Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Security Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches of their supercharged new fashions, Astra and GPT-4o, the timing couldn’t be higher. AI feels hotter than ever.
This 12 months’s EmTech might be all about how we are able to harness the facility of generative AI whereas mitigating its dangers,and the way the expertise will have an effect on the workforce, competitiveness, and democracy. We will even get a sneak peek into the AI labs of Google, OpenAI, Adobe, AWS, and others.
This 12 months’s prime audio system embrace Nick Clegg, the president of world affairs at Meta, who will discuss what the platform intends to do to curb misinformation. In 2024, over 40 nationwide elections will occur all over the world, making it one of the consequential political years in historical past. On the similar time, generative AI has enabled a completely new age of misinformation. And it’s all coalescing, with main shake-ups at social media firms and knowledge platforms. MIT Expertise Overview’s government editor Amy Nordrum will press Clegg on stage about what this all means for democracy.
Listed here are another classes I’m enthusiastic about.
A Peek Inside Google’s plans
Jay Yagnik, a vp and engineering fellow at Google, will share what the historical past of AI can train us about the place the expertise goes subsequent and focus on Google’s imaginative and prescient for harness generative AI.
From the Labs of OpenAI
Srinivas Narayanan, the vp of utilized AI at OpenAI, will share what the corporate has been constructing lately and what’s coming subsequent. In one other session, Connor Holmes, who led work on video-generation AI Sora, will discuss how video-generation fashions might work as world simulators, and what this implies for future AI fashions.
The Usually-Ignored Privateness Issues in AI
Language fashions are vulnerable to leaking non-public knowledge. On this session Patricia Thaine, cofounder and CEO of Non-public AI, will discover strategies that hold secrets and techniques secret and assist organizations keep compliance with privateness laws.
A Phrase Is Value a Thousand Footage
Cynthia Lu, senior director and head of utilized analysis at Adobe, will stroll us by the AI expertise that Adobe is constructing and the moral and authorized implications of generated imagery. I’ve written about Adobe’s efforts to construct generative AI in a non-exploitative manner and the way they’re paying off, so I’ll have an interest to listen to extra about that.