a
unique individual." NVIDIA Stock Soars on historic earnings report
Nvidia’s stock blew past already-high expectations last Wednesday
in its earnings report. Dependency on Nvidia is so widespread that
Big Tech companies have been working on developing their own
competing chips, much like Apple spent years developing its own
chips so it could avoid having to rely on — and pay — other
companies to outfit its devices.